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Disney Plus will become world’s largest SVoD player by 2025
A new report from Digital TV Research suggests that Disney Plus will surpass Netflix to become the leading global SVoD player in terms of...
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Disney Plus ‘has hit some headwinds’ warns CEO
Bob Chapek warns the company expects to add “low single-digit millions” of streaming subscribers in Q4
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Feature: Are independent voices becoming lost in streaming TV shuffle?
Navdeep Saini, co-founder and CEO of DistroScale, parent company of DistroTV, looks at the Covid content collapse, where the streaming market is headed, and...
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Disney Plus beats expectations again
Streamer is half way to the company's own target 230 million to 260 million subscribers by 2024
Production & Post
Disney Plus receives over 70 Emmy nominations
The Crown and The Mandalorian topped the list of programmes with the most nominees, scoring 24 each
Business
Ofcom ‘to be given SVoD regulatory powers’
Government reportedly want to "level the playing field" between broadcasters and VoD services
Business
Disney plans to close 100 international TV channels
CEO Bob Chapek said Disney doesn't want to be left behind in the move to viewing content online
Media Delivery
Disney Plus adds another 8.7 million global subs
Streamer has now reached 103 million global subscribers
Media Management
Disney Plus leverages AWS for global roll-out
Streamer is using over 50 different technologies from AWS, including machine learning, database, storage, content delivery, and analytics
Media Delivery
Analyst: Netflix to lose European market share, but remain market leader
HBO Max's growth to be hampered by current licensing deals
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Disney Plus, HBO Max to drive Eastern Europe SVoD subs
Digital TV Research forecasts 40 million SVoD subscriptions in the region by 2026 by 2026
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Disney Plus reaches 100 million subscribers
It took Netflix around six years to reach the same figure
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Analyst: Disney Plus subs to overtake Netflix in next five years
According to Digital TV Research, much of the subscriber growth will be driven by India's Disney Plus Hotstar
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Disney Plus at 100m subscriber milestone
Official figures released yesterday show the streaming service at 94.9 million subscribers as of 2 January, 2021, an increase of eight million from December...
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App Annie: Mobile video streaming up by 40 per cent in 2020
“The world has forever changed. While people stay at home across the world, we saw mobile habits accelerate by three years,” said Theodore Krantz,...
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This is the way: The Mandalorian is most pirated TV show of 2020
2020 saw a number of new series enter the top 10 list.
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Disney Plus smashes targets again, aims for 260 million subs by 2024
Disney CEO Bob Chapek said the huge popularity of Disney Plus has exceeded the company’s “wildest expectations.”
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Analyst: Disney Plus growth curve will continue to climb
Digital TV Research predicts in total, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, Apple TV Plus, Netflix and HBO Max will have 678 million paying SVoD subscribers...
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Disney Plus smashes expectations as subs hits 73.7 million
Platform reaches 2024 subscriber goal within 12 months of operation, but may need more baby Yodas and original content offerings to maintain (and retain)...
Business
Disney restructures to focus on D2C streaming platforms
Kareem Daniel named as head of the company’s new media and entertainment distribution group.
Media Delivery
Analysis: Disney Plus’ European IPTV partnerships “have had little impact”
New report from Enders Analysis looks at European TV and video subscription platforms
Media Delivery
Disney’s Magic Streaming Kingdom
Analyst predicts the streamer will reach 155 millions global subs in the next four years
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Disney Plus lets viewers join a GroupWatch of its TV shows and films
The new feature is available immediately in the US and will launch in Europe this autumn
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Analyst: Netflix, Disney and Amazon will control half the world’s SVoD subs by 2025
Digital TV Research predict SVoD revenues for 138 countries will reach $100 billion by 2025; double from the $50 billion recorded in 2019.
Business
Analyst: SVoD world faces splitting into two tiers
According to Moody's analyst Neil Begley, smaller SVoD players need to partner up or be acquired in order to compete with the big players
Production & Post
Disney Plus (and Baby Yoda) win their first Emmy Awards
The Mandalorian won the streamer's first ever Emmys
Media Delivery
Google ‘working on streaming service aggregator’
Kaleidoscope appears to be aiming to unify access for different streaming services including Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus and Netflix
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Disney Plus has already reached its five-year target for subscribers
SVoD now has 60+ million subscribers worldwide
Media Delivery
Kantar: Amazon led new SVoD sign-ups during Q2 2020
Amazon's share of new subscribers reached 45.1 per cent during the period, up from 12.9 per cent in Q1
Production & Post
Disney Plus, Quibi and Apple TV Plus score first major Emmy nominations
Netflix leads the way in terms of total nominations with a staggering 160 nods
Media Delivery
LTN Global and Encompass expand IP transport deal, Viaccess-Orca rolls out 5G-compatible VR player, and more
TVBEurope rounds up the latest product and tech news from LTN Global/Encompass, Viaccess-Orca, and Disney+
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Sky promises HDR live sport will launch in 2021
Platform now supports Disney Plus in HDR
Production & Post
Getting Hamilton from the stage to the screen to the stream
“ knew exactly what to do,” said director Thomas Kail. “My job was to not get in the way of that.”
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Disney Plus to launch in eight more European countries
Streamer to launch in eight markets across Western and Northern Europe
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Disney Plus signs up over 4 million UK subscribers
Already the third most popular SVoD in the UK
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Disney Plus, Netflix set for subscriber boom
Global SVoD subscriptions will increase by 519 million between 2019 and 2025
Data Centre
Coronavirus expected to drive increase in Western Europe’s SVoD subscribers
45 million new subscribers expected to sign up to SVoD services in 2020
Media Consumption
Disney Plus predicted to hit 220+ million subscribers by 2024
Would be almost four times Disney's own subscriber target
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Disney Plus reaches 50 million subscribers globally
Could meet the company's target of 60-90 million global subs four years early
Data Centre
Disney Plus ‘hits 5 million app downloads’ on day one in Europe
Figures are for the mobile app only
Media Delivery
Disney Plus comes to EMEA
As Disney Plus rolls out across many EMEA countries, OWNZONES’ Bill Admans discusses its successes, challenges and predictions
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Disney Plus postpones French launch, will reduce bandwidth in Europe
Launch postponed at the request of the French government