- Dennis Launches 19 Titles On Readly
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, January 4, 2018
Dennis has announced that 19 of its titles will be made available through Readly, "Press Gazette" reports. The platform, which calls itself "Spotify for magazines," allows subscribers to pay ...
- Exclusive Content May Not Be As Vital To Streaming Services As Some Think
Video Insider, Alex Weprin - Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Is exclusive, original content the most important factor to having a successful streaming video service? Perhaps not, if a new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers is any indication. ...
- Pandora Rolls Out Video Ads For On-Demand Listening
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Thursday, December 14, 2017
The streaming music service Pandora is rolling out pre-roll video ads to its free tier of service, letting users play a song or album on demand after viewing a 15-seco ...
- Report: YouTube To Try Again With New Music Subscription Service
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Friday, December 8, 2017
The new service would be the company's third attempt at breaking into the crowded music subscription space, which counts Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music Unlimited as players. ...
- Sling TV Adds Standalone Niche On-Demand Channels
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Thursday, December 7, 2017
CuriosityStream, an over-the-top streaming video service targeting viewers of documentary nature, science and space programming, is launching on Dish Networks' Sling TV platform, as will channels for Spanish-language and faith-orient ...
- Media Brands Bet On OTT To Lift Legacy Businesses
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Monday, November 27, 2017
If you subscribe to an over-the-top "skinny bundle" in the near future, or if you check out Amazon Channels, which offers independent streaming services for Amazon Prime members, you mig ...
- NextUp, U.K. Comedy Streaming Service, Launches On Amazon Channels
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Thursday, November 23, 2017
The service, NextUp, will be available to Amazon Prime members for $3.50 per month, and will offer a free trial. It first launched in the U.K. at the end ...
- Amazon Inks International Streaming Deal For AMC Shows
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Monday, November 20, 2017
Amazon and AMC Studios have signed an international output deal that will give the technology giant first-run rights to new shows from the company in 28 countries, including Japan, Austral ...
- Pay TV Losses Accelerate In Q3, Virtual Pay TV Gaining
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 17, 2017
In the third quarter of this year, 1.2 million subscribers were lost by legacy pay TV providers. Total U.S. traditional pay TV subscribers now stand at 94.9 million. ...
- Hallmark Joins Amazon's 'Channels' Push
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Thursday, November 16, 2017
Viewers can access Crown Media's streaming video on-demand service Hallmark Movies Now through Amazon Channels for $5.99 per month. The video channel will feature between 800-1,000 hours of content, wi ...
- Sprint To Bundle Hulu Subscription With Unlimited Data Plan
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Starting Friday, new and existing subscribers to Sprint's Unlimited Freedom plan can access Hulu's limited commercials plan at no extra charge, saving $7.99 per month. ...
- Sling TV, SpotX Team To Target Holiday Shoppers With Addressable Marketplaces
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Monday, November 13, 2017
Dish's over-the-top video service Sling TV and video ad serving platform SpotX are teaming up to launch private marketplaces that let advertisers target two key consumer groups for the holid ...
- Big Media Companies Tease Their OTT Future
Video Insider, Alex Weprin - Monday, November 13, 2017
If there was one theme that would sum up the quarterly financial earnings calls of the big television companies this past quarter, it would be "over-the-top is coming, and ...
- Hulu Becomes First OTT Service Available On Nintendo Switch
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Friday, November 10, 2017
Hulu, the over-the-top streaming video service owned by Fox, Disney, NBCUniversal and Time Warner, is now available through Nintendo Switch video game consoles. Hulu is the first U.S. streaming servi ...
- Mobile, Native, Video And Subs Rock -- Display, Not So Much
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, November 9, 2017
Publishers are finding the big growth areas are in the news flow -- not the banners around it. ...
- 'The Economist' Meets CNBC? Streaming Network Karma Thinks There's A Market
Video Insider, Alex Weprin - Tuesday, November 7, 2017
While many large streaming services try to be everything to everyone by having enormous libraries of content, we are now seeing a new wave of OTT startups targeting more nic ...
- Study: Originals Drive OTT Subscriptions
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Friday, November 3, 2017
Original and exclusive programming is the driving factor for consumers when they decide to subscribe to an over-the-top video service. That's probably the biggest takeaway from the Magid Media Futur ...
- Cord-Cutting? No Problem, Says CBS CEO
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Saturday, November 4, 2017
CBS isn't afraid of cord-cutters leaving the traditional pay-TV bundle for over-the-top streaming video services. So said CBS CEO Les Moonves on the company's Q3 earnings call with analysts Thursda ...
- Netflix Says Next Season Of 'House Of Cards' Will Be Its Last
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Monday, October 30, 2017
Netflix and producer Media Rights Capital say that the sixth season of "House of Cards" will be the show's last. The cancellation comes after lead actor Kevin Spacey was accus ...
- YouTube Orders Sci-Fi Series 'Origin,' Sets 'Best.Cover.Ever' Premiere
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, October 25, 2017
YouTube is beefing up both its free, ad-supported streaming product and its ad-free subscription "Red" product, as it orders sci-fi drama series "Origins" and sets a November debut for unscript ...
- The Email Practices of Subscription Box Retail Companies
Email Marketing Daily, Jess Nelson - Friday, August 25, 2017
A study of 100 subscription box companies by Iterable details how these retail companies are utilizing multichannel marketing campaigns to engage with their customers. ...
- Facebook Offers Subscription To Publishers, Without Taking A Cut
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, August 24, 2017
It is an announcement that has been long anticipated, Facebook will allow people to subscribe to publications they discover through Instant Articles, and crucially, it won't be taking a cu ...
- Altice USA Cable Video Loses More Subscribers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 28, 2017
Altice USA -- which bought up Cablevision Systems and a majority interest in Suddenlink over the past two years -- lost a total of 37,000 subscribers in the second quar ...
- WSJ Loses 44% Of Web Traffic From Google Search, But Subscriptions Soar
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 6, 2017
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) stopped participating in a program this past February that allowed site visitors from the Google search engine to bypass its paywall. Visits from Google's sear ...
- ESPN Loses Subs, Republican Viewers Too
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 12, 2017
Looking at all the markets, 34 of the 43 showed that the flagship ESPN network became less Republican in 2016 -- which, in turn, means the ESPN audience became mo ...
- What Explains NY Times' Subscription Surge?
Around the Net In Publishing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, May 5, 2017
There are several reasons for the increase in digital subscription that The New York Times is presently enjoying. “The Times’ subscription bump is in large part a product of Dona ...
- Amazon Sells Digital Subs, Publishers Gain Global Access
The Daily Blog, Erik Sass - Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Embattled publishers got some good news: Amazon's launch of a new service selling online subscriptions, including digital magazines and newspapers, gives publishers access to its vast online retail customer ba ...
- Netflix Will Spend $1B In Acquisition Marketing, With A Good Bit On Programmatic
RTBlog, Tobi Elkin - Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Reporting its Q1 earnings this week, Netflix said it would put up $1 billion on customer acquisition marketing with a good portion of that budget going to programmatic advertising effort ...
- Twitter Considering A Paid-For Premium Membership Option
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 24, 2017
Twitter has struck on a new idea as it battles to make its first dollar in profit -- why not charge heavy users? A new membership option is being considere ...
- Vimeo, With Big Plans, Hires Three New Execs
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, March 17, 2017
Vimeo plans to launch an upgraded pay service that it hopes will eventually rival Netflix. Big plans! It's now hired three new development executives to coordinate content acquisition. ...
