DocuBay, a global subscription-based video streaming platform, dedicated to international documentaries is now set to launch this summer. In its first phase, DocuBay is supposed to be available in India with a distinctive documentary content for Indian audiences. As per the reports, DocuBay has already signed partnership deals with popular documentary creators and distributors for …
Leading pay TV operator Discovery Golf and PGA Tour have introduced a live and on-demand video streaming platform which will allow fans to get access to 150 tournaments annually. The new video streaming platform, GOLFTV will be launched on Jan 1 outside the US territory. GOLFTV is likely to carry more than 2,000 hours of …
Indie distributor Film Movement has launched its own SVOD service, Film Movement Plus. Priced at $7.99 per month, the new subscription on demand service offers 100 short films and 250 acclaimed festival films ad-free. The service also provides 500 hours of curated content and is available on Android and iOS mobile platforms, Roku, Apple TV and …
Spain’s Imira Entertainment has acquired rights to a combined 250 hours of animated programming from French toon studio Xilam Animation. Debuting at NATPE in Miami today are 26x30mins A Kind of Magic, 52x13mins Bali, 270x7mins Oggy & the Cockroaches (pictured) and 195x7mins The Daltons. Imira has Latin American and US Hispanic free TV and VOD rights to …
Canadian subscription on-demand service Shomi has acquired NBC’s big hitter The Blacklist and Daniel Radcliffe-fronted miniseries The Young Doctor’s Notebook & Other Stories. It has already acquired exclusive rights to The CW’s zombie teen drama iZombie and premium shows such as Power and Survivor’s Remorse from Starz and is co-producing a drama with rival SVOD service …
Polish broadcast group TVN has partnered with telecoms provider T-Mobile Polska to jointly launch a new subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service for new and existing T-Mobile residential customers. The SVOD service will be called T-Mobile Zone and willlaunch “in the near future” as part of TVN’s existing video-on-demand Player service. T-Mobile Zone within Player will feature, for the …
Discovery Communications founder John Hendricks has launched a subscription-on-demand service for factual programming named Curiosity Stream. Curiosity Stream also represents the first SVOD service of its size to cater purely for factual viewers. Netflix has sizeable doc and factual catalogue already, however, and commissions original docs and exclusively prebuys other unscripted content. Stop earning in pennies …
