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Netflix predicted to spend $17.3 billion on content this year
Expected to surpass $26 billion by 2028
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RTMP vs SRT: a matter of protocol
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French government urges SVoDs to invest locally
French parliament set to debate bill in early March
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Consumers take a shine to Disney Plus over Apple TV+
Survey shows dissatisfaction with Apple's product design
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Apple TV app coming to LG, Sony, Vizio smart TVs
Apple said the app will be made available "later this year"
Business
National Audit Office warns of streaming threat to BBC
Broadcaster cites BBC Studios as fending off competition
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Tidy! Gavin & Stacey helps BBC iPlayer to best-ever festive fortnight
iPlayer received 203 million requests over the festive period
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Mobile accounted for a quarter of all DAZN streaming in 2019
DAZN saw more than a half billion hours streamed in 2019
Business
Disney Plus already valued over $1 billion according to Barclays
Disney Plus already worth 69 per cent of Netflix's enterprise value
Features
2020: The year sports will go direct-to-consumer?
Imagen CEO Charlie Horrell outlines his predictions for 2020
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Streaming services ‘preparing for dynamic product placement’
Viewers could be targeted depending on what time of day they're watching
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2019 in broadcast and technology
How streaming, sport and HDR dominated broadcast news in 2019
Business
Netflix loses 1.1 million US subscribers to Disney Plus
Expects Netflix to hit or exceed Q4 forecast of 7.6 million subscriber additions
Features
Bingeing all the way
TVBEurope asks Ampere Analysis' Toby Holleran why streaming services are changing up their release models
Business
Sky, BritBox deal “highly unlikely”
Sky said the platform would not offer significant additional value for its customers
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Streaming services score over half of Golden Globes TV noms
Netflix leads nominations lists in both film and TV categories
Business
Netflix pledges “more transparency” on audience metrics
Head of original films Scott Stuber discusses measuring audience numbers
Business
netgem.tv partners with 12 ultrafast fibre providers
Reaches over a quarter of a million UK homes
Business
2020 to bring “even fiercer competition” in streaming wars
Future of esports and 5G discussed in new report from Kantar
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Netflix reaches “over 300 million pay-TV households”
Now available on all major pay-TV operators in France
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Amazon in talks with ISPs over possible Premier League streaming problems
Said to be concerned over capacity issues
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Starz launches international D2C streaming app
New app available in the UK, France and Germany
Technology
Verimatrix to power new Spanish OTT platform
Will provide a complete mutli-screen security solution to Plataforma Multimedia de Operadores
Technology
Deltatre’s AXIS powers BritBox across all platforms
Quickest timeframe Deltatre has ever brought service on BritBox's scale to market
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Disney denies claims of security breach on Disney Plus
Company admits it was surprised by deluge of subscribers on launch day
Content
Stranger Things strikes back against The Mandalorian
Parrot Analytics puts the Star Wars show in third place
Data Centre
UK viewers unlikely to take algorithm recommendations
Only 16.7 per cent of UK viewers take recommendations from within the app
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Disney Plus “to reach 101 million subscribers by 2025”
Major streaming subscriptions to double by 2025
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Western Europe launch date for Disney Plus confirmed
DisneyLife will be rebranded in the UK and Ireland
Features
Taking Streaming Tech TV+ to the right audience
How using Red Bee Media’s White-Label Proposition has enabled a Swedish tech conference to establish global thought leadership with a dedicated video site
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BritBox: “Nowhere else will you find as much great British TV and film”
BritBox execs talk to TVBEurope about today's launch
Business
Netflix: “We’re planning on taking spending up quite a bit”
CEO Reed Hastings responds to variable playback backlash
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A quarter of UK consumers “plan to subscribe to Disney Plus”
"Netflix remains the streaming king"
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Over 40 per cent of Germans see OTT-only future
Two-thirds prefer media libraries of TV channels to YouTube or Netflix