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Exclusive: AVOD set to boom with $259bn annual revenue by 2025
AVOD streamers are set to flourish over the next three years and will hit revenues…
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Fremantle expands FAST in UK by striking ‘American Idol’ deal with Samsung
Fremantle is moving further into Free Ad-supported Streaming Television (FAST) in the UK with a…
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Exclusive: Shorts Int’l launches FAST channels with Samsung in Europe
AMC-backed Shorts International is moving into free-to-view ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) by launching a raft…
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News round-up: Atlantic Nomad closes financing deal; Love Nature lands on Samsung TV Plus; Flix Snip partners with Korea Telecom for Asia expansion
Atlantic Nomad closes financing deal Jamie Carmichael and Simon Mirren’s London-and-LA-based production label Atlantic Nomad has closed…
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TikTok moves onto TV following Samsung deal in Europe
Social media giant TikTok is launching its own TV service across Europe after striking a…
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Insight TV enters Australia after expanding AVOD deal with Samsung
High-definition broadcaster and producer Insight TV has struck its first distribution deal in Australia, with…
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TBI Weekly: Six reasons why 2020 has been the year of AVOD
With an unexpected global pandemic and the roll-out of direct-to-consumer streamers from the US studios…
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Endemol Shine launches trio of channels on Samsung’s TV Plus
Endemol Shine Group is launching a raft of channels via Samsung’s TV Plus service. The…
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BT Sport launches new app for Xbox, Samsung TVs, Apple TV
BT has launched a new large-screen BT Sport app for Xbox, Samsung Smart TVs and…
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UK’s Breaking Fourth launches VR series Bro Bots
British virtual reality studio Breaking Fourth has launched a new virtual reality (VR) series, Bro…
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AR and VR investments reach $2.3bn
The amount of money invested last year in virtual and augmented reality companies more than…
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Google launches Daydream VR service
Google has launched its new Daydream View VR headset in five markets, along with Daydream…
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Portuguese operator goes big on 4K
Portugal Telecom has launched a new 4K Ultra HD set-top box and has unveiled plans…
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Naspers ‘preps international SVOD service’
Africa-based media giant Naspers is going to roll out its Showmax SVOD service in a…
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Hasbro titles go digital with MoMedia
Transformers: Rescue Bots and G.I Joe: Renegades will go out through digital and VOD distributor…
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Smart move by Canada’s Crave SVOD
Canadian SVOD service CraveTV has launched on connected TVs. The service, which is owned by…
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Package of French channels launch in the UK
Media services provider Globecast has launched its French TV package Téléfrance in the UK. The…
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Wuaki makes hire, plots Euro expansion
Movie and TV streaming service Wuaki has appointed former Samsung executive Sidharth Jayant as global…
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Wuaki launches new 4K smart TV app, preps France launch
Movie and TV streaming service Wuaki.tv has launched a new smart TV app with 4K…
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Spain’s Imira strikes Samsung connected TV deal
Madrid-based producer and distributor Imira Entertainment has struck a content deal with Samsung. The TV…
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African OTT service Aflix goes live
Aflix, a Netflix-style premium OTT service featuring more than 2,000 hours of content, including new…
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Wuaki: browser streaming will die out
Movie and TV streaming service Wuaki.tv has predicted the death of browser-based streaming in the…
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Kids go OTT
As the gamut of entertainment mediums for children grows ever wider, Andy Fry profiles how…
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Sony closing Crackle streaming service in the UK
Sony Pictures Television is closing its online channel Crackle in the UK at the end…
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OTT leads the way on 4K
As if the OTT players weren’t bumping heads with traditional broadcasters enough already, they’ve now…
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‘Russian Netflix’ hits 19 million monthly uniques
Russian online video streaming service Ivi.ru claimed it exceeded 19 million monthly unique visitors for…
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Samsung acquires web TV firm Boxee
Samsung has acquired US and Israel-based web TV service Boxee in a deal rumoured to…
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New OTT platform launches, plans Euro roll out
A new over-the-top service, Magine, has launched in Sweden this week and plans to offer…
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Spotify plans push into TV
Internet-powered music service Spotify is planning to make a bigger push into the living room,…
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Rovio unveils Angry Birds TV, VOD launch plan
The long awaited Angry Birds Toons series has secured carriage on 14 broadcasters and a…
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