Amazon buys MGM for $8.45 billion
As rumoured a week ago, etail and cloud giant Amazon is buying movie studio MGM to augment its Amazon Prime SVoD offering.
As rumoured a week ago, etail and cloud giant Amazon is buying movie studio MGM to augment its Amazon Prime SVoD offering.
The video content arms race continues unabated, with Amazon looking at dropping $9 billion on movie studio MGM.
It is being widely reported that US communications group AT&T is expected to do a mega deal with cable channel Discovery to boost its SVoD offering.
Two reports analysing operators’ 5G performances in the US and the UK have put EE and AT&T slightly ahead of their peers respectively, but there are no sweeping winners.
TMUS is expanding its reliance on Google to deliver digital products, including a premium TV service, to its customers.
UK telecoms regulator is adapting quickly to its new role as chief digital censor and wants there to be less horridness allowed on video sharing platforms.
AT&T is upbeat about its performance in the final quarter of last year – and 2020 as a whole – thanks largely to customer growth at its mobile and HBO Max video streaming unit.
The BBC has announced that its iPlayer online streaming service experienced a huge surge in viewing in the first full week of 2021…and it’s a pretty safe bet that no one is surprised to hear that.
AT&T has agreed to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Sony for close to US$1.2 billion, and is reportedly in the latter stages of a sale process for DirecTV, which could be worth about $15 billion.
Private equity firms are said to be in talks to acquire large minority stakes in the US telco’s DirecTV, AT&T Now, and U-Verse units.
Mobile streaming video startup Quibi, which was backed by Hollywood, has been forced to shut down after its core narrative failed to persuade.
A perfect storm for cinema operators sees Disney join the stampede towards streaming new movies direct to consumers.
UK telco group BT is preparing its network for the expected explosion in 8K video and AR/VR usage.
Things have not gone according to plan for hot, new streaming service Quibi this year, so now it’s apparently exploring its strategic options.
Consumers in South Korea could soon end up paying twice to watch Netflix thanks a proposed new law.
Facebook hopes to benefit from the COVID-fuelled growth in home working by adding several major collaboration apps to its Portal video-calling service.
Consumers in major global media markets are willing to subscribe to between two and four additional video streaming services, which translates to a possible 3 billion more SVoD contracts.
Disney’s streaming service and media networks held together the spreadsheets as COVID-19 ravaged the company’s financial results.
As expected, audio streaming giant Spotify has officially made the leap into video by using it to augment its podcasting strategy.
The coronavirus pandemic forced the world into some very dramatic changes, with connectivity critical for continuity; but what are the trends worth keeping an eye on now?
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