- WarnerMedia: Max Skewing Younger Than Original HBO; 'Friends' Is No.1 Show
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Nearly a quarter of Max viewers are between 18 and 24, says the company, which also says that Max's average weekly time-spent is so far 70% higher than HBO Now's ...
- Apple TV To Amp Up Original Movies Following Hanks' 'Greyhound' Hit
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, July 27, 2020
Apple is considering investing in about a dozen new original flicks per year, including two to four blockbuster-level projects, says a report. ...
- BritBox To Expand Into Up To 25 Countries
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, July 27, 2020
The SVOD recently reached 1 million subscribers in the U.S. and Canada, its first two markets, and is now growing rapidly in its U.K. home market, where it launched last ...
- Quibi Wins First Battle In Patent Lawsuit: Turnstyle Injunction Denied
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
As part of a patent suit filed against Quibi by Eko, a judge has denied Eko's request to enjoin Quibi from using its adaptable-viewing Turnstyle feature. The judge did not ...
- SVODs Amping Up Use Of YouTube, Facebook; Trailers Being Mixed With Other Formats
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, July 14, 2020
SVODs upped their use of the social platforms, looking to grab share of sheltering-at-home consumers' expanded streaming time. Promo format profiles differ by service. ...
- 40% Of Global SVOD Subscriptions To Come Via Smartphones By 2025
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
The average smartphone SVOD subscriber will pay for 1.8 such subscriptions, on average, projects Digital TV Research. ...
- YouTube TV Hikes Price By $15, Adds Viacom Channels
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
The Google-owned SVOD blamed the increase, to $65, on the rising costs of content -- while touting its addition of ViacomCBS channels and various user convenience features. ...
- OTT Churn Rate Jumps To 41% In Q1, As More Viewers Sample Services
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Churn rates for OTT services overall rose 6 percentage points versus Q1 2019, reports Parks Associates, which points to more extended sampling trials as the competitive field continues to exp ...
- 'Gone With The Wind' To Return To HBO Max With Contextual Intro
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The intro is being provided by black scholar and TCM host Jacqueline Stewart. But HBO Max isn't specifying a date for the return yet. ...
- eMarketer: OTT Time Spent To Rise 23%, Exceed An Hour For First Time
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The acceleration is being driven not just by stay-at-home, but the boom in available content and increasing cord-cutting, says the research firm. ...
- HBO Max Replacing HBO Go; HBO Now Rebranded As HBO; Max Has 1.7M Downloads To Date
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, June 15, 2020
WarnerMedia is attempting to clear up consumer confusion around the three services bearing the HBO brand as it moves to eventually consolidate all of them into HBO Max -- as ...
- Connected TV Viewing Remains High As States Re-Open, Legacy TV Back To Pre-COVID Levels
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 4, 2020
As states begin to re-open, Nielsen says traditional TV viewing has drifted back to historical levels while connected TV usage remains high. ...
- Most Sports Fans Worldwide Have Pay TV, More Than Half Also Watch On Pirated Platforms
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 4, 2020
Of those who watch pirated sports content, 42% view it on a daily basis. Limited local sports TV access is a main reason, an international study by Ampere Analysis for ...
- 2025 Global Outlook: Disney+, Netflix To Add 460M Subs; Pay TV To Add 35M, See Revenue Drop 26%
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, May 29, 2020
Global SVOD to be dominated by five platforms with combined paid subscribers totaling 1.2 billion, according to a new Digital TV Research projections that factor in the effects of COVID ...
- WarnerMedia Hiring 200 On Eve Of HBO Max Launch
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Most hires are engineers, who will help ensure a critically important seamless tech launch for the SVOD version on May 27, and work on launching an AVOD version and international ...
- AT&T CFO: COVID Not Altering HBO Max Launch Plans, Price Is Right
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, May 13, 2020
AT&T remains confident that HBO Max's additional content and appeal to the whole family will win subscribers at a price that's the same as HBO, but considerably higher than competitors ...
- OTT Penetration Tops Three-Quarters Of U.S. Homes
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Monday, May 11, 2020
As of Q1 2020, more than three-quarters of U.S. broadband households were estimated to be subscribing to at least one over-the-top subscription video-on-demand service, according to an analysis of Parks ...
- HBO Max Bows Discount Offer, Signs Hulu As Distribution Partner
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, May 4, 2020
Some pre-launch orders made directly through WarnerMedia are eligible for $2 off the standard $14.99-per-month price. Hulu customers already buying HBO as an add-on through Hulu get a no-additional-cost upgrade ...
- Charter To Distribute WarnerMedia's HBO Max
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Charter's existing HBO subscribers will get the SVOD at no extra charge when it launches next month. Other video, broadband and mobile Charter customers will be able to buy HBO ...
- Quibi Launch Generates Underwhelming Downloads, Social Buzz
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, April 9, 2020
Mobile-only Quibi had generated about 300,000 app downloads (including pre-orders) by the end of its April 6 launch day, and it generated 23X fewer tweets on its launch day than ...
- Comedy Consumption When Nobody Feels Like Laughing
Marketing Insider, Tommy Walters - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Given the uncertainty of COVID-19 and how it's impacting the entertainment industry at large, more generations might be seeking comedy from their social and mobile feeds. ...
- Sampling Trend: Xfinity X1, Flex Make VOD From 2 Dozen Latino, A-A Networks, SVODs Free, For Now
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Another example of the growing trend among paid video platforms and pay-TV providers to offer content sampling with the goal of converting viewers to paid subscribers as shelter-at-home drives more ...
- HBO Max 'Friends' Reunion Among Hollywood's Delayed Productions
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, March 19, 2020
The special, designed to highlight "Friends" series and drive subscriptions for HBO Max, should still be ready for the SVOD's May launch, says the company. ...
- CSM Exec: Streamers Now Need To Go Beyond Content To Create Affinity, Retention
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Content is too ubiquitous to achieve retention on its own -- particularly with even more big-brand new streamers about to debut, says Rob Drury, VP, client partnerships at the CSM ...
- With Movie Theaters In Limbo, 'Frozen 2' Makes Early Disney+ Debut
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, March 16, 2020
Disney is also delaying the theatrical releases of "Mulan," "New Mutant" and Searchlight's "Antlers," but no indications thus far it will release those first on Disney+. ...
- TV Is THE Metaphor For Video's Future
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, March 12, 2020
New devices have neither supplanted television's unique role in delivering video, nor come as close as TV to shaping video content itself. ...
- AMC Networks Sees Q4 Declines In Advertising And Subscriber Revenues
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 26, 2020
AMC Networks posted a 8% decline in advertising results at its TV networks, as well as a decline in distribution revenues. ...
- Roku Gets Analysts' Nod Over Netflix, As It Faces Off With Big Media Companies
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, February 13, 2020
Two Needham analysts give Netflix an "underperform" rating, while projecting Roku as the "winning aggregator" in the domestic streaming wars. Meanwhile, Roku is flexing its muscles with entertainment powers over ...
- Report: Netflix Shifting Marketing Approach, Planning Some Layoffs
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, January 29, 2020
New CMO Jackie Lee-Joe intends to add promotion of the overall benefits of the service to its usual pitches for specific original content offerings, sources tell THR. ...
- Has SVOD Adoption Plateaued?
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, January 28, 2020
In U.S. broadband households, SVOD adoption has plateaued at 71%, according to new research from Parks Associates. But the report also found that total average per-week video consumption, including TV, ...
