Starz

Variety | June 19, 2018

YouTube TV subscribers can now add Starz to their channel line-up, if they’re willing to pay a little more: Starz announced the launch of its family of premium channels on the Google-owned online TV service Tuesday.The channels, including Starz, Starz Encore and Starz Encore Westerns, are available to YouTube TV subscribers for a monthly premium of $9. Altogether, YouTube TV is getting 14 Starz channels as part of the pact.“The addition of STARZ on YouTube TV offers consumers another...

variety | January 28, 2019

Taking a page out of Amazon’s playbook, Roku is launching premium subscriptions on the Roku Channel starting Monday — promising to be another valuable revenue stream for the streaming-video platform company.As part of a launch promo, Roku users who sign up for Showtime, Starz or Epix before March 31, 2019, will be eligible to receive a 30-day free trial of those services on the Roku Channel. HBO is conspicuously absent from the list, although Roku says it’s continuing to talk t...

venturebeat | January 15, 2020

The mobile game industry is expected to generate $100 billion in revenue in 2020, up from $86 billion in 2019, according to App Annie, the mobile data and analytics researcher. App Annie released the numbers as part of its State of Mobile 2020 report. This annual appraisal provides insight into mobile’s expansive impact across industries and the global economy, highlighting publishers and brands that are outperforming their peers. Based on the report, games are now 72% of all spending in t...

rapidtvnews | January 14, 2020

The Year-End 2019 Digital Media Entertainment Report showed that throughout the year US consumers continued viewing and collecting their favourite films across multiple formats. It also showed that electronic sell through and online video-on-demand (VOD) services also benefited from consumers’ growing embrace of digital transactions. As well as all of the year being a strong year for the industry, 2019’s fourth quarter showed notable gains increasing revenues year-on-year 9% to $6.8 ...