Parks: Top 3 OTT Services Secure In U.S. Subscription Ranks
Although the ranking order of the top 10 over-the-top streaming services has been re-arranged somewhat following the emergence of new services including Disney+, Apple TV+, Peacock and HBO Max, the top three services — Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu — don’t appear to be going…
Disney+ Garners 73M Paid Subscribers In First Year
What do the new Disney+ service and presumptive President-Elect Joseph Biden have in common? They each reported more than 73 million supporters and growing in November. As part of its fiscal fourth quarter earnings report Thursday, Disney revealed that in just over a year since…
`Bloomberg Quicktake’ App Comes To Smart TVs
Cord-cutters with smart TVs or media streaming players are about to get a new news app and streaming channel for live and on-demand stories delivered with a business spin. Beginning at 9 am EST tomorrow (November 9th), Bloomberg Media will launch its streaming news network,…
Netflix Raises Prices On Step-up Service Plans In The U.S.
Netflix revealed Thursday that it will be raising the price for the premium four-stream 4K/HDR and standard two-stream Full HD service plans for U.S. customers shortly. Under the new pricing plan, Netflix customers in the U.S. will be required to pay $2 more per month…
Free ABC News App Comes To Samsung TVs, Galaxy Devices
Samsung has added the ABC News App to its library of free ad-supported over-the-top news programming available through the Samsung TV Plus section available on Samsung Tizen-based smart TVs since 2016. Samsung said the ABC News App will enable cord-cutting Samsung smart TV owners to…
114M New U.S. SVOD Subscriptions Predicted Through 2025
If you think your favorite OTT subscription video on demand (SVOD) app has been buffering too much lately or frequently down-rezing that quality 4K Ultra HD/HDR video you might be paying extra for — Just wait. A report issued this week by U.K.-based Digital TV…
EVOCA ATSC 3.0 Pay-TV Service Launches In Boise Market Today
A new pay-TV service called EVOCA that leverages the NextGenTV ATSC 3.0 over-the-air (OTA) broadcast TV system kicks off its service with an “Early Access” offer today in the Boise, ID market. The first-of-its-kind ATSC 3.0-based OTA pay-TV service, EVOCA launched with a cost-reduced “early…
COVID-19 Pushes Streaming Businesses Over The Top
The COVID-19 crisis is intensifying the divide in consumer demand between streaming platforms and traditional pay-TV operations as illustrated by recent diverging reports on the first half performances of over-the-top content provider Netflix, and the second quarter financial of pay-TV conglomerate AT&T. This week, AT&T…
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