A few days after the coming Nextv Series Argentina & South America edition, Dataxis has held yesterday a new virtual panel, which it called ‘How to build an OTT with‘ zero investment ’and new 'revenue streams’. The panel was sponsored by SeaChange and featured industry experts such as Gustavo Marra, Vice President, Business Development at SeaChange, and Mikel Darrigues, Latam SaaS Business Development Director at Harmonic. When expressing his point of view on the main problems to invest in OTTs in Latin America, Marra said that ‘historically, there has been a disastrous amount of components. There are costs to develop an OTT service (infrastructure, video platform, distribution), and there was an unclear way of remuneration. Many of these services did not charge an additional subscription. The sale of ads was not established eit...
Chile moves forward with the ‘Fibra Optica Nacional’ plan
October 29, 2020
FTTx subscribers Chile
Chilean Telecommunications Subsecretary (Subtel) has officially announced this last Wednesday that it had called for a public tender to assign the so-called ‘Macrozona Sur’ of the ‘Fibra Optica Nacional’ project (FON), an initiative announced in May, whose purpose is to deploy 10 thousand FTTH ki...
Qello Concerts, Stingray Karaoke and Stingray Classica join Totalplay’s catalog
October 29, 2020
Totalplay (Mexico) Total direct pay TV subscribers
Stingray Group has announced this week that it has ran an agreement with the Mexican telecommunications company Totalplay (Grupo Salinas) to distribute its SVOD platforms Qello Concerts by Stingray; Stingray Karaoke and Stingray Classica. With the announcement, Totalplay increases its music offer...
Netflix to launch 10 new Latin American original productions between 2020 and 2021
October 29, 2020
Netflix (Argentina) SVOD and streaming service subscribers
Days after presenting its Q3 2020 results report, Netflix announced the next 10 original productions that it will launch in Latin America for the 2020/2021 season. Titles include documentary series, fiction series and films, and entertainment content; and they come from Argentina, Colombia, the U...
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Telefonica forecasts to end 2020 with 16 million FTTH HPs and 268 cities on its FTTH network in Brazil
October 28, 2020
Vivo (Brazil) IPTV revenues
As part of its Q3 2020 quarterly results report presentation, Telefonica Brazil -where it operates under the ‘Vivo’ brand-, recorded a total of 855 thousand Pay TV accesses via IPTV, and 14.6 milli...
Megacable loses Xview subscribers and records 5 million STBs distributed in Q3 2020
October 27, 2020
Megacable Group (Mexico) Direct cable TV subscribers
As part of its Q3 2020 quarterly results report presentation, the Mexican holding company Megacable reported a total of 1,053,604 Xview subscribers at the end of the period. Although the figure sho...
Televisa to add Disney+ to Izzi’s catalog in Mexico
October 26, 2020
Izzi Cable (Mexico) Total direct pay TV revenues
As reported from Televisa, Disney+, Disney’s SVOD OTT, which will be officially launched in Latin America on November 17th, will be offered as an ‘additional service’ for Izzi subscribers, with the...
Luis Arvizu: ‘We are going to turn Blim TV into one of the platforms with the highests video reproduction in Latin America very soon’
October 25, 2020
Blim (Mexico) SVOD and streaming service subscribers
Luis Arvizu, CEO at Blim TV (Televisa), was interviewed by Nextv News Latin America due to the launch of an AVOD version for the OTT platform, scheduled for 2021. The executive gave details about t...
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Teatrix expands throughout Latin America and launches in Mexico next week
Events | October 29th, 2020
Events
October 29th, 2020
Dataxis held a new virtual panel on Wednesday, October 29th, called ‘Teatrix ‘boom’ in Latin America: evolution of OTT services, challenges and opportunities...
AFA officially cancels agreement with Fox Sports and Turner may own all Argentine Football TV broadcasting rights
Free to Air | premium | TV channels / Content | October 28th, 2020
Free to Air | premium | TV channels / Content
October 28th, 2020
As reported by various specialized websites in Argentina, the Argentine Football Association (AFA), entity in charge of organizing and regulating official fo...
Starzplay launches in Argentina and Chile as D2C
OTT / VOD | October 28th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 28th, 2020
Starz (Lionsgate) has announced this Wednesday, October 29th, the launch of the StarzPlay app direct to the consumer in Argentina and Chile, including plans ...
New OTTs with ‘zero investment’ and new ‘revenue streams’ star in Dataxis new virtual panel
Events | October 28th, 2020
Events
October 28th, 2020
Before the coming Nextv Series Argentina & South America edition, scheduled for November 4th and 5th, Dataxis will held this Thursday, October 29th at 1:...
Disney to broadcast Disney+ content on its pay TV channels before launching the platform in Latin America
OTT / VOD | Pay TV | October 28th, 2020
OTT / VOD | Pay TV
October 28th, 2020
A few days before Disney+ is launched in Latin America, The Walt Disney Company announced that, between November 11th and 16th, some content that will be exc...
Roman Guasch: ‘Pay TV has a way to go, and it must find the content in favour of user retention’
Events | October 28th, 2020
Events
October 28th, 2020
This Tuesday, October 27th, Dataxis developed a new virtual panel, entitled 'Content is King; user experience (UX) is the Queen’. The event was sponsored by ...
Dataxis to debate on the evolution, challenges and opportunities of OTT services with Teatrix
Events | OTT / VOD | October 27th, 2020
Events | OTT / VOD
October 27th, 2020
This coming Wednesday, October 28th at 1:00 PM (ART), Dataxis will hold a new virtual panel, entitled ‘Teatrix boom in Latin America’. The panel will feature...
Pablo Monti: ‘Introducing esports on the pay TV market will be successful in the future’
Esports | Events | Pay TV | October 27th, 2020
Esports | Events | Pay TV
October 27th, 2020
Another of the panels that made up the agenda of Sportv Series Latin America, the first virtual event developed by Dataxis last October 6th, was titled ‘How ...
Looke launches new plan in Brazil with children content
OTT / VOD | October 26th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 26th, 2020
Brazilian OTT Looke (Encripta) confirmed it has just launched a new plan focused on children's content, which it called ‘Looke Kids’. Access to its catalog w...
Dataxis to debate on the new pay TV era through a new virtual panel
Events | October 26th, 2020
Events
October 26th, 2020
Going on with the development of virtual panels aimed at debating different topics related to the industry, Dataxis will hold this coming Wednesday, October ...
Quibi to shut down ‘on or around December 1st’
OTT / VOD | October 26th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 26th, 2020
After The Wall Street Journal and other websites reported that the SVOD OTT Quibi will shut down, the company reported that the end of the platform's operati...
Claro adds 19 new cities to its FTTH network in Colombia, where it already records a total of 110
Telecom | October 25th, 2020
Telecom
October 25th, 2020
As officially reported by Claro Colombia (America Móvil), the Colombian subsidiary of América Movil has expanded its FTTH network coverage during the period ...
California Filmes and Sofa Digital launch ‘Adrenalina Pura’ in Latin America through Apple TV
OTT / VOD | October 23rd, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 23rd, 2020
Brazilian Sofa Digital, owner of the streaming content search website Filmelier, in partnership with film distributor California Filmes, launched this month ...
ViacomCBS to bring Nickelodeon’s series to Twitch in Latin America
OTT / VOD | October 23rd, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 23rd, 2020
ViacomCBS Networks Americas (VCNA) announced that it has ran an agreement with Twitch allowing the co-streaming of Nickelodeon’s animated series, ‘Avatar: Th...
Lolly Kids TV continues its Latin American expansion and arrives at the Dominican Republic with Wind Telecom
TV channels / Content | October 22nd, 2020
TV channels / Content
October 22nd, 2020
Mimyuni Media Entertainment announced on Thursday an agreement with the telecommunications company Wind Telecom, thus making its official arrival at the Domi...
Quibi to shut down seven months after its launch
OTT / VOD | October 22nd, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 22nd, 2020
As officially reported by The Wall Street Journal and other specialized websites, Quibi, SVOD OTT focused on short content for mobile devices, officially lau...
Pluto TV launches its first live channel in Latin America
OTT / VOD | October 21st, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 21st, 2020
ViacomCBS announced on Wednesday that Pluto TV, its AVOD OTT launched this year in Latin America, has added its first live channel with the premiere of ‘Tele...
Argentine Government confirms it is interested in broadcasting local football matches on TV Publica
Free to Air | premium | TV channels / Content | October 21st, 2020
Free to Air | premium | TV channels / Content
October 21st, 2020
As recently reported by several Argentine websites, Matias Lammens, Argentine Tourism and Sports Minister, confirmed the country’s Government is interested i...
ViacomCBS launches new sales unit and restructures its streaming business
OTT / VOD | October 21st, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 21st, 2020
ViacomCBS announced this month that it has established a new unit called ‘Viacom International Studios Distribution”, through which it will unify all the com...
Flow joins Localstrike to promote and produce esports content
OTT / VOD | October 20th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 20th, 2020
As officially reported by Telecom Argentina, with the aim of offering a better entertainment experience to its customers, the Flow platform has implemented a...
Turner continues betting on on esports at CDF with the Tour de Chile Esports 2020
Esports | October 20th, 2020
Esports
October 20th, 2020
Chilean Canal de Futbol (CDF - Turner) announced that, starting today, and in a new commitment to content linked to esports, it will broadcast the Tour de Ch...
ViacomCBS confirms Pluto TV’s channels lineup for Brazil
OTT / VOD | October 20th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 20th, 2020
ViacomCBS announced today the Pluto TV catalog, its AVOD OTT already launched in Latin America, in its Brazilian version. As reported by the company, the pla...
Wom launches new FTTH plan in Chile
Telecom | October 20th, 2020
Telecom
October 20th, 2020
As reported by the specialized website Pisapapeles, Chilean mobile operator Wom started to offer a new internet plan via FTTH, with 600 mbps of symmetric spe...
Grupo Octubre officially launches a new news channel in Argentina
Pay TV | October 20th, 2020
Pay TV
October 20th, 2020
As reported by various Argentine websites, Argentine Grupo Octubre launched the IP channel (Informacion Periodistica) on October 17th. The channel is availab...
Sportv Series Latin America debates on sport TV gamification and sport betting opportunities for OTTs
Events | October 18th, 2020
Events
October 18th, 2020
Another of the panels that took place last Tuesday, October 6th during the second Sportv Series Latin America edition, the first virtual event developed by D...
Dataxis to debate on strategies to avoid subscriber spinning and churn in OTT
Events | October 16th, 2020
Events
October 16th, 2020
After having developed the second Sportv Series Latin America edition virtually, Dataxis will resume its virtual panels from this Tuesday, October 20th at 1:...
‘Narcos’ arrives at Colombian FTA TV through Canal 1
Free to Air | October 16th, 2020
Free to Air
October 16th, 2020
Shortly after the Netflix series ‘Narcos’, produced by Gaumont for the platform, was acquired by Pluto TV for it to be broadcasted in the US, Canal 1 reporte...
Mundo moves forward on its FTTH deployment plan in Chile for 2021
Telecom | October 16th, 2020
Telecom
October 16th, 2020
Chilean Subsecretaria de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel) reported earlier this month its latest statistics on connectivity, in which it reported that the percent...
AVOD OTT Vix, with free and in-Spanish content, strengthens itself in Mexico
OTT / VOD | October 16th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 16th, 2020
As reported by several specialized websites, the Comscore firm reported that the social distancing period caused by the Coronavirus pandemic increased the us...
Sports TV channels to officially resume professional football broadcasts in Argentina as of October 30th
TV channels / Content | October 16th, 2020
TV channels / Content
October 16th, 2020
As reported days ago by several specialized websites in Argentina, finally the Argentine Football Association (AFA) has officially announced this last Wednes...
Disney to premiere ‘Soul’ on Disney + in PVOD format
OTT / VOD | October 15th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 15th, 2020
The Walt Disney Company has recently announced that ‘Soul’, a new original film from Pixar Animation Studios, will be released on December 25th on Disney+, i...
Endemol Shine Boomdog to develop content for Enchufe.tv, Touche Film’s YouTube channel
OTT / VOD | October 15th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 15th, 2020
Endemol Shine Boomdog announced a partnership with the digital media production company Touche Films, to develop content together with Enchufe.tv, a sketch c...
FreeTV strengthens itself in the Latin American market through Roku
OTT / VOD | October 15th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 15th, 2020
Olympusat has recently announced that Free TV, its new AVOD OTT recently launched in Latin America, is now strengthening itself in the region through Roku, w...
Grupo Black Panther arrives at Latin America with Jaque Content
TV channels / Content | October 14th, 2020
TV channels / Content
October 14th, 2020
Ignacio de Medina, Executive Producer & Business Development Consultant at Grupo Black Panther, announced the company’s international expansion to Latin ...
Conatel rejects values of Simple TV packages in Venezuela
DTH | October 13th, 2020
DTH
October 13th, 2020
As reported through his official Twitter account by the Venezuelan journalist specialized in telecommunications Armando Espinoza, the country’s Comision Naci...
CNTV joins the streaming market with CNTV Play
OTT / VOD | October 13th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 13th, 2020
Chile's Consejo Nacional de Television (CNTV) is also joining the streaming market with its new OTT, which it called ‘CNTV Play’. Although some specialized w...
Facebook Watch adds TV Azteca’s series and Mexican movies to its catalog
OTT / VOD | TV channels / Content | October 12th, 2020
OTT / VOD | TV channels / Content
October 12th, 2020
TV Azteca Internacional announced this week it has ran an agreement with Facebook Watch, through which it will add various of its productions to the social n...
Argentina Show Live joins the streaming market with live and on demand events
OTT / VOD | October 12th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 12th, 2020
As reported by several specialized websites in Argentina, Argentina Show Live was officially launched days ago. It is a new platform whose content catalog in...
Movistar moves forward with its original productions plan in the region and announces new Chilean series
OTT / VOD | October 9th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 9th, 2020
Movistar Chile has officially announced this last Friday, October 9th, that it is working on the launch of ‘Los Prisioneros’, the company's first original se...
DirecTV to operate in Venezuela as ‘Simple TV’
DTH | October 9th, 2020
DTH
October 9th, 2020
After AT&T confirmed last May its decision to cancel DirecTV’s operations in Venezuela, finally, the DTH, acquired last August by the Scale Capital firm,...
AT&T calls for an auction to sell DirecTV
DTH | October 8th, 2020
DTH
October 8th, 2020
As reported by the US newspaper ‘New York Post’ on its web version this Tuesday, October 6th, AT&T continues with its decision to divest itself from Dire...
Movistar Peru to broadcast all Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup’s South American Qualifiers
TV channels / Content | October 8th, 2020
TV channels / Content
October 8th, 2020
Movistar Peru announced that it will broadcast all the matches of the Qatar 2022 South American Qualifiers, through Movistar TV. Among the matches it will br...
RCN creates new unit focused on international content distribution
TV channels / Content | October 8th, 2020
TV channels / Content
October 8th, 2020
Colombian FTA TV channel RCN Television announced this last Monday, October 5th, it has created a new international content distribution unit, which it calle...
Fanatiz to broadcast Latin American Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in the US and Puerto Rico
OTT / VOD | October 8th, 2020
OTT / VOD
October 8th, 2020
Fanatiz has recently announced it will broadcast this Latin American FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, which are taking place today and next Tuesday, October 13th,...
Argentine sports TV channels would resume Professional Football League’s matches at the end of October
Pay TV | October 7th, 2020
Pay TV
October 7th, 2020
As reported by specialized websites in Argentina, the Argentine Professional Football League would be resumed next October 23rd, although the Government's ap...
Sportv Series Latin America debates strategies to fight against online sports piracy
Events | October 7th, 2020
Events
October 7th, 2020
‘Detect and fight online live sports piracy in Latin America’ was another of the virtual panels that were part of the second edition of Sportv Series Latin...
Sportv Series Latin America debates on changes caused by the pandemic in sports broadcasting
Events | October 7th, 2020
Events
October 7th, 2020
Another of the virtual panels that took place this last Tuesday, October 6th during the second Sportv Series Latin America edition was entitled ‘The changing...
IFT grants new deadline to sell Fox Sports in Mexico until December 4th
Telecom | October 7th, 2020
Telecom
October 7th, 2020
Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) officially reported last Monday that it had granted a new deadline for the sale of Fox Sports México, one ...
