JustWatch: Netflix, Prime Video Were Just 2% Apart In Market Share In Q3
According to U.S. user metrics from online content recommendations service JustWatch, Netflix and Amazon Prime were neck and neck in viewership market share during the third quarter of 2022. The company’s subscription video on demand (SVOD) market shares report for Q3 2022found Netflix and Prime…
`A Quiet Place’, ‘Rick And Morty’ Top Most Streamed Content For June
A Quiet Place, The Hitman’s Bodyguard and Nobody represented the top 3 most streamed movies in the United States during the month of June, according to the month’s top 10 streaming lists from online streaming guide, JustWatch. Also last month, Rick & Morty (Adult Swim/HBO…
The Roku Channel Kicks Off First-Run TV Series
Roku began offering an exclusive new TV series, called Cypher, on The Roku Channel (TRC) Friday in what is expected to an expanding lineup of first-run programs and TV series available subscription free. Technically, Cypher isn’t a Roku original content production. The rights to stream…
Research: Disney+ Nearly Reached No. 3 U.S. SVOD Service In 2020
In the last quarter of 2020, Disney+ closed in on Hulu and nearly overtook the third place for the biggest streaming service in the United States for the year, according to data released this week by streaming guide service JustWatch. The research found that relative…
Ultra HD Forum Updates HDR, Next Gen Audio Guidelines
The television industry’s Ultra HD Forum released this week Version 2.4 of its guidelines offering updated recommendations and specifications for over-the-top (OTT) distribution of Ultra HD content. At the same time, The Forum said it has upgraded its UHD service tracker giving more attention online…
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…
Some Broadcasters Expect Sea Change From 5G Cellular
The new NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) digital broadcast system is just rolling out in the United States, and already the industry is looking at the emergence of 5G wireless as the potential future for digital content access around the world. A growing number of television…
CBS All Access Inks Multi Year Deal For UEFA Match Coverage
American sports fans jonesing for a live game of any kind during this age of the coronavirus may take some delight from the announcement Thursday that ViacomCBS has reached a multi-platform agreement making the CBS All Access and CBS Sports OTT streaming platforms the exclusive…
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