Philo

Variety | May 31, 2018

It’s a trend: Philo is the latest internet pay-TV service to plug linear channels from digital-media companies into its low-cost “skinny” bundles.Philo, whose backers include four big cable programmers, is adding three channels to its base packages — Cheddar Big News, Meredith’s PeopleTV, and Tastemade — available to all new and existing subscribers for no additional cost.Tastemade, which features food, home, and travel lifestyle original programming, will go ...

Fierce Cable | July 27, 2018

The decline of traditional linear TV is most often traced back to OTT giants like Amazon, Netflix and YouTube. But streaming services and cable companies can still be seen buddying up.Case in point: Digital cable news channel Cheddar today signed a distribution deal with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), allowing the group’s more than 750 cable and broadband companies, which collectively serve over 8 million subscribers, to offer Cheddar as a linear channel. NCTC subscriber...

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 ...