All AVOD articles
-
Daily News
Accedo and Brightcove collaborate with Iraq’s Al Sharqiya Group
Accedo and Brightcove announced a collaboration with Al Sharqiya Group to enhance its 1001 streaming service with the introduction of one of Iraq’s first subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platforms, alongside live linear channels.
-
News
Eastern Europe OTT revenues to climb 82% by 2029
Streaming revenues for 22 Eastern European countries will climb 82% by 2029, according to new figures from Digital Research.
-
Daily News
Bedrock supports AVOD platform M6+
European streaming tech company Bedrock announced the upcoming release of M6+, a new AVOD platform launched by Groupe M6.
-
Daily News
Bitmovin report highlights growth opportunities for 2024
Bitmovin announced highlights from its seventh annual Video Developer Report, saying the latest report reflects a turbulent economic year for the industry but one that is primed to seize many opportunities for growth in 2024.
-
News
Amazon Prime Video to Start Showing Ads
Amazon has confirmed plans to introduce adverts to its Prime Video streaming service this year. Customers will see the ads unless they pay extra for an ad-free experience.
-
Industry Trends
What do Streamers Want? Sitcoms, Police Drama and Reality Shows
With streamers under pressure from investors to slash costs and turn a profit the decade of rampant content spend is over. Appetite for new shows remains high however if producers can find the right project to sell them, reports Adrian Pennington.
-
News
Tubi Hires David Salmon to Lead International Expansion
Fox Corporation’s AVOD streaming service has appointed David Salmon as Executive Vice President and Managing Director, International.
-
News
Paramount to Combine My5 and Pluto TV Platforms in UK
Paramount is to combine Channel 5’s broadcast video-on-demand (BVOD) service My5 with its FAST service Pluto TV in the UK in 2024.
-
Video
Whip Media FASTrack™: The FAST/AVOD Reporting Solution for Small-Medium Sized Distributors
Whip Media’s latest innovation was designed to help solve the unavoidable challenges that have come from the recent explosion of FAST and AVOD. Whip Media FASTrack™ is the FAST/AVOD reporting solution for distributors who are dealing with messy, manual and inconsistent viewership and financial reporting across content partners. FASTrack will ...
-
Thought Leadership
What’s Happening in the Video Advertising space?
Whether it’s cinema, broadcast TV, YouTube, or TikTok, these services wouldn’t exist at the scale they are today without advertising. But as video services, tech, and video consumption evolve, the role of advertising is changing as well.
-
Thought Leadership
The day content providers became ads managers, or how FAST is changing content providers’ business and pushing them to get new skills
Professional press, analysts, and even media agreed that FAST should be seen not as competition, but as an additional source of revenue to SVOD and broadcast licensing. Everybody is jumping into this new distribution model by leveraging massive dormant catalogues of old content, from small boutiques to independent network and ...
-
Thought Leadership
True OTT Ad Monitoring Requires Real Testing Devices
With advertising-based streaming video booming, AVOD and FAST channels rising in popularity and top subscription-based streaming services adding cheaper ad-supported tiers, these advancing trends come with their own frustrations. Dynamically inserted ads are often riddled with errors, leaving customers, advertisers, and service providers unhappy. In this opinion piece, Witbe’s Yoann ...
-
News
Hollywood Writers’ Strike: Directors Agree New Deal
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) membership has voted by a large margin to agree a three-year deal with major studios and streamers, averting the possibility of another stoppage in Hollywood to add to the difficulties caused by the writers’ strike.
-
News
Canal+ Takes ‘Significant’ Minority Stake in Pan Regional Streamer Viu
France’s Canal+ has taken a significant minority stake in pan regional streaming service Viu.
-
Daily News
Bedrock supports RTL+ in Hungary
Streaming technology company Bedrock launched a direct-to-consumer service for the newly rebranded RTL+ in Hungary.
-
Industry Trends
The Future of OTT Business Models: Localisation and Personalisation
The death of terrestrial TV has been a repeated topic of discussion ever since the first streaming services gained popularity. But how true is it today? Andrew Williams gets to grips with the reality…
-
Industry Trends
DTG2023: The Media Bill, OFCOM and ITVX Forge the Bigger Picture
The DTG’s annual conference, hosted by TV/radio presenter Sasha Twining, covered a dozen subjects under the banner of The Bigger Picture. Monetisation has cast a nasty shadow over streaming, and consumers are consumed by financial concerns that have shunted them towards nostalgia. George Jarrett reports.
-
News
Fox Forms Tubi Media Group Under Paul Cheesbrough
Fox Corporation has formed Tubi Media Group under the leadership of newly appointed CEO, Paul Cheesbrough.