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Showing posts with label PCCW Global. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PCCW Global. Show all posts
Monday, July 2, 2018

PCCW Global quietly shutters its video streaming service, ONTAPtv.com, less than 3 years after it launched with big promises.

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ONTAPtv.com has quietly shuttered its video streaming service with no word or explanation as to why, as it became the latest victim in S...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Naspers' video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service ShowMax turns one and changes logo to include colour; serves up 10 million 'views' the past year.

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ShowMax, Naspers' video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service has turned one and has changed its logo that now also includes colour. ...
Monday, August 15, 2016

PrideTV launches as South Africa's first gay video streaming service; 'to reverse the trend to restrict access by South African and African broadcasters'.

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PrideTV has launched as South Africa's first gay video streaming service. PrideTV.co.za charges R79 per month for gay, lesbian, bis...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Netflix CEO Ted: 'We're competing with Pokemon GO and Star Wars and Jurassic World. We're competing for attention in a really noisy world'.

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Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos has finally admitted what overwhelmed viewers realised a while ago, that there's just too much television -...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Netflix new Binge Scale reveals more about how people are binge-watching on video-on-demand (VOD) streaming services and how content influence their speed.

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Netflix has revealed a new Binge Scale, an analysis of the type of shows that viewers binge-watch extremely quickly and which ones they t...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

JustFlicks launches as a video-on-demand (VOD) service in South Africa at R1 per day, replacing Times Media Group's failed VIDI service.

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JustFlicks has launched as a new subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service in South Africa, taking over the failed VIDI streaming strea...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Kagiso Media's loss-making Indian channel, Glow TV, abruptly shutting down on DStv, StarSat and OpenView HD on 30 June due to bad South African economy.

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In a shocking move, Kagiso Media is abruptly shutting down its loss-making Glow TV channel for Indian viewers with Glow TV that will be...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

MTN and Discovery Digital's MTN VU video-on-demand service struggling; MTN admits the underperforming MTN VU isn't working as envisioned.

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MTN and Discover Digital's video-on-demand service MTN VU is struggling and has been underperforming - the latest South African VOD s...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

PCCW Global's OnTapTV.com video streaming service goes down without explanation; service unavailable today to users who couldn't access the service.

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PCCW Global's OnTapTV.com subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) went down today with no word or explanation from the company as to what ...

JustWatch launches in South Africa as an online search engine to find the available streaming content on various video-on-demand services.

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JustWatch has launched in South Africa as a search engine to help people to find streaming content that's available in South Africa le...
Monday, February 1, 2016

BREAKING. VIDI fails: Times Media Group's streaming service quietly shuts down as the next victim in South Africa's video-on-demand battle.

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VIDI has become South Africa's second commercial video-on-demand (VOD) failure with the Times Media Group that has abruptly shut d...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

ONTAPtv.com adding local South African content and SABC library programming to its video-on-demand service in partnership with MMA and ReelAfrican.

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ONTAPtv.com, the recently launched video-on-demand (VOD) service in South Africa, is adding new local content and some SABC library progra...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Unsuccessful VIDI struggling with poor uptake of the Times Media Group's video-on-demand service; Tiso Blackstar pulling out of VIDI.

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As quickly as it started South Africa's nascent video-on-demand (VOD) operators are coming under pressure largely due to a lack of fa...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

ONTAPtv launches in South Africa as the latest video-on-demand service with 2 500 movies and episodes; will add exclusive local content.

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ONTAPtv entered South Africa's fast-growing internet streaming video-on-demand (VOD) market with the launch of its new service offeri...