Streaming giant Hulu has surpassed 1 million subscribers for its Live TV service. The live streaming service was launched in May 2017 and it offers more than 60 live and cable channels. Packaged at $40 for month, Hulu with Live TV had reached 800,000 subscribers in May. Hulu has more than 20 million overall subscribers …
According to research reports, the British TV production sector has witnessed a boost in content consumption thanks to number of programs commissioned by online video streaming platform such as Amazon Prime and Netflix. Netflix and Amazon Prime have altogether spent a total of £150m last year in the UK. The rapid rise of streaming devices, …
In order to stay relevant in the changing market dimension, Flipkart, the Walmart owned e-commerce giant is currently in talks with video streaming platform Hotstar. If reports are to believed, Flipkart may buy a major stake in Hotstar. The step from Flipkart, however, does not come as a surprise.It has been lagging behind Amazon in …
Global end-to-end service provider for broadcasters and content owners, iKO Media Group has launched its own over-the-top service, iKOFLiX. iKOFLix delivers services such as live streaming, video on demand storage and internet radio to worldwide clients. It allows clients to distribute audio, video and other media services to their customers via streaming media as a …
Swedish streaming giant Spotify along with video streaming service Hulu has added Showtime to its student discount bundle. The deal is an improvement to the previous package which was priced at $4.99 per month. Now, if students subscribe to the bundle instead of subscribing individually to the three services, subscribers will save $25 per month …
Singapore based video-on-demand streaming service HOOQ is looking to double its India investments as it focuses primarily on English premium video content. The recent growth of Indian OTT video market has prompted many VOD platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime to invest on original content. According to research reports, India is expected to be among …
Following Facebook’s footsteps, Twitter is introducing testing audio-only streaming to Periscope on iOS with same plans for Android in the pipeline. The feature will benefit users who are camera-shy and also publishers who do not have the technical setup to live stream video. Video streaming might be the most popular, but audio-only streaming or live …
Online streaming giant Netflix has signed strategic partnership with cable broadband provider Hathway to deliver video streaming services to Hathway’s subscribers in India. Under this deal, Netflix will be offered through Hathway’s set-top box that includes a remote which will allow users to launch streaming service. Rajan Gupta, Managing Director, Hathway quoted, “In this smart …
Australian pay television company, Foxtel has launched its streaming VOD service, Foxflicks. The new video on demand service offers on demand content to existing subscribers through its movies and platinum HD plans with iQ3 and iQ4 boxes. Patrick Delany, CEO, Foxtel quoted, “A new movie every day of the year, and over 1,000 movies to …
Juventus, the Italian football behemoth brings down the curtain on its linear TV channel and has instead decided to go digital following the over-the-top (OTT) trend across the globe. The Turin based club cited disappointing ratings and high production cost to be the reasons to go OTT. Now, the 12-year old channel can be accessed …
