First, some good news for advertising-based video on demand (AVOD) providers: as consumers tighten their purse strings amid soaring inflation and recession fears, more people will be cutting down on ...

Streaming has become a cornerstone of modern entertainment, but the landscape is shifting. While subscription-based platforms like Netflix and Disney+ once dominated, a new wave of competitors has ...

The fact that no FAST or AVOD service releases performance stats for the U.S. market has long been a bone of contention when trying to assess how free streaming is growing. A few services — Pluto, ...

As an inflation is expected to give way to a recession in the coming year, consumers are expected to become more and more frugal with their money, including what they spend on entertainment. It’s ...

Is AVOD the solution for struggling indie doc filmmakers? “Beyond Utopia,” “A Still Small Voice,” “Deep Rising,” “It’s Only Life After All,” “Going Varsity in Mariachi,” and “The Grab” are all ...

All too often, the monetization discussion revolves around a simplistic binary that expands only slightly on the old ad-supported broadcast model for home-based media and entertainment: subscription ...

As AVOD models gain traction, the combination of automation and human intuition will ultimately help deliver the right balance for both viewers and advertisers When you purchase through links on our ...

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics set significant viewing records in the U.S. and other countries around the world. NBCU reported that the ceremony was the most-watched since the 2012 ...

As the TV industry comes together in Cannes for MIPCOM, the growth of FAST is not restricted to the U.S. anymore: "Our mission is to entertain the planet!" By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor ...

As a consumer, do you prefer paying a bit more to skip the ads on a video streaming platform or paying less and dealing with the ads? If you prefer paying less and sitting through the ads, you’re not ...

We’ve witnessed the subscription video on demand (SVOD) market expanding at a remarkable rate over recent years, yet as we approach the end of 2022, there are signs that the market is slowing down.

Kelly Day, Amazon Prime Video Vice President, International, outlined the company’s localization efforts across Asia, Europe and Latin America in the first keynote session of APOS 2022, which is ...