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Andrew McDonald
Andrew is Contributing Editor at Digital TV Europe. Follow him on Twitter @andy_mc_donald
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Starz Play Arabia preps originals after $125m raise
Starz Play Arabia has raised US$125 million to date after closing a third round of…
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CME sells Nova TV & Pop TV for €230m
CME has agreed to sell its top broadcast operations in Croatia and Slovenia for €230…
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Netflix accounts for 22% of Telenor traffic
Norway-based teleco Telenor has revealed that Netflix now accounts for 22% of all traffic on…
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Ampere: Netflix budget focused on drama and comedy
More than a third of Netflix’s original content spend to-date has been for drama titles,…
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Film1 to replace Sundance channel with on-demand offering
Dutch channel group Film1 has announced plans to replace its Film1 Sundance channel with an…
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NPO revamps and rebrands on-demand service
Dutch public broadcasting organsiation NPO has revamped its on-demand service and rebranded it from Uitzending…
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One in 10 of US homes could buy VR headsets
Some 9% of US broadband households plan to buy a virtual reality headset within the…
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Sky invests $2m in Circle Media Labs
Sky has invested US$2 million in Circle Media Labs, a tech company specialising in connected…
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Antenna Group agrees Viceland distribution deal
Antenna Group has signed a deal with Vice Media to become the exclusive distributor of…
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Awesomeness TV partners with Viaplay for Nordic launch
Awesomeness TV’s series will launch in the Nordic market for the first time following a…
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‘93% of North American pay TV subs use SVOD’
Some 93% of pay TV subscribers in North America also use one of more subscription…
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Ampere: Netflix use just 11% in Turkey
Just 11% of Turkish internet users watched Netflix in the past month, compared to a…
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Mobile ‘accounting for 57% of all video plays’
Mobile viewing accounted for nearly 57% of all video plays worldwide in Q1 2017 marking…
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Altice USA looks to raise $1.35bn in IPO
Cable and telecoms group Altice aims to raise some US$1.35 billion by listing its US…
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Molotov & Arte team for Hellfest coverage
French over-the-top service Molotov has teamed up with public broadcaster Arte to stream coverage of…
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Fullscreen launches on Roku
US over-the-top service, Fullscreen, has launched on Roku streaming devices in the states. Youth-focused Fullscreen,…
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Netflix creates global partnership with Altice
Altice has agreed a multi-year partnership with Netflix to make the SVOD giant’s content available…
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Study: pay TV subs hit 969m in 2016
The global number of pay TV subscribers climbed by 35%between 2010 and 2016, taking the…
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YouView taps Amazon’s Alexa for voice controls
YouView is piloting Amazon’s Alexa voice service in a bid to bring voice controls to…
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A+E agrees data deal with Parrot Analytics
A+E Networks has partnered with Parrot Analytics to get data on country-specific audience interest in…
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IHS: VR content market to hit $3bn
The global virtual reality entertainment market is projected to reach US$3.024 billion in 2021. According…
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PwC: internet video set to overtake DVD revenues
Internet video revenues will overtake physical home video for the first time this year, according…
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Twitch Prime goes global with 200-country launch
Amazon-owned Twitch has rolled out its premium Twitch Prime service globally, launching the service in…
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Turner SVOD arthouse service launches on Roku
Filmstruck, the Turner-owned SVOD dedicated to arthouse, indie, foreign and cult films, has launched on…
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Amazon Prime Video to launch on Apple TV
Amazon Prime Video is due to launch on Apple TV “later this year,” Apple CEO…
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Netflix subs to hit 128m thanks to int’l growth
Netflix’s subscriber count is tipped to reach 128 million by 2022, with the number of…
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Ampere: Saudi web users consume most TV & video
Saudi Arabian internet users watched more TV and video online than people in any other…
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A+E Networks hires UKTV exec
A+E Networks UK has appointed UKTV executive Dom Wilkins as head of scheduling, History UK…
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BT Sport & Snapchat partner for Champions League final
BT Sport is partnering with Snapchat in the UK on social coverage of Saturday’s UEFA…
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BBC First extends Dutch distribution
BBC Worldwide is upping the distribution of BBC First in the Netherlands after agreeing a…