Tag: online video

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Netflix is adding subscribers again, as its founder steps down

The big news from Netflix’s financial results yesterday was that its co-founder Reed Hastings is stepping down from his co-CEO role.
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Apple Music boss adds Apple TV+ business to his responsibilities

Oliver Schusser is one of the longest-serving executives in Apple’s music business, from the iTunes days through to Apple Music now.
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Report: SVOD services to slow growth in original content spend

Recent years have been boomtimes for TV production companies, thanks to the emergence of streaming video services and their enormous budgets.
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Viberate explores the Netflix effect for artist Sofia Carson

Analytics firm Viberate has been digging into the Netflix bump for artist and actor Sofia Carson, star of Purple Hearts.
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Nearly half a million UK video on demand subscriptions cancelled in Q2

In Q2 (April to June), the number of households that subscribed to at least one VoD service in the UK fell to 16.42 million.
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Video streaming subscriptions grew to 1.3bn in 2021

We like to keep an eye on trends and growth in the video streaming market, as a comparison to the music streaming world.
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American Songwriter’s Twitch channel to air live music shows

Twitch is fast becoming a music TV network in its own right, thanks to the number of channels launching live shows focusing on artists and songs.
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China now has 873m people watching short-form videos

Earlier this month, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released one of its regular and wide-ranging reports on the development of China's internet network, and the ways its “netizens” use it. The...
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Tools: Rotor

In an age where artists and their teams need a constant output of visual content for an increasing amount of releases on a growing number of platforms, Rotor has a clear value proposition. With the click of a button, and...
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Amazon Prime Video service is being used by 175 million people

Sorry, there were no meaningful new Amazon Music statistics in Amazon’s quarterly financial results yesterday. 55 million users (“nearly all” of whom were paid subscribers) was the last official figure in January...
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Chinese video platform Bilibili set to reach 200m users

Bilibili began as a streaming platform for animation and gaming, but now hosts a much wider range of video, including music – and while Bilibili’s repository of buzzy, mid-length content makes comparisons to YouTube...
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We Are OFK: a virtual band with interactive videos

We’ve been thinking a lot about synthetic reality – virtual artists for example – and the crossover between gaming and music this year. Last night brought news of the latest experiment around all this: a TV show...