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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. [...]

21 Feb 2023

Discord Stage Channels

Discord Stage Channels adds Twitch-like video and screen sharing Discord is already a beloved communications platform for YouTube and Twitch’s livestreaming communities, but now the company is taking its own first significant step into the livestreaming industry. Announced today, Discord has updated its Stage Channels feature to support video, screen sharing, and a text chat for viewers to interact with hosts and each other. The update is available now and is supported across all Discord desktop and mobile applications. Stage Channels were first introduced as a live audio feature in March 2021, enabling users to broadcast conversations between designated speakers and moderators to a room of virtual listeners, much like Twitter Spaces or Clubhouse. Where Stage Channels were initially limited [...]

20 Feb 2023

Plex

Plex peut également identifier les génériques de fin des films et séries pour les sauter Plex, le media-center que vous pouvez installer sur n’importe quel ordinateur pour indexer tout type de contenu, gagne une nouvelle fonctionnalité bien pratique pour les amateurs de « binge-watching ». Si vous aimez enchaîner les épisodes de vos séries préférées aussi vite que possible, l’app peut désormais identifier le générique de fin et afficher un bouton pour les sauter. Ce qui, dans le cas d’une série, permet de passer dans la foulée à l’épisode suivant. Cette fonctionnalité courante sur les services de streaming est proposée sur tous les (rares) contenus proposés directement par Plex. Elle est aussi disponible sur vos propres contenus, mais un abonnement [...]

20 Feb 2023

Bing

Bing surprend les utilisateurs par ses réponses ! Le Chatbot IA de Microsoft surprend les utilisateurs par ses réactions jugées « déséquilibrées ». Le chatbot IA de Microsoft est dévoilé à la face du monde et les utilisateurs essayent la version Beta. Les rapports qui sont disponibles à propos de l’outil IA de Microsoft sur Reddit et sur Twitter ne disent pas du bien du Chatbot IA. Ce dernier n’est pas vraiment poli et respectueux des utilisateurs qui sollicitent ses services. Pire, il manipule parfois leur sentiment et ment même s’il le faut. Quelques cas de réactions Un internaute a partagé son expérience avec le Chatbot IA de Microsoft. L’intéressé a voulu connaître les horaires de projection du nouveau film Avatar. Bing [...]

16 Feb 2023

SVOD

SVOD viewers prefer watching new shows on subscription streaming over live TV Research from Aluma has revealed that if a programme is available simultaneously on both a subscription video on-demand (SVOD) streaming service and a live TV channel, adult SVOD viewers are more than twice as likely to prefer the former option. The study took place in December 2022 and surveyed 1,947 US adult broadband users who were charge of purchasing media services for their household and that watch SVOD services on TV. Aluma balanced the sample to represent SVOD viewers and their households. The survey identified the reasons most age cohorts prefer subscription streaming services to live TV channels. Namely, it has less advertising; viewers can watch shows at [...]

16 Feb 2023

Meta’s VR

Meta’s VR hellscape might soon be invaded by children Meta’s planning to open up Horizon Worlds to users aged 13 to 17, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. In an internal memo viewed by the outlet, Meta says it wants to make the virtual reality-based social platform available to younger users as early as next month. The company first opened Horizon Worlds to users 18 and up in 2021 but has since been struggling to keep users coming back to the platform. Last October, the WSJ reported that Meta lowered its goal of reaching 500,000 monthly active users by the end of the year to just 280,000 and that most users don’t return after one month of [...]