by Hernán Amaya | Jan 6, 2020 | OTT / VOD
The Argentine government has enacted a law that levies an 8% tax on all foreign platforms and apps providing digital services. The list includes OTTs operating in Argentina such as Netflix, Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video, as well as apps such as Spotify, AirBnb and...
by Hernán Amaya | Jan 6, 2020 | Audiovisual Market in General
ViacomCBS (merger between Viacom and CBS, effective in early December 2019) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with beIN Media Group to acquire a 49% stake in Miramax, a global film and television studio up to now solely owned by beIN, which will keep...
by Hernán Amaya | Dec 22, 2019 | OTT / VOD
The Argentine Soccer Association (AFA) has officially launched its new OTT platform, which goes by the name of AFA Play. “In addition to VOD content, we will have live content,” AFA Commercial and Marketing Manager Leandro Petersen told TAVI Latam during the launch...
by Hernán Amaya | Dec 19, 2019 | Pay TV
Discovery has acquired Latin American Golf company, which operates Golf Channel Latin America, a Pay TV channel. Its former owners were Simple Networks LLC and Fornaluz Productions S.A., an affiliate of Inversiones Bahia. Discovery’s bet on golf is not new. Earlier...
by Hernán Amaya | Dec 17, 2019 | OTT / VOD
For the first time, Netflix has unveiled subscribers count data for Latin America. It had 29.4 million paid users as of the end of third quarter 2019. The information was released by the company in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which also...
