Evergent, the customer management and monetisation player for streaming and digital subscription businesses, reveals the top five ways that media organisations and direct-to-consumer streaming services are missing out on revenue. The insights are based on Evergent’s experience onboarding 800 million subscribers in 180 countries and point the way to fix changes that can make a […]

FilmRise, the New York City-based film and television studio and streaming network, has acquired certain digital rights to the SYFY Channel zombie series Z Nation from The Asylum, the motion picture and television studios. The deal gives FilmRise worldwide distribution rights to all five seasons of the sci-fi, horror/drama series for all digital media including […]

M6 Group’s new free streaming platform, M6+, will launch in France on May 15th. The date was announced by outgoing M6 CEO, Nicolas Tavernost, at an advertising conference in Paris. Tavernost will be stepping down from his role on April 23rd. M6+ will succeed the 6play offering and is set to accelerate M6’s focus on […]

Live streaming has taken the world by storm over the last decade, and now developers are working on ways to make it even better. Future technology like virtual reality is likely to make it even more immersive, and artificial intelligence could play a role in the rise of personalised live streaming experiences. Live streaming could […]

ITVX recorded its best ever quarter between January 1st and March 31st with 896 million streams across the service – an increase of 12 per cent on Q1 2023. This follows January’s record-breaking month with 328 million streams, more than any other month on ITVX or previously on ITV Hub, and February was just behind […]

Data from consumer research company GWI reveals that broadcast TV is still central to Brits’ media consumption, with nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of TV viewing time spent on live TV, rather than online streaming (36 per cent). Despite the rise of streaming platforms over the years, GWI’s 2024 Global Media Landscape Report shows the […]

The BBFC has published its new Classification Guidelines, informed by its largest-ever public consultation. Throughout 2023, the BBFC spoke to 12,000 people across the UK to explore what matters most to audiences when it comes to classification. The research found people are now more concerned about depictions of violence on screen in content across all […]

Witbe, the specialist in test automation and monitoring technology for video service providers, has announced a new customer in Channel 4 Television Corporation — owner and operator of one of the UK’s biggest free streaming service and a number of television channels including E4, More4, Film4, and 4seven. Channel 4 is utilising Witbe’s technology to […]

Eutelsat Group has announced that StarTV, one of Mexico’s leading DTH operators, has selected the Eutelsat 117 West B satellite for the deployment of StarFlix, its new video streaming service. This multi-year, multi-transponder capacity agreement will enable StarTV to offer a new streaming and on-demand service to customers with a wide variety of content, in […]

Pete Distad has been named CEO of the soon-to-launch sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery. Distad, who most recently served as an executive at Apple for a decade following six years at Hulu, will assume oversight of all aspects of the joint venture, including overall strategy, distribution, marketing, sales and more. […]