- Fox Corp. Won't Take On Big Media's SVOD Platforms, Looks To AVOD
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 5, 2021
"We believe we can win in the advertising video-on-demand world... in a much more careful and clever way," Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said. He adds that national TV ...
- EU Viewers Prefer Streaming To Broadcast, Use AVOD About As Much As SVOD
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 5, 2021
Across the EU5 countries, weekly SVOD usage rates average 68%, while AVOD averages 63%. ...
- Analyst: Disney+ To Surpass Netflix In Subs By 2026, Driven By Hotstar
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, February 15, 2021
But Disney+ Hotstar's low sub pricing will also keep the streamer's global revenue down at about half of Netflix's, projects Digital TV Research. ...
- vMVPDs' 2020 Trends, In Six Charts
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, February 12, 2021
A look at vMVPDs' shares of subscriptions and sign-ups, resubscribe and trial conversion rates, and more, courtesy of data from Antenna. ...
- ViacomCBS Announces Paramount+ Launch Dates
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, January 19, 2021
The U.S. and some other regions will see March debuts of the rebranded, expanded service replacing CBS All Access. ...
- Competition, Price Hike, 'Cuties' Blowback Impact Netflix's U.S. New-Subs Share
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, January 19, 2021
The largest and most established streamers' share of new U.S. SVOD subscriptions was down to 7.4% in Q4, while Amazon Prime Video and newbie HBO Max had 18.2% and 19. ...
- 20% Of U.S. Broadband Households Use Ad-Supported OTT, 15% Use 'Freemium' Services
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, December 30, 2020
New research confirms the growing popularity of so-called freemium services - hybrid business models that combine free, ad-supported content with a premium subscription tier. ...
- Global SVOD Subs Rose By A Record 218M YoY In Q3
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, December 17, 2020
The growth beat the previous record of 211.7 million in Q4 2018, reports Strategy Analytics. ...
- HBO Max Finally Bows On Comcast's Xfinity X1, Flex
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Comcast was a distribution partner for Max's launch, but creating "frictionless" access to the new SVOD for the platform's customers took some time. ...
- Consumers Now Use Seven SVOD + Free Services, Churn Rates Down
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, December 14, 2020
The average number of services used rose by two between April and October alone, and the churn rate for SVODs declined by eight percentage points between the third quarters ...
- 'The Office' To Return To NBCU On Peacock -- Free, Ad-Supported, Ad-Free Options
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 14, 2020
Netflix's airing of "The Office," which had been the most-watched TV show on the subscription video-on-demand service, is finally coming to NBCU's "Peacock" in three options -- as a fre ...
- Without A Script: Discovery+ To Test Uncharted SVOD Waters
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Monday, December 14, 2020
Discovery has no scripted content, but it is diving into a new venture in an arena whose success has been almost completely dependent on scripted TV shows. ...
- AT&T Sells Crunchyroll To Sony For $1.18 Billion, More DirecTV Offers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 10, 2020
Looking to pay down debt -- and jettison non-core business -- AT&T has sold off Crunchyroll, its anime TV production and subscription platform business for $1.18 billion to Sony's Funimati ...
- Showtime Gets Free, Ad-Supported Sampling Channel On Pluto TV
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, December 1, 2020
ViacomCBS is using its AVOD service to target new prospects for the premium SVOD by offering carefully selected series episodes, bracketed by pre- and post-roll ads. ...
- Why Pay-TV Operators Are Scrambling: Sub And Revenue Growth Curves Both Favor OTT
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The pandemic-driven streaming surge has accelerated over-the-top video subscriptions, driving them to exceed pay-TV subscriptions on a global basis in 2020. ...
- NBCUniversal's 'Trolls World Tour' Influencer Campaign Skyrockets Digital Data To Success
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, November 29, 2020
When the theatrical release of "Trolls World Tour" failed to materialize after the COVID-19 pandemic set in and shut down movie theaters nationwide, NBCU needed another plan. Pulling a maj ...
- Big SVODs' Subs Projected To Grow 62%, Reach 678M, By 2025, With Disney+ At 194M
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Disney+ will add 112 million subscribers (+58%) worldwide, while No. 1 Netflix will add 73 million (+36%), to reach 274,000, projects Digital TV Research. ...
- Disney+, HBO Max, Apple+ Make New Top-10 SVODs Ranking
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Researcher Parks Associates also reports that 78% of U.S. broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT service, up from 71% the previous year. ...
- U.S. Pay TV-Only Households Down To 14%; MVPD Plus SVOD Households Up to 60%
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 9, 2020
Households with paid subscription-based video-on-demand/SVOD services only remain stable at 20%, but pay-TV/MVPD-only households declined by seven percentage points, reports Leichtman Research Group. ...
- Disney Hires Now Dominated By Streaming, Retail; Total Workforce Projected To Drop 28K In 2020
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 2, 2020
Since April, new jobs posted for retail and streaming services have accounted for nearly 55% of the Walt Disney Company's total postings. ...
- Netflix Raises Most U.S. Prices; Standard Plan Up 8%, To $13.99
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 30, 2020
Recognizing the economic bifurcation in the U.S., Netflix kept its Basic plan at $8.99 per month, and saved the biggest hike for its Premium plan: up $2, or 12.5%, ...
- Discovery UK Combines Free, Paid Channels In New Offering Dubbed Discovery+
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Discovery's global version of a D2C streamer, also expected to be branded Discovery+. may arrive in 2021. Meanwhile, in the U.K., the company is rebranding its ad-supported dplay streaming servi ...
- AVODs: U.S. Users Hit 17%; Audience Older, Less Wealthy Than SVODs'
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Nearly one in five U.S. internet users report watching AVOD services in Q3 -- up from 13% in Q3 2019, per Ampere Analysis research, which also finds that AVODs a ...
- Amazon, Apple Could See Long-Term Gains, Become Bigger Rivals To Netflix
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Amazon and Apple could gain ground on industry leader Netflix, according to one analyst, due to their staying power. "SVOD and given OTT products are not their core business [an ...
- Nearly A Quarter Of Streaming Adults Use AVOD Regularly
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Compared to 21% of streaming adults who use AVOD regularly, 69% report watching subscription-based video services/SVODs regularly, and 10% report watching virtual MVPDs regularly, according to a just-released VAB sur ...
- AVOD Vs. SVOD? That's A False Choice, Say ViacomCBS's DeBevoise And Others
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 2, 2020
The ad-supported versus subscription-supported question is becoming increasingly irrelevant, according to executives from major entertainment companies, AVODs, SVODs and tech partners alike. ...
- Peacock Premium Plus Adds Offline Downloads
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Users of the free Peacock version can try the offline access feature by taking a seven-day free trial to the premium tier. ...
- Global SVOD Subscriptions, Revenue To Double By 2025, Big Gains For Netflix, Disney+, Amazon: Study
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 28, 2020
Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video will control half the world's subscription-video on demand users by 2025, according to a new survey. ...
- TV, Video Devices Grow To 1.1 Billion, Samsung Has Top 14% Share
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 4, 2020
TV and video streaming devices have grown to 1.15 billion devices worldwide, with Samsung the leading brand in global share, Strategy Analytics says. ...
- Nielsen Finds Most-Watched SVOD Show Is Netflix's 'The Umbrella Academy'
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Thursday, September 3, 2020
With 3.011 billion gross minutes viewed, the launch of the second season of Netflix original series "The Umbrella Academy" was by far the most-watched program on subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service ...
