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Amazon Prime, Hulu customers also use Netflix

Amazon Prime and Hulu viewers in the US “almost always” have a Netflix subscription, according to new stats by Hub Entertainment Research. The US research found that 83% of Amazon Prime users, and 93% of Hulu users also use Netflix – the service that claims the lion’s share of SVOD accounts. Some 57% of viewers […]

Amazon and PBS strike kids TV deal

Amazon will show a raft of shows from the PBS Kids service after striking a content deal with the publicly-funded US broadcaster. The streaming service has inked a multiyear deal with PBS Distribution that gives excusive premium rights to titles including Nature Cat (pictured) and Jet Go! As well as continued access to shows such […]

Amazon, Netflix set for Gridiron competition

Amazon is preparing to launch All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals, a factual series following the eponymous NFL team. The launch announcement came days after Amazon’s chief streaming rival Netflix ordered Last Chance U, a series following a the Eastern Mississippi Community College’s Lions college football team, and the SVOD service’s first […]

Amazon poaches HBO comedy exec

Amazon Studios has hired HBO exec Nick Hall to become its head of comedy development. At the production arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, Hall will oversee development of all half-hour comedy, and report to Joe Lewis, head of half-hour TV series. At HBO, he was senior VP, comedy, working within the team of Casey Bloys, […]

Report: Amazon prepares music streaming service

Amazon is reportedly preparing a standalone music streaming service, in a move that promises to further expand its existing entertainment options. According to a Reuters report, the Spotify and Apple Music-rivalling service will cost US$9.99 per month and will likely launch towards the end of summer or early autumn with label deals currently being finalised. […]

Bezos calls for ‘acceptable terms’ from Google, Apple

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has called for “acceptable business terms” for its Prime Video service if the company is to resume selling Chromecast or Apple TV devices. At the Code Conference in California, Bezos responded to a question about why the Amazon store stopped selling the rival devices to its own Amazon Fire TV line […]

Europe confirms Netflix quota

The European Commission has confirmed that it will oblige on-demand services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video to ensure there is at least a 20% share of European content in their catalogues. The EC has also said that EU member states will be able to ask on-demand services to contribute financially to European […]

In-demand charts: Spain (15 – 21 May 2016)

Our latest fortnightly feature in association with Parrot Analytics reveals the most in-demand shows from another European territory. Spain’s most popular digital original is Narcos. The Pablo Escobar-inspired drama was streaming service Netflix’s first big Spanish-language – or more accurately Spanish and English-language – play and its success in Spain is therefore unsurprising. Spanish viewers also love […]

Spotnitz climbs down from High Castle

Frank Spotnitz will no longer be the showrunner of Amazon’s alternative history drama The Man in the High Castle. A spokesperson from Spotnitz’s prodco, Big Light Productions, confirmed the development to TBI after Deadline had broken the news in the US. SVOD service Amazon will not replace Spotnitz, who will remain an executive producer on […]

Euro Netflix quota would have ‘limited effect’

The European Union’s rumoured move to make Netflix comply with a European content quota would have limited effect, according to analysts. News of a rumoured quota applying to SVOD services was first reported in Les Echos yesterday. European Commission vice-president for the digital single market Andrus Ansip told the French newspaper that there needed to […]

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