WarnerMedia’s streaming service won’t be a three-tiered product, analyst says

Early word from AT&T executives suggested that WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service would be a three-tiered product. But one industry analyst says that’s not so.

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Hulu Says 70% of Its 82 Million Viewers Are on Ad-Supported Plan

Hulu sells an ad-free version of its streaming service, just like Netflix. But the majority of Hulu subscribers are on the $5.99-per-month ad-supported plan, which is half the price of the $11.99 n…

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Netflix, Amazon Generate Twice as Much Revenue in U.K. as Broadcasters’ Streamers

The combined revenues for Netflix and Amazon Prime in the U.K. amounted to more than double the total revenue generated by the streaming services of Britain’s five biggest broadcasters in 2018, a n…

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NBC News Now ad-supported streaming service launches

After missing its planned early May launch, NBC News Now has officially arrived with eight hours of continuous programming Monday through Friday.

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CBS, Viacom Shares Up on Merger Speculation

CNBC says merger talks to start in mid-June

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US Subscription Video Landscape 2019

Subscription-based video is growing across a broad spectrum of services, from on-demand platforms like Netflix to aggregators that deliver live TV over the internet.

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Deeper Dive—The unlikely odds that Charter licenses Comcast’s X1

Charter made a surprising admission this week when CEO Tom Rutledge said that his company had held discussions with Comcast about potentially licensing its X1 video platform.

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Dish Network loses 266K satellite subscribers as HBO spat continues

Dish Network is still feeling the affects of no HBO—particularly as the final season of “Game of Thrones” plays out—and it’s resulting in accelerated subscriber losses.

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DirecTV, Dish and other top providers lost 1.28M video subscribers in Q1: Informitv

Satellite TV providers DirecTV and Dish Network once again accounted for a large majority of pay TV subscriber losses in the first quarter, according to Informitv’s new Multiscreen Index.

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CBS says Q1 revenues up 11%, streaming service subscriptions up 71%

CBS released its first-quarter financial results today and boasted an 11% increase in overall revenues and 71% annual growth in subscribers to its direct-to-consumer streaming video services.

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NBCU’s new ShoppableTV feature connects viewers directly to e-commerce sites

NBCUniversal announced the launch of ShoppableTV, a new feature that uses QR codes within TV shows to direct viewers to e-commerce websites.

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YouTube Now Has 2 Billion Monthly Users, Who Watch 250 Million Hours on TV Screens Daily

Has YouTube become the new center of gravity for primetime? That’s the narrative it wants Madison Avenue to believe — especially as it relates to coveted younger demos. The Google-owned…

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OTT 영향력 갈수록↑…넷플릭스ㆍ옥수수 ‘쌍벽’

- 엠브레인 트렌드모니터 조사…OTT 인지도ㆍ이용경험↑- “OTT, TV 시청습관 더욱 바꿀 것…넷플릭스 이용의향 多”[헤럴드경제=정윤희 기자]TV시청 습관이 급변하면서 넷플릭스를 비롯한 온라인 동영상 서비스(OTT)의 영향력이 갈수록 높아지고 있다. 시장조사업체 엠브레인 트렌드모니터가 전국 만 19~59세 성인남녀 1000명을 대상으로 OTT서비스에 대한 설문조사를 실시한 결과, 다양한 OTT 서비스 중 아는 브랜드가 없다고 말하는 시청자는 단 2.6.

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