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03 Mar 2023

Largest TV brand

Google TV’s biggest partner, TCL, is overtaking LG as the world’s second-largest TV brand The biggest partner for Google TV, TCL, has reportedly surpassed LG as the largest TV brand (behind Samsung). Business Korea reports, citing data from Omdia, that the TV market currently sees TCL as the second-place slot in terms of units sold. TCL makes up 11.7% of the market, where LG is behind at 11.69%. Currently, the difference is reportedly around 30,000 units. But the trend is becoming clear at this point that TCL is taking LG’s spot. In Q3 2022, LG dropped to fourth place in the competition for most TV units sold. Samsung held 19.6% of the market, with TCL and Hisense taking the second [...]

03 Mar 2023

Sunrise

Sunrise launches OTT sports service with Green Streams Swiss telco Sunrise, a subsidiary of Liberty Global, has launched a new OTT premium pay-TV service on the Green Streams backend platform. The new MySports app provides subscribers with access to exclusive content such as the Swiss Hockey National League, the North American National Hockey League (NHL) or the FIA Formula E World Championship. The service is available on all major OTT device platforms such as Android TV and Apple TV as well as Android and iOS mobile phones, tablets and web. With the app, all National League games are available live and via replay as well as statistics and evaluations of the individual games and players and highlight clips. The service [...]

03 Mar 2023

Samsung TV Plus

Samsung TV Plus adds more free channels and shows Samsung has added three new channels to its free streaming service Samsung TV Plus. The Price is Right, Jamie Oliver, and Divorce Court channels are now available to watch for free in the US. To honor Women’s History Month in March, the service will also offer films featuring leading ladies of Hollywood on The Movie Hub and FilmRise Free Movies. Samsung TV Plus is one of the best perks of owning a Samsung TV. The service gives you tons of free video content to watch, with new channels added regularly. It currently offers you access to more than 250 premium channels spanning news, sports, entertainment, auto, and other genres. And you [...]

03 Mar 2023

Pluto TV

Streaming : accord entre Pluto TV et Facilotab Le service de télévision en streaming gratuit Pluto TV (Paramount) a signé un partenariat avec Facilotab, expert des tablettes simplifiées pour les seniors et les personnes en situation de handicap. Le but de cet accord est d’intégrer gratuitement la plateforme de streaming dans toutes les nouvelles tablettes Facilotab pour offrir une source de divertissement à ses utilisateurs. Le partenariat bénéficiera également à tous les utilisateurs de l'application Facilotab, qui peut être installée à partir de Google Play sur toutes les tablettes Android. Ainsi, ils bénéficieront du contenu vidéo gratuit mis à disposition par Paramount.

03 Mar 2023

New Starz-MGM+ bundle for US subscribers

Starz has announced a new partnership with Amazon to bundle MGM+ on Prime Video in the United States. Launching in the next few weeks, it will provide streamers with additional entertainment options for a monthly $11.99, representing a 20% discount on the combined price of both standalone subscriptions. “We are excited to join forces with Amazon to offer STARZ together with MGM+ to their millions of customers on Prime Video,” said Alison Hoffman, President of Domestic Networks for Starz. “Starz is a complementary service to general entertainment offerings, so we’re thrilled to see that bundling is now here and believe there will be many more bundling opportunities to come.” Subscribers will have access to Starz’ critically acclaimed series such as [...]

03 Mar 2023

FilmBox+ unveils

FilmBox+ unveils Smart Channels SPI International’s streaming service FilmBox+ has launched Smart Channels, specially curated playlists of on-demand content that play back-to-back in a similar fashion to traditional linear channels. These channels are fully digital and are exclusive to the FilmBox+ platform. In addition to FilmBox+’s VOD catalogue and linear channels, subscribers can now stream Smart Channels that are genre-specific or dedicated to particular content, actors or directors. FilmBox+ has rolled out 157 smart channels so far globally as well as across SPI’s core territories such as Europe, Adria region, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey, with channel availability varying by territory. More Smart Channels will be made available in the months to come. Commneting on the development, Haymi Behar, CMO [...]

03 Mar 2023

Streaming services up spend on sports rights

Subscription OTT services’ spend on sports rights globally is forecast to reach $8.5 billion this year. According to a new report by Ampere Analysis, this will be a 64% increase on the total in 2022. The research also predicts that the share of spend on sports rights by streaming platforms will increase in 2023 to reach 21% of global sports rights investment, up from 13% in 2022. Ampere uses the media analyst’s latest suite of data products: Sports – Media Rights, which tracks data on sports TV rights in the largest markets around the world, and Sports – Consumer, a regular series of consumer interviews covering sports fans in 12 countries around the world. Ampere notes that subscription OTT services’ [...]

03 Mar 2023

Quarterly fall in UK SVOD take-up

Newly released data from Barb’s Establishment Survey shows 19.42 million UK homes (67.7% of households) had access to a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service in Q4 2022. This represents a decrease of -0.6% decrease from 19.54 million in Q3 2022. Netflix and NOW saw quarterly drops in the number of UK homes with access to their services. 17.15 million homes had access to Netflix in Q4 2022, down -0.7% from 17.27 million in Q3 2022. And 1.88 million homes had access to NOW in Q4 2022, a decline of -7.6% from 2.04 million in Q3 2022. Amazon Prime Video remained on a par, with 13.12 million homes in Q4 2022, a slight increase of +0.1% from 13.11 million in Q3 2022. [...]