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Alibaba buys 8% Stake in Chinese VoD Platform Bilibili 18 February 2019

With the growth of the Chinese online video industry, the e-commerce giant, Alibaba has bought 8% share of Bilibili, one of the leading video streaming services in China. Bilibili was included on the US stock exchange list which led Alibaba … Continue reading

Video Streaming Starz Play planning to expand Internationally 11 February 2019

Video streaming service, Starz Play has planned to expand its reach across the international market. To make the streaming service available beyond the MENA region, Starz has decided to grow a stronger integration with Lionsgate. On this integration, the CEO … Continue reading

ESPN+ soaring high with 2 Million+ Subscribers 07 February 2019

Disney-owned streaming service ESPN+ has clocked more than 2 million subscribers in less than a year after the launch. Launched in April 2018, the channel added over 1 million subscribers within September. The huge growth has come in the later … Continue reading

BBC & Discovery to launch SVoD Platform in Partnership: Sources 07 February 2019

The media giants BBC and Discovery are reportedly planning to sign a deal to launch a subscription-based video streaming service. This channel will be streaming contents from the history and wildlife programming libraries of the broadcasters. According to reports, Discovery … Continue reading

Flix Snip partners with Rostelecom to launch Short-Form VoD Service in Russia 06 February 2019

The global video streaming service Flix Snip has collaborated with the National Telecommunications Operator of Russia, Rostelecom, in order to launch a premium short-form content service. Flix Snip has planned to stream around 200 short-length movies at the beginning of … Continue reading

The UK is declining TV Licenses for Video Streaming Services 04 February 2019

A recent report has claimed that around 860,000 Britishers have canceled their costly TV licenses in the last two years because of the popularity of Netflix and the likes. The TV licensing expansion on 798,000 users had stopped from 2016. … Continue reading

Apple to soon launch its Video Streaming Platform 31 January 2019

In the mid of April 2019, Apple will, reportedly, be launching its own video streaming service. In terms of contents, the tech giant will have its own productions along with videos from HBO, Starz etc. Sources have revealed that Apple’s … Continue reading

WeChat planning to step into the OTT World 15 January 2019

WeChat is planning to launch a video streaming service to increase user engagement. The popular OTT messaging platform has decided to do this so that the platform can become livelier. The first step of this launch is adding the video … Continue reading

BBC to launch VoD Service to compete with US Streaming Giants 14 January 2019

The BBC will supposedly be launching video streaming service in collaboration with European public service broadcasters to compete with the US VoD giants such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video etc. In the US, BBC is already streaming British contents with … Continue reading

Canal+ to relaunch their SVOD Service CanalPlay 10 January 2019

CanalPlay, the SVoD service of French pay-TV group Canal+, is planning to relaunch very soon. This time, CanalPlay will focus on documentaries and TV shows to attract more young audience. One can stream their contents with a monthly subscription fee … Continue reading