Digital
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Park: $9.1 Billion Lost Due to Piracy and Account Sharing
Digital piracy, including illegal sharing of over-the-top video subscriptions, continues to proliferate, according to new data from Parks Associates. The Dallas-based firm projects OTT and pay-TV operators will lose $9.1 billion in revenue due to piracy and account sharing. This figure will grow to $12.5 billion in 2024, up 38% over the next five years. … Continue reading “Park: $9.1 Billion Lost Due to Piracy and Account Sharing”
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Disney’s Pending Streaming Video Service Has Broad Consumer Awareness in the U.S. – Less So in the U.K.
Disney’s upcoming Nov. 11 launch of branded subscription streaming video service, Disney+, has been the media company’s primary focus in 2019. New data from a survey of 2,500 Internet users in the United States by GlobalWebIndex found 35% of respondents cite remakes and sequels of noted Disney film brands for wanting to subscribe to Disney+. … Continue reading “Disney’s Pending Streaming Video Service Has Broad Consumer Awareness in the U.S. – Less So in the U.K.”
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Park: $9.1 Billion Lost Due to Piracy and Account Sharing
Digital piracy, including illegal sharing of over-the-top video subscriptions, continues to proliferate, according to new data from Parks Associates. The Dallas-based firm projects OTT and pay-TV operators will lose $9.1 billion in revenue due to piracy and account sharing. This figure will grow to $12.5 billion in 2024, up 38% over the next five years. … Continue reading “Park: $9.1 Billion Lost Due to Piracy and Account Sharing”
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Disney’s Pending Streaming Video Service Has Broad Consumer Awareness in the U.S. – Less So in the U.K.
Disney’s upcoming Nov. 11 launch of branded subscription streaming video service, Disney+, has been the media company’s primary focus in 2019. New data from a survey of 2,500 Internet users in the United States by GlobalWebIndex found 35% of respondents cite remakes and sequels of noted Disney film brands for wanting to subscribe to Disney+. … Continue reading “Disney’s Pending Streaming Video Service Has Broad Consumer Awareness in the U.S. – Less So in the U.K.”
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Report: Netflix South Korea Tops 1.8 Million Subscribers After Slow Start
Netflix has reportedly generated more than 1.8 million subscribers in South Korea – three years after launching service in the Asian country. The sub count from the end of June 30 is up 192% from about 630,000 subs in the previous-year period, according to research company WiseApp. The report contends 38% of Netflix’s South Korean … Continue reading “Report: Netflix South Korea Tops 1.8 Million Subscribers After Slow Start”
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‘Stranger Things’ Remains Most Popular TV Show on Parrot Analytics’ Demand Charts
Netflix’s “Stranger Things” remained No. 1 on not only Parrot Analytics’ digital originals rankings the week ended July 13, but also the data firm’s overall list of TV series from any platform, including broadcast and cable, for the third straight week. A “digital original” is a multi-episode series in which the most recent season was … Continue reading “‘Stranger Things’ Remains Most Popular TV Show on Parrot Analytics’ Demand Charts”
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Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Top Binge, ‘3Below: Tales of Arcadia’ Top Rising Show on TV Time Charts
Viewers continued to binge “Stranger Things.” For a second consecutive week, the Netflix series topped TV Time’s “Binge Report.” Meanwhile, viewers picked Netflix’s animated “3Below: Tales of Arcadia” as the top “Show on the Rise” on TV Time’s charts for the week ended July 14. TV Time is a free TV viewership tracking app that tracks consumers’ viewing habits worldwide and is … Continue reading “Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Top Binge, ‘3Below: Tales of Arcadia’ Top Rising Show on TV Time Charts”
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Dish Bows 4K HDR-Compatible Streaming Stick
Dish Network’s AirTV subsidiary July 15 announced the launch of a 4K HDR compatible streaming stick, powered by Google’s Android TV operating system. The palm-sized $79.99 AirTV Mini device integrates Sling TV, Netflix and other over-the-top apps, in addition to OTA digital channels when paired with a compatible antenna and a Wi-Fi-enabled network tuner. “The … Continue reading “Dish Bows 4K HDR-Compatible Streaming Stick”
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Euro News: Pay-TV to Add 17.7M Subs; Italian Piracy Declines
Despite ongoing consumer migration toward over-the-top video distribution, European pay-TV operators are projected to add 17.7 million subscribers through 2023, according to new data from Dataxis. How’s that? In Europe, pay-TV consumption is combined with online TV and OTT video (i.e. Netflix, Amazon Prime Video). Thus, Euro pay-TV growth, which represents an 8.4% increase from … Continue reading “Euro News: Pay-TV to Add 17.7M Subs; Italian Piracy Declines”
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Analyst: Netflix to Weather Content Migration — For Now
With Netflix set to release second-quarter (ended June 30) financial results on July 17, Michael Pachter, analyst with Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles and longtime Netflix bear, contends the subscription streaming video pioneer will add 5.3 million subscribers, including 300,000 in the United States. The tally surprisingly exceeds Wall Street consensus and Netflix’s projection of … Continue reading “Analyst: Netflix to Weather Content Migration — For Now”
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Disney Shuttering FX+ Streaming Service
To make room for its pending Disney+ subscription streaming video service and global expansion of Hulu, Disney — as expected — has begun informing subscribers that 20th Century Fox’s FX+ streaming service will shut down Aug. 21. Launched in 2017 as a $6 monthly add-on to pay-TV subscribers, Disney says FX+ viewers can still access … Continue reading “Disney Shuttering FX+ Streaming Service”
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EMA’s LAES and OTT Conferences Kick Off July 16
The Entertainment Merchants Association will hold its annual Los Angeles Entertainment Summit at the Hilton Universal City starting July 16, along with a concurrent conference OTT_X covering the over-the-top market. Events begin at 9 a.m. following a network breakfast with an introduction from EMA president and CEO Mark Fisher and OTT_X chair Erick Opeka of … Continue reading “EMA’s LAES and OTT Conferences Kick Off July 16”