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Hybrid TV & OTT
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Medialaan taps YoSpace for new online TV service
Belgian broadcaster Medialaan has selected advertising technology outfit YoSpace to provide its dynamic ad insertion…
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YouTube TV expands to half the US
YouTube has rolled out its subscription TV streaming service to 14 new markets in the…
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Portugal’s Nowo taps Elemental for new TV service
Portuguese cable and telecom operator Nowo has tapped video technology outfit AWS Elemental to provide…
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Okko reports first operating profit as user base expands
Russian OTT TV service Okko has reported its first operating profit after first-half revenues for…
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Ex-CBS executive joins Verizon’s Go90
Former CBS alternative programming chief, Chris Castallo, is headed to digital video platform Go90 to…
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Amazon to shut down Lovefilm in UK and Germany
Amazon is calling time on its Lovefilm-branded DVD-by-post service later this year, citing declining demand…
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Telefónica ‘looking to launch’ international OTT TV service
Telefónica is mulling the launch of a Netflix-like OTT TV service to target an international…
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Netflix orders supernatural UK original
Netflix has ordered a supernatural-themed original drama produced by UK-based New Pictures, DTVE sister title…
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Shonda Rhimes leaves ABC for Netflix
Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes is bringing her Shondaland production company to Netflix under a multi-year…
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AMC Iberia to launch streaming service
AMC Networks Iberia is planning to launch a streaming service in Spain, in partnership with…
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NBCU comedy SVOD service Seeso shutting
NBCUniversal is shutting its comedy-themed SVOD service Seeso. The US service’s future has been in…
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Disney pulls content from Netflix to launch own SVOD offering
The Walt Disney Company is pulling all of its movies from Netflix in order to…
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Netflix makes first acquisition with Millarworld
SVOD giant Netflix has entered the mergers and acquisitions market for the first time by…
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Kids SVOD service launches in France
A new subscription VOD service has launched in France. Okidoki has been available through Samsung…
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Netflix orders first original from Taiwan
Netflix has ordered its first Chinese-language original series from Taiwan, a “jailbreak thriller” named Bardo. The…
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Lionsgate launches Spanish OTT service Pantaya
Lionsgate and Hemisphere Media Group have launched Pantaya, a Spanish-language OTT service dedicated to premium…
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Netflix ‘not causing major shift’ for Telefónica TV
The arrival of Netflix and other OTT TV players is not causing “a major shift…
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Iflix teams up with Econet’s Kwesé for African SVOD launch
Emerging markets subscription video-on-demand operator Iflix has teamed up with Econet Media-owned African pay TV…
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BBCWW inks first children’s deal with Amazon
BBC Worldwide has acquired its first multi-year children’s licensing deal with SVOD service Amazon Prime…
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Twitter ups live video output
Twitter said it delivered more than 1,200 hours of live premium video in Q2, with…
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New UK and scripted chiefs for Studio71
Multichannel operator Studio71 has expanded its UK business by hiring a local managing director and…
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Netflix localises in Israel
Netflix has localised its service in Israel, introducing local language versioning and billing in local…
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Amazon reveals originals trends in UK
Amazon Prime Video has revealed that Bryan Cranston-created drama Sneaky Pete is its most popular…
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Hulu launches live TV service on Amazon Fire TV
Hulu has rolled out its recently-launched live TV streaming service on Amazon’s Fire TV and…
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FINA taps Deltatre for launch of OTT TV aquatic sports service
International aquatic sports organisation the Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) has teamed up with Bruin…
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BBC Worldwide channels launch on Polish OTT service
Cyfrowy Polsat-owned OTT TV service Ipla has added three BBC Worldwide channels to its programming…
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Molotov passes one million milestone
France-based OTT TV service Molotov has passed the milestone of one million, according to Jean-Marc…
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MCN Studio71 to launch in France
Multichannel network (MCN) Studio71 is to launch in France in September. The move follows the…
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Skinny bundle ‘VMSOs’ could present serious challenge to US pay TV
The US’s new wave of OTT TV ‘skinny bundle’ providers could amass 3.5 million subscribers…
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Netflix to let kids control originals narratives
Subscription VOD service Netflix is to introduce interactive ‘branching’ narrative episodes to a pair of…