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...
Latin America:
HBO Max to become Max next February 27 in the region
by Virginia Anziano | Jan 24, 2024 | OTT / VOD
Audiovisual giant Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has finally set a date for the official launch of Max in Latin America. The new streaming platform, which will include the whole catalogs of its two current OTTs (HBO Max and Discovery+), is to launch on February 27. In...
Latin America:
Amazon relaunches MGM streaming service as MGM+ following content agreement with Lionsgate
by Hernán Amaya | Dec 18, 2023 | OTT / VOD
On December 18, Amazon announced its decision to expand its brand MGM+ throughout Latin America. The e-commerce company will rename its SVOD streaming service (monthly subscription), currently called MGM, in early 2024. In addition to rebranding its service, the OTT...