“Tindering” Content: Choosing the Best Outlet for Your Story
When: 17 Oct 2016, Monday, 9:45am Where: Cannes, France Event: MIPCOM, the world’s content market Do you want to go beyond Netflix? There are plenty of niche platforms today that differ wildly from the global OTT platforms we’ve come to …
Exclusive: Choosing Between Netflix Dollars and Ratings Declines
By Sarah Barry James Thursday, December 11, 2014 – Netflix Inc. may be killing live TV. But it could also be making it stronger. At the recent UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York, there was a lot …
FilmTake OTT Video Report Summary
Over-the-Top Video Present & Future The Latest International Distribution Data & Insights TV is taking over the Internet – not the other way around “Consumers do not care which pipe information and entertainment comes from, provided the service delivers the …
SVOD Report: Bulk buying is out, exclusivity is in
By Melita Kuburas for StreamDaily SVOD services are shaking up the syndication model, spending more on individual shows than they did on bulk libraries just a few years ago. That’s according to an in-depth report from RBC Capital Markets titled …
HBO to Launch Stand-Alone Streaming Service
By Joe Flint And Keach Hagey for The Wall Street Journal HBO is finally giving the cord-cutters what they want. Speaking at Time Warner Inc. ’s investor day meeting on Wednesday, Richard Plepler, the chief executive of HBO, announced that …
Eisner: Hulu Buyer Will Lose Next-Day Rights
July 11, 2013 Former Disney chairman Michael Eisner has predicted the victor in the battle to buy US streaming service Hulu will lose the prized next-day rights it currently offers. Speaking to Bloomberg Television yesterday, Eisner revealed that he had …
The House of Cards effect: Netflix tops $1B in Q1 revenue, near 30M U.S. subscribers
By Janko Roettgers for PaidContent.org Looks like House of Cards has been working for Netflix: The streaming service made more than $1 billion in revenue for the first time in its corporate history in Q1 of 2013, according to financial results published …