covid vaccine certification scheme was set to go live. Mike Rhodes, CEO and founder of ConsultMyApp, explained to the Record about why the launch of the application on the Apple App Story and the Google Play Store went so badly wrong.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLatino-owned TV and media company Fuse Media is rolling onto the streaming battlefield with the official launch of Fuse Plus, priced at $2 per month as a standalone service and available at no extra cost to customers of participating pay-TV operators.Fuse Plus officially launches Sept. 13, after debuting in beta in June.
The service is targeted at a multicultural and millennial audience. The company says it will launch with more than 500 hours of original
.covid vaccine certification scheme was set to go live. Mike Rhodes, CEO and founder of ConsultMyApp, explained to the Record about why the launch of the application on the Apple App Story and the Google Play Store went so badly wrong.
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Amazon have launched their free IMDb TV streaming service in the UK.The service, which is related to the film/TV industry database IMDb, launched three years ago in the US as a free service supported by advertising.The new UK version is currently available via Amazon Prime Video – though a subscription to Amazon Prime is not required to access the service – and it will soon be available as a standalone app via Fire TV.Alongside a host of the service’s own productions, the likes of Pulp Fiction,
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn the biggest news to come out of Iberseries Platino Industria, L.A., Miami and Madrid-based Secuoya Studios and Telemundo Streaming Studios are joining forces to co-develop, co-produce and co-finance multiple fiction projects through to 2023.Sequoya Group’s content production arm, Sequoya Studios, leapt to prominence in April 2020 when appointing James Costos, a former HBO executive and U.S.
K.J. Yossman Amazon has launched ad-based streaming service IMDb TV in the U.K.
CNN has tapped marketing professor Scott Galloway to host a show for its upcoming subscription streaming service, CNN+, set to debut in the first quarter of 2022.
Whenever Frances McDormand brought up the notion of her husband and frequent collaborator Joel Coendirecting her in her dream role of Lady Macbeth, he demurred – bluntly. “He said absolutely not,” she recalled; “I had no interested in theater,” he explained, and that was that.
Nancy Han and Jennifer Suozzo are among the new executives joining CNN+, the network’s new subscription streaming service set to launch in the first quarter of next year.
TikTok reportedly have made plans to launch a new music streaming service in China.ByteDance, who own the popular video app, are set to launch the new service, which currently goes by the name Feilo, later this year.According to Chinese outlet 36Kr, work on the app began in 2019, and is the brainchild of Alex Zhu, ByteDance’s Vice President of Product and Strategy.The reported development of Felio comes just one year after ByteDance’s launch of another music streaming platform in India called
CBS News is changing the name of its CBSN streaming service to simply “CBS News.”
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBSN represented the first effort by one of the traditional broadcast networks to get into the news streaming game, and its name was meant to evoke digital concepts. But that was so 2014.CBS News intends to phase out the CBSN moniker later this year and give its streaming effort the same identity its other products have: CBS News.
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is rolling out its streaming service Viaplay into five new markets through 2023.
Liza Foreman Spanish producer Piluca Baquero (“Lo que sé de Lola”) is teaming with former BTF Media executive Miguel Bueno to launch Ramen Story & Content Studio, a new – and ambitious – TV-film production venture.Also on board areMiguel Arnas, José Antonio Bosch and Jesus Gómez, Baquero will serve as an executive producer on titles, Bueno, who worked making commercials for much of his career, is director of content at Ramen.Ramen is focusing on two projects to begin with but “we are not
Frogwares has announced the release date for Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, which also confirms an affordable price point.The prequel to the developer’s detective series that puts players in the shoes of Baker Street’s most famous sleuth will be releasing on November 16 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLionsgate Play, the streaming service operated by Lionsgate-owned Starz, has launched in Malaysia, a fast-growing middle-income market in Southeast Asia.The service is being launched at a price point of RM19.90 per month ($4.77).
Channel 4 is “needed” in order for it to “compete with the streaming giants”, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden is expected to say in a new speech.Set to speak today (September 15) at the Royal Television Society Convention, Dowden is due to discuss Channel 4’s current “stable position” while outlining why further investment is key to its growth.“Without [more money], Channel 4 won’t have the money to invest in technology and programming, and it won’t be able to compete with the streaming giants,”
The Met Gala 2021 was full to the rafters with sequin bedazzled A-listers, from Kendall Jenner in a sheer, crystal encrusted bodysuit, through to Emily Blunt looking like a heavenly angel. With so much top notch celebrity talent, showcasing such OTT fashion looks, it's a wonder that anyone else could possibly attract attention.
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