Posts from the ‘Industry News’ Category

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    Deadline: Worldwide Consumers Spent $62.4B On Movies In 2012, Up 2.1%

    January 21st, 2013 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Worldwide Consumers Spent $62.4B On Movies In 2012, Up 2.1% By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday January 21, 2013 @ 2:30pm ESTTags: Box Office The number includes spending at theaters and to buy and rent movies (on discs, pay TV, and digitally) in 37 countries. It’s up $1.3B vs 2011 according to the tally out today from the IHS [...]

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    LA Times: Sundance darlings eye alternative distribution platforms

    January 17th, 2013 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Sundance darlings eye alternative distribution platforms Today’s Sundance Film Festival hits needn’t necessarily make a splash on the big screen (although that’s nice). Video on demand, iTunes and other outlets await. By Steven Zeitchik and John Horn, Los Angeles Times January 17, 2013 Not that long ago, premiering a star-driven Sundance Film Festival movie on a video-on-demand [...]

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    Variety: Online VOD revenues grow 60% in Europe

    January 3rd, 2013 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Online VOD revenues grow 60% in Europe Coin for pay TV VOD services rises 20% By ELSA KESLASSY LES ARCS, France — Revenues from movies on video-on-demand platforms online went up 60% to an estimated Euros 310 million ($410 million) across Europe this year, with the U.K., France and Germany repping two-thirds of revenues.Revenues for movies [...]

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    Home Media Mag: Cable Still Dominating VOD

    September 26th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    NPD: Cable Still Dominating VOD 24 Sep, 2012By: Chris Tribbey Internet VOD rental is growing by the day, but cable and satellite still are dominating the paid VOD movie rental market, according to research from The NPD Group. During the first half of the year, 48% of all paid VOD rentals were generated by cable operators, [...]

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    Digital Digest: Subscription VOD Spending Up 430% From A Year Ago

    August 7th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Subscription VOD Spending Up 430% From A Year Ago, DEG Posted by: Sean F, 11:42 EST, Wed August 1, 2012 New data shows huge growth in subscription video-on-demand services like Netflix, offsetting big losses in DVD and rental income New data released by DEG, The Digital Entertainment Group, has shown a huge surge in the take-up [...]

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    Home Media Magazine: Apple TV Gets Hulu Plus

    July 31st, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Apple TV Gets Hulu Plus 31 Jul, 2012By: Erik Gruenwedel Hulu July 31 said its subscription video-on-demand service, Hulu Plus, is now available on Apple TV — the technology company’s revitalized set-top box. In a blog post, Hulu said Plus subscribers can simply log on by clicking on the “Hulu Plus” icon on the Apple TV [...]

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    Home Media: Blu-ray, Digital Keep 2012 First-Half Consumer Spending Positive

    July 30th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Blu-ray, Digital Keep 2012 First-Half Consumer Spending Positive 29 Jul, 2012By: Erik Gruenwedel Strong double-digit growth of Blu-ray Disc sales coupled with digital distribution helped increase home entertainment consumer spending nearly 1.4% during the first six months of 2012, according to new data from DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. Total consumer spending, which includes subscription video-on-demand, [...]

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    Deadline: Consumers Poised To Pay More For Web-Delivered Video

    June 1st, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Consumers Poised To Pay More For Web-Delivered Video Than For Discs: Report By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday June 1, 2012 @ 1:45pm EDTTags: Blu-ray, DVD, home video Spending for DVDs and Blu-ray discs is falling so fast that 2012 likely will be first year when consumers will pay more to buy and rent movies via the Internet, according [...]

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    IndieWire: Here’s the 6 Reasons Why You Don’t Know More About VOD Numbers

    April 4th, 2012 | Gravitas News, Industry News, News | jwilka

    Here’s the 6 Reasons Why You Don’t Know More About VOD Numbers FILMMAKER TOOLKIT APRIL 4, 2012 12:37 PM | BY ANTHONY KAUFMAN | 3 COMMENTS   Video on demand is the future. So why doesn’t anyone want to talk about it?  We all know when there’s a VOD blockbuster, like Roadside Attractions’ “Margin Call” or [...]

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    Variety: Internet VOD challenges pay TV

    February 17th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Internet VOD challenges pay TV Number of iVOD users reached 7 million in 2011 By TODD KUSHIGEMACHI The video-on-demand market for paid rentals is currently ruled by pay TV services, but the Internet-on-demand market is growing in strength, according to the NPD Group. Pay TV VOD services hit $1.3 billion in revenue for 2011, according to [...]

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    Life After Sundance: Distribution and Marketing for the 99 Percent

    January 30th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    IndieWire: Life After Sundance: Distribution and Marketing for the 99 Percent Sundance selected 110 features from 4,042 submissions for its 2012 U.S. and World Dramatic and Documentary Competition lineups. Based on the festival’s history, it’s fair to say that less than 40 of those films will be acquired by established, full-service film distributors. At best, this translates [...]

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    DEG: Blu-ray, Digital Helped Lift 2011

    January 11th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Home Media Magazine: DEG: Blu-ray, Digital Helped Lift 2011 10 Jan, 2012By: Chris Tribbey, Thomas K. Arnold Higher-margin products and strong consumer spending on Blu-ray Disc helped stabilize the home entertainment industry in 2011, according to full-year figures released Jan. 9 by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. While overall spending on packaged media and digital delivery was [...]

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    The Wrap: VOD Rides to the Rescue of Indie Film

    November 29th, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    VOD Rides to the Rescue of Indie Film By Brent Lang The indie film industry has found a life preserver — and it’s not floating in movie theaters. In fact, it’s the very model studios have been unsuccessfully trying to push past theater owners lately: debuting movies on video-on-demand simultaneously — or even in advance of [...]

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    NYT: For Home Entertainment Releases, a Rare Bright Spot

    October 31st, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    For Home Entertainment Releases, a Rare Bright Spot By MICHAEL CIEPLY Published: October 30, 2011 LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s troubled home entertainment business is moving in an unaccustomed direction: Up. Consumer spending on discs and on-demand releases  like “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” was up in the quarter year over year. On Monday, the Digital [...]

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  • Media Post News: Global Online TV, Video Revs Hit $22B In 2016

    Media Post News: Global Online TV, Video Revs Hit $22B In 2016

    October 13th, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Global Online TV, Video Revs Hit $22B In 2016 by Wayne Friedman, Yesterday, 12:00 AM Big business awaits as TV content owners worldwide increasingly move online during the next five years. Global online TV and video revenues will grow five times their current size to reach $21.52 billion in 2016 from $3.48 billion in 2010, [...]

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