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Top 10 US streaming services seeing strong subscriber growth

October 26, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Nearly two-thirds (63%) of U.S. broadband households subscribe to at least one streaming service, with the Big 3 – Netflix, Amazon Video and Hulu – most prevalent. But Sling TV, CBS All Access and Showtime Read More

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Accelerating pay-TV subscriber losses point to OTT’s continued adoption

August 30, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Nielsen is using updated census numbers to apply a balm to the sting of subscriber defections for many cable networks like ESPN, but industry analyst firm SNL Kagan has no lotion that will sooth the Read More

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CBS is ‘all in’ with All Access, OTT plans

August 19, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Think CBS is just dabbling with its over-the-top CBS All Access and Showtime plays? Think again. The company is making money, gaining access to an audience it may not have had access to before and Read More

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Starz joins growing SVOD universe with launch of new service

April 5, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Cablenet Starz has become the latest content owner to launch an over-the-top service to a growing universe of SVOD and AVOD services going direct to consumers and, in a neat twist, will become the first Read More

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Sinclair stations go dark in 79 US markets as retrans fight with Dish flares

August 26, 2015 Jim O’Neill

Dish subscribers in 79 markets across the U.S. won’t be watching 129 local Sinclair Broadcasting stations for a while as the latest contentious retransmission battle between an operator and broadcaster has gone public again. Sinclair Read More

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OTT

Showtime goes over the top – ahead of schedule

July 7, 2015 Jim O’Neill

Showtime has joined the OTT fray, launching its over-the-top service a week ahead of schedule on Apple, Roku, Hulu and Sony PlayStation Vue. The CBS-owned cable network’s OTT platform went live this morning, with a Read More

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Cloud TV

The OTT gold rush is officially on: Showtime follows HBO Now to the Cloud

June 3, 2015 Jim O’Neill

If there’s was any doubt the over-the-top gold rush was on, CBS’s announcement today that it would follow HBO into the Cloud with a Showtime offering that doesn’t require a pay-TV subscription should put an Read More

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Dish gets Showtime Anytime… will Sling TV be next?

March 3, 2015 Jim O’Neill

Showtime Anytime – the TV Everywhere offering from the CBS-owned cable net — is now available to authenticated Dish customers who subscribe to the cable channel. Subscribers get unlimited on-demand access to Showtime content as well Read More

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Study: Broadband signup pace tops pay-TV as consumers look for flexibility

December 11, 2014 Jim O’Neill

More than one-quarter of new customers at U.S. operators are subscribing to broadband services only, a new study says, providing a snapshot of an industry undergoing a significant change, and suggesting that consumers are accelerating Read More

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Will Showtime offer a direct-to-consumer streaming option? Count on it

September 5, 2014 Jim O’Neill

Is Showtime pondering a direct-to-consumer online service? The question might better be put as, “What content owner isn’t?” At Thursday’s Nomura Digital Media Conference in New York, CBS COO Joseph Ianniello – either foreshadowing the Read More

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Videomind is edited by Brightcove Principal Analyst Jim O’Neill, a journalist with more than 30 years of experience, including more than 10 years in the online video space as a writer, editor and analyst.

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