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Zattoo expands to Asia Pacific with Singapore office 27 February 2018
Zattoo TV Solutions has expanded its service in the Asia Pacific Region. Zatto is eyeing a strong and sustainable business in this part of the world while basing out of Singapore. Zattoo has already expanded its business to the US … Continue reading
Lightbox TV to launch VoD platform 26 February 2018
Lightbox TV is all set to launch “Lightbox Movies, a video-on-demand movie service with a pay per view model. It is also expected to launch a tiered service soon which will have a standard and premium subscription. A Transactional Video … Continue reading
Kwese buys “significant stake” in iflix 26 February 2018
Pay-TV provider Kwese acquires a “significant stake” in iflix Africa. Kwese, the Econet Media-owned company which was already in an existing relationship with iflix was a partner in launching Iflix’s SVOD service in sub-Saharan Africa. iflix is currently operating in … Continue reading
Sling TV registers 2.2M Subscribers in 2017 23 February 2018
Dish Network-owned OTT platform Sling TV registered 2.2 million subscribers in 2017. This is for the first time that Dish has disclosed its customer count and also it claimed to have registered 11.03 million customers during the year. The Sling … Continue reading
90% of users prefer to watch online content on mobile:Hotstar report 23 February 2018
Hotstar, the OTT platform of Star India reports that affordable data charges are resulting in promising growth for OTT consumption in mobile with close to 90% of users preferring to watch online content on smartphones, tablets etc. Hotstar report also … Continue reading
CenturyLink brings the curtain down on its OTT TV Beta Service 23 February 2018
In less than one year, CenturyLink is pulling the plug on its online video platform CenturyLink Stream, a national OTT TV service. The video-on-demand platform will officially end effective March 31, 2018. While the online platform is no longer accepting … Continue reading
SVOD subscriptions in the US touch 125 million 23 February 2018
According to reports, although the US consumer spending on SVOD is still just 10% of the total pay TV market, 2018 is going to witness a substantial growth. The growth will be driven by the quicker expansion of a “plethora … Continue reading
Fox News launches own OTT platform Fox Nation 22 February 2018
Fox News is all set to embrace the OTT vibe with its new online video platform Fox Nation. The digital wing of Fox News will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2018. Fox Nation subscribers will have access to … Continue reading
OSN becomes Netflix’s first distribution partner in MENA 22 February 2018
The customers of OSN, the leading regional pay-TV provider in the MENA region soon to have access to the content of the OTT streaming giant Netflix via an upcoming integrated set-top box (STB). In addition to that, the subscribers of … Continue reading
BBCWW inks OTT deal with Migu Video 22 February 2018
BBC Worldwide (BBCWW) has inked a deal with Migu Video, the online video platform of China Mobile’. Through this deal, more than 2200 hours of BBC content will be added to the content catalog of Migu Video. The OTT deal … Continue reading
