Tag Archives: 2019

Cine.ar Play doubles views and users during 2020

Argentine telecommunications company Arsat reported this last Friday figures regarding the Cine.ar Plays content consumption, a platform with films, series, documentaries and short films made in the country, developed by the entity and the Cinema and Audiovisual Arts National Institute (INCAA), with data based on the January-July 2020 period. During the period, the OTT achieved [...]

Ondamedia’s views grow by 1,000% after releasing titles for free during the Coronavirus pandemic

As the web version of the Chilean newspaper La Tercera officially reported, Chilean Culture Minister, Consuelo Valdes, reported that Chilean content available on the Ondamedia OTT platform increased their views by 1,000%. Since March 19th, with the beginning of the quarantine period, the system of eight monthly tickets to which users had access to watch [...]

Sports and live content were the most accessed content on DirecTV GO in 2019

DirecTVGO released the most watched content in the region during 2019. The ranking includes the most accessed ones in the main categories, also including DirecTV Sports and OnDirecTV. At the regional level, 88% of DirecTV GO consumption belongs to live events, and the remaining 12% to on demand content. 45% of the audience chose to [...]

Globosat channels led pay TV audience in Brazil during 2019

Globosat (Grupo Globo) had for the first time four of its TV channels into the most watched on Brazilian pay TV during 2019 during prime time. The most watched channels were SporTV, Viva, Discovery, Multishow and Megapix. Except from Discovery, the remaining four channels belong to Globosat. The  time range considered for the audience data [...]

Movistar Play is consolidating itself in Telefonica’s Latin American market

In its first half of the year results report, Telefónica reported 1.2 million active users in the OTT Movistar Play in Latin America. This year, the platform was launched in Mexico and Argentina, while it is no longer available in Central America from August due to the sale of assets promoted by Movistar in several [...]

Mediapro expands Pan American Games borders with YouTube

The Spanish company Mediapro announced it came to terms with YouTube to broadcast the Lima 2019 Pan American Games live and for the first time on the video platform, not including Turkey and the American continent. The companies did not give details on the agreements economic terms, which was possible thanks to the Peruvian Olympic [...]

Brazilian pay TV loses almost 170 thousand subscribers in April

Pay TV in Brazil continues adding cancellations. According to the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) of that country, during the last 12 month-period, the cancellations number recorded 899.36 thousand homes. This way, Brazil closed  April with 17.17 million subscribing homes, and 168.94 thousand cancellations related to March. According to figures from April 2019 published by Anatel, [...]

Movistar Peru grows in pay TV and operating profit in Q1 2019

In its first quarter 2019 results report, Telefonica Peru recorded a USD 1.78 million operating profits, which means a USD 6 million growth compared to 2018 same period. Apart from that, the companys sales went up to USD 592 million during the first quarter of the year, 1.9% less than the previous years same period. [...]

Brazilian pay TV loses subscribers and Oi continues to grow

According to Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) monthly report  Oi was the only Pay TV operator in Brazil in presenting growth rates during the last 12 months. In this period, the countrys pay TV market lost 767.97 thousand subscribers, representing a reduction of 4.27%, and totaled 17.23 million active contracts in the third month of [...]

AT&T Latin America decreases revenues and loses subscribers in Q1 2019

As reported by AT&T in its Q1 2019 results report, the company recorded operating revenues valued at USD 1,067 million in Vrio, the companys subsidiary that concentrates DirecTV’s operations in Latin America. The figure represents a 21.2% decrease in revenues compared to the first quarter of 2018, when they went up to USD 1,354 million. [...]