by Virginia Anziano | Apr 12, 2023 | OTT / VOD
At an event held in the United States and streamed worldwide, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) unveiled its new streaming platform, called Max. The service will debut first in the United States, on May 23, and then it will expand to Latin America in the northern...
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Netflix falls short of ad-supported tier initial viewership targets and lets advertisers take money back
by Virginia Anziano | Dec 16, 2022 | OTT / VOD
The new low-priced ad-supported tier launched by Netflix last November has failed to come up to the viewership targets expected for the first stage, as a consequence of which the company has decided to allow advertisers to apply for reimbursement of the money paid for...
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Internet Day 2022: DirecTV Go already available for commercialization by Argentine ISPs
by Hernán Amaya | May 18, 2022 | OTT / VOD
DirecTV, a Pay TV company owned by Grupo Werthein, has adopted in Argentina a strategy it has been implementing in Brazil and Colombia. It has decided to outsource the commercialization of DirecTV Go, its streaming Pay TV service, through local ISPs (Internet Service...
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Netflix plans to launch live streaming
by Virginia Anziano | May 16, 2022 | OTT / VOD
Netflix executives are exploring a new field. According to US website Deadline, the streaming platform plans to add live shows to its content. The information published on the specialized website is that live content in development includes unscripted programs, such...
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Netflix intends to introduce an ad-supported, lower-priced tier by the end of 2022
by Virginia Anziano | May 10, 2022 | OTT / VOD
According to The New York Times, Netflix executives told the staff that they had set the goal of implementing the plan to launch an ad-supported, lower-priced tier by the end of the current year, more specifically in the last quarter. Just two weeks before, the...