by Hernán Amaya | Mar 7, 2024 | OTT / VOD
Netflix takes a new step within the live sports segment. The streaming giant’s new proposal is a boxing fight between US former boxer Mike Tyson and US influencer Jake El Gallo Paul. The event is scheduled for next July 20 and will be aired live for the whole world...
Chile:
NBCUniversal activates Universal+ ad-supported version and launches it in partnership with VTR
by Hernán Amaya | Mar 4, 2024 | OTT / VOD
Premium channel package Universal+ variant as a streaming platform has just added an ad-supported version. The new option, which was activated by NBCUniversal on March 1, is available only through Chilean operator VTR for the time being. All the company’s Pay TV...
Latin America:
HBO Max becomes Max throughout the region
by Hernán Amaya | Feb 27, 2024 | OTT / VOD
As had been scheduled, audiovisual multinational Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) implemented the transformation of its main streaming platform in Latin America on February 27, when HBO Max became Max throughout Spanish-speaking Latin America, Brazil and the Caribbean. A...
Mexico:
Preliminary proposal aimed at having Amazon and Mercado Libre dissociate streaming services from e-commerce
by Hernán Amaya | Feb 15, 2024 | OTT / VOD
The Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece), an autonomous regulatory agency created by virtue of the Mexican Constitution, has issued a preliminary report on the Mexican e-commerce industry, in which it states that the conditions are such that there is no...
Latin America:
Funimation to cease operations worldwide next April
by Hernán Amaya | Feb 9, 2024 | OTT / VOD
Sony has announced that its anime streaming platform Funimation will cease to operate in all parts of the world on April 2, on which date all its users will have their subscriptions automatically transferred to Crunchyroll, the anime and Japanese content streaming...