Keyword: Netflix

There’s no shortage of choices for streaming video services—with Apple, Disney, NBCUniversal and WarnerMedia all planning launches in the coming year. But consumers may already feel they have too many subscriptions.

Like an angry Zeus hurling lightning bolts from the top of Mount Olympus, Disney will torch the streaming video market and kill off Netflix by the end of the year, in the scorched-earth view of one fired-up investor/analyst.

NBCUniversal is following Disney and WarnerMedia into the streaming video space—albeit with a different business model—but it doesn’t seem overly concerned by the competition.

Based on 66 OTT providers, led by Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, the firm estimates U.S. OTT access revenue grew 37% to $16.3 billion in 2018 and will grow even further to reach $22 billion for 2019.

Amazon Prime Video and Netflix have dominated the SVOD market, and both have expanded globally—strategies that are paying off for both companies.

Netflix's first-quarter results had many analysts shrugging off concerns of subscriber churn and competition from Disney+ and WarnerMedia.

Netflix added 9.6 million new paid subscribers during the first quarter, well ahead of the 8.9 million it was expecting.

FierceVideo is tracking first-quarter earnings results from streaming media companies, programmers, pay TV operators and broadcasters.

Netflix is scheduled to announce its first-quarter financial results later today, but the company likely has more than 150 million new subscribers.

The Scalable Video Technology for AV1 is seeing more than 50% better bit rate efficiency than AVC with no drop in quality, says Intel.