“Our long-term aspiration for Peacock is to balance out our overall media business,” Shell said during NBCU parent Comcast ’s third-quarter earnings call today. Assessing how the various parts of Comcast’s overall video business...
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Read More“Really focused making it easier for users to find live streams on YouTube, so we’re rolling out the Live rings feature on mobile,” Mohan wrote. Really focused making it easier for users to find livestreams on @YouTube so we’re...
Read MoreGoogle Australia’s Managing Director of Sales, Rhys Williams, said Australian YouTube viewers who tuned in on TV screens in March 2021 engaged with videos that were 30% longer than those viewed on mobile and desktop – and...
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Read MoreViacomCBS is doing everything it can in a bit for Paramount+ anchor tenancy, but will it be enough? Should you enable Netflix’s new Downloads for You feature? Chapter 1: Topline Paramount+ features (1:20) Paramount+ will launch on March 4th in the US. ViacomCBS has lowered the entry-level price to $4.99 […]
Read MoreWelcome to the 549th edition of the VideoNuze podcast, with my weekly partner Colin Dixon of nScreenMedia. On this week’s podcast, Colin and I dig into Roku’s strong Q4 and full year 2020 results which were reported yesterday. As has been the case for the past several years, “platform” revenue, which includes Roku’s advertising business, led the way. Platform revenue reached $471.2 million in …
Read MoreWelcome to the 548th edition of the VideoNuze podcast, with my weekly partner Colin Dixon of nScreenMedia. Disney turned in yet another strong quarter of direct-to-consumer streaming growth, with 146.4 million subscribers at the end of its fiscal Q1. Disney+ added 21.2 million to reach 94.9 million subscribers. The only hiccup was that Hulu with Live TV dropped by 100K to 4 million subscribers….
Read MoreNetflix spent less on advertising in the U.S. than WarnerMedia’s HBO, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus while still managing to boost its North American subscriber count by 9% to 73.9 million
Read MoreWelcome to the 546th edition of the VideoNuze podcast, with my weekly partner Colin Dixon of nScreenMedia. Comcast reported its Q4 and full year 2020 this week and as usual, the divergence between residential video and broadband subscribers was stark. Remarkably, Comcast now has nearly 10 million more residential broadband subscribers (28.3 million) than residential video subscribers (18.9 mill…
Read MoreAlmost a third of TV viewers can only be reached by streaming, yet 90% of TV ad revenue still goes to traditional linear TV. Tubi and Roku are working to close this ad spending gap. Netflix had a banner 2020, but signs are it has a value problem in Latin […]
Read MoreIn 2020, Disney+ was tops for original streamed movies. This year, Netflix and HBO Max are getting serious about movies and the Disney+ streaming movie wars will get hot. AT&T throws in the towel on vMVPDs, but it could have been so different. Chapter 1: Nielsen data on originals and […]
Read MoreHappy New Year and welcome to a new year of the VideoNuze podcast, with my weekly partner Colin Dixon of nScreenMedia. Roku continues to grow, announcing over 50 million active accounts at the end of 2020. On this week’s podcast Colin and I dig into the data that Roku revealed. The explosion of premium content for streaming no doubt is helping Roku’s account growth and viewership. A recent […]
Read MoreWhen the history of the so-called streaming wars is eventually written, 2020 will be looked back on as an absolutely pivotal period. That’s what prompted the final episode of the year for Variety podcast “Strictly Business” to dispense with the usual guest interview and instead feature a marathon monologue filled with candid assessments of how […]
Read MoreWhen the history of the so-called streaming wars is eventually written, 2020 will be looked back on as an absolutely pivotal period. That’s what prompted the final episode of the year for Variety podcast “Strictly Business” to dispense with the usual guest interview and instead feature a marathon monologue filled with candid assessments of how […]
Read More2020 has been a challenging year for live sports production. Those involved in remote production services have had arguably the most challenging 10 months they have ever faced. On this special roundtable episode of The SVG Podcast, top executives from leading remote production service providers join us to discuss the current state of the business, how it is impacting their operations and future[…]
Read MorevMVPD price increases, the continued decline of pay TV, Netflix growing in the face of new competition. All were important stories in 2020, but none of them made our top ten list. Listen on to find out what did. To download the free report on kid streaming behavior discussed in […]
Read MorevMVPD price increases, the continued decline of pay TV, Netflix growing in the face of new competition. All were important stories in 2020, but none of them made our top ten list. Listen on to find out what did. To download the free report on kid streaming behavior discussed in […]
Read MoreI’m pleased to present the 541st edition of the VideoNuze podcast, with my weekly partner Colin Dixon of nScreenMedia. This week Colin and I discuss the recent activation of a Showtime channel within the free Pluto TV service. Showtime and Pluto TV are both part of ViacomCBS and in this case Showtime is tapping into free streaming to drive more subscriptions and higher brand awareness. Colin s[…]
Read MoreOld media is all-in on subscription streaming. But with growth slowing, premium providers like Showtime are looking to free virtual Linear TV to boost their digital growth. Will others follow in 2021? Do you want to understand why Netflix rolled out two new features for parents of under-12 children? You […]
Read MoreLinear pay TV Q3 surprise growth saw traditional operators lowering losses, and vMVPDs making big gains. What is going on, and can the industry repeat it in the fourth quarter? Chapter 1: Linear pay TV and vMVPD Q3 growth (1:30) The linear pay TV industry unexpectedly grew in the third […]
Read MoreI’m pleased to present the 539th edition of the VideoNuze podcast, with my weekly partner Colin Dixon of nScreenMedia. Despite gloomy predictions, the pay-TV industry in the U.S. turned in a relatively healthy third quarter in 2020 , likely gaining subscribers. This was due to robust additions by virtual pay-TV providers (led by Hulu + Live TV and YouTube TV) and moderating losses by traditio[…]
Read MoreI’m pleased to present the 538th edition of the VideoNuze podcast, with my weekly partner Colin Dixon of nScreenMedia. Disney reported its fiscal year and Q4 results yesterday, with the highlight being that Disney+ had 73.7 million subscribers at the end of the quarter. Coincidentally, yesterday was exactly one year since Disney+ launch. Disney had initially forecast Disney+ would reach 60-9[…]
Read MoreEvery Friday we release a recap of the week in streaming on YouTube. Want to watch this week’s episode? Click here to watch . We asked ourselves – could we give you the entire week in streaming news in less than 10 minutes? Well it turns out we can. Introducing, “The Streaming Insider” , our new YouTube show which takes you “behind-the-stream” of the biggest news in cord-cutting. The S[…]
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