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Samsung Ads Releases Streaming Index of Domestic SmartTV Data

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FierceVideo reported that Samsung Ads had released its ‘Streaming Index’ with metrics from the 45 million devices in its US SmartTV installed base. Samsung Ads used data from subscription video on …

Tags:Advertising| AVOD| Samsung| Smart TV| Streaming Video| SVOD

Amazon And MGM Close $8.5 Billion Merger

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon and MGM announced that a deal for the tech giant to buy the studio for $8.5 billion had closed. MGM has a library of 4,000 films and 17,000 TV show …

Tags:Amazon| AVOD| Movies & Content| SVOD

Everyone in the M&E Industry Wants the Same Thing … Viewers

by Andy Marken

You may not realize it, but the entertainment food chain has changed dramatically over the past few years. In fact, according to MPA’s (Motion Picture Association’s) head, Charles Rinkin, it’s on the cusp of …

Tags:Broadcast| Content Creation| Movies & Content| Streaming Video| SVOD| USA

Streaming is Old at Two

by Andy Marken

Looking down from the top of the Hollywood Hills, it’s impossible to imagine what a beating the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry has taken in recent years. According to many, it’s all been caused …

Tags:Amazon| Disney| Movies & Content| Netflix| Streaming Video| SVOD

What is SkyShowtime and where can you get it?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SkyShowtime, the new streaming service from Comcast and ViacomCBS has got approval to start in business in Europe and will launch in 20 countries later this year – mainly the countries …

Tags:Europe| Streaming Video| SVOD

Content is a Small Part of Streaming Leadership

by Andy Marken

Shortly after Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first web site, someone made the profound statement that, “if it’s on the Internet, it should be free!” So, how’s that working out for you? “Head down, …

Tags:Amazon| Apple| Netflix| Streaming Video| SVOD

Links Week Starting 24th January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Sky Is Largest TV Company by Revenue …

Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Ericsson| Europe| Game Playing| Google| Litigation| Netflix| Patents| Sky| Streaming Dongles| SVOD| The Metaverse| ViewSonic| Windows

Tizen Smart TVs claim 27% of US broadband homes

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Parks Associates said that in Q3 2021, 27% of US broadband subscribers reported the Samsung Tizen Smart TV is their primary device for consuming video content. Eric Sorensen, Senior Contributing Analyst, …

Tags:broadband| internet| Samsung| Streaming Video| SVOD| USA

Vizio SmartCast Now has 15M Users

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At a Needham conference, Vizio said that it now has 15 million active SmartCast users up from 12 million in March 2021. The CFO, Adam Townsend, said that more than 85% …

Tags:AVOD| Smart TV| SVOD| USA| Vizio

Cord Cutting in 2021. Antennas Selling Well

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol newsletter posted an article that looked at developments in streaming this year and categorised 2021 as the ‘post-cable’ year. One of the interesting snippets was that the article said that …

Tags:Antennas| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Streaming Video| SVOD| TV Viewing| USA