Xperi Study: Personalization Key To Winning Fickle SVoD Viewers
Providing greater levels of personalization in multiple touch points of a user’s over the top (OTT) streaming experience, and getting it right, is the key to building user engagement, preventing viewer churn and adding new subscribers from the increasing competitive field. That was the key…
`Coda’, `Moon Knight’ Top JustWatch Streaming Charts, March 28-April 3
Coda (Apple TV+HBO Max, Hulu or Spectrum TV), Death on the Nile (HBO Max and Hulu) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (Prime Video, iTunes, YouTube TV, Google Play TV and Vudu), represented the top three movies streamed or searched for most in the United States…
YouTube Adds Free Ad-Supported TV Shows
Google’s YouTube channel has started offering free ad-supported TV (FAST) channels to go up against the likes of Pluto TV, Roku TV, Peacock, Tubi and others. The company announced the channel’s new service expansion Wednesday in a blog posting, which indicated more than 4,000 episodes…
Netflix Tests Methods Of Surcharge Implementation For Subscription Sharers
Netflix revealed this week that its is testing in certain Latin American countries a method of dealing with password sharing on the subscription video on demand service, including a new means of handing sharing surcharges. The move comes as the next steps in the streaming…
`The Grinch,’ `Yellowstone’ Pace JustWatch Streaming Selections
As the holidays draw closer, The Grinch — 2018 (Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu.), Elf (Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Vudu), and How the Grinch Stole Christmas — 2000 (Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Vudu, YouTube) represented the top three movies streamed or…
Roku, Google Extend Agreement On YouTube, YouTube TV Carriage
In eleventh-hour fashion, Roku announced Wednesday that it has reached an agreement with Google on a new multi-year extension to an agreement to keep the main YouTube app and (restored) YouTube TV live streaming service available for new Roku device owners in the Roku Channel…
Netflix Expands AV1 Codec Streaming To Smart TVs
Netflix has begun streaming content encoded with the three-year-old high-efficiency codec AV1 from the Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia) on supporting smart TVs, expanding the range of devices beyond Android mobile products. The world’s largest video streaming network announced the move in a blog on…
`Free Guy’, `Squid Game’ Top JustWatch Lists For Oct. 4th-10th
Free Guy (Disney+), Venom (Apple TV+, various) and Halloween (Shudder, The Roku Channel) represented the top three movies streamed or searched for in the United States for the week of Oct. 4-10, 20201, according to data gathered by online recommendations service JustWatch. Squid Game (Netflix),…
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