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Amazon Prime Video
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Amazon to make Lord of the Rings in multi-season deal
Amazon has secured the global TV rights to JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,…
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Amazon Prime Video to launch on Xbox One X
Amazon Prime Video will be available globally on the Xbox One X console once it…
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Amazon Channels adds Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel, Discovery Communication’s premium pay TV brand, is set to become available on Amazon…
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Riggs exits as Schuster rises in Amazon shake-up
Conrad Riggs, Amazon Studios’ head of unscripted content, has been released from the company and…
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Joe Lewis departs in ongoing Amazon sweep
Joe Lewis, head of half hour and drama series development at Amazon, is the latest…
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Apple hires Wandell from Amazon
Amazon’s head of international productions, Morgan Wandell, is leaving to join Apple as head of…
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Amazon Studios chief Price suspended on sexual harassment allegations
Amazon Studios has suspended its head, Roy Price, after allegations he sexually harassed a producer…
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Russian withdrawal predicted for Netflix and Amazon
Netflix and Amazon Prime Video will withdraw from Russia due to new laws on OTT…
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Netflix in front globally, but Amazon catching up in APAC
Netflix is still outpacing Amazon Prime Video globally in numbers of active users, but Amazon…
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Amazon adds Brown Sugar to Channels
Amazon has added Brown Sugar, the new subscription video-on-demand service focusing on African-American movies, 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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Amazon beats Sky to secure ATP tennis rights for UK
Amazon has beaten Sky to secure the UK rights to men’s ATP World Tour tennis,…
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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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Amazon to up content spend in Q3
Amazon plans to up its investment in video content in the current quarter, despite reporting…
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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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Amazon touts local originals as Inside Edge scores
Amazon’s first original Indian drama, Inside Edge, has quickly become the most watched title on…
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Over-the-top revenues to quadruple in MENA region
Over-the-top video revenues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are set to more…
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Netflix ‘under threat as top VOD net for UK youth’
Netflix remains the most popular service for British children and teenagers, but Amazon Prime Video…
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India’s Videocon d2h to make Netflix available via set-tops
Indian DTH pay TV operator Videocon d2h has struck a deal with Netflix to provide…
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Netflix, Amazon UK subscribers shun ‘normal’ TV
Almost half of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video subscribers in the UK rarely watch ‘normal’…
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Amazon picks up French dramas amid international SVOD speculation
Amazon Prime Video has acquired French dramas for the first time, as speculation over an…
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Amazon Prime Video’s Christmas viewing doubles in 2015
Amazon Prime members doubled their total viewing hours of Prime Video titles over the Christmas…
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Virgin Media CEO rules out TiVo-Horizon migration
Virgin Media’s CEO Tom Mockridge has ruled migrating the firm’s TiVo TV service to Liberty…
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Amazon cuts UK TV content deal with Warner Bros.
Amazon Prime Instant Video has sealed a deal with Warner Bros. for UK rights to…