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Netflix on April 18 said that its number of subscribers hit a record high 232.5 million in the first quarter of the year and that its nascent ad-supported tier was faring well.

This summer has been a breakthrough for streaming, with the time viewers spent watching services like Netflix and Hulu outpacing broadcast and cable television networks in July for the first month ever.

Bulgarian service provider Vivacom saw strong growth for its IPTV offering in the year to June. The company's IPTV base rose by 15.6% for the 12 months to June 30, and IPTV now accounts for 47.3% of its total of 456,000 pay TV subscribers.

Disney prepares to launch two streaming platforms, one for sports and the other for entertainment business, the BNT reported.
This presents the vision of Disney's future about what next-generation entertainment will look like - more streaming and more choice for the consumer.

More and more companies are discovering how to tap into the market using webcasting. The growth in traffic has been explosive. Small Biz Trend says the internet video traffic for global user markets will grow to about 80 percent in 2019. That's not surprising, considering the numbers from Facebook. The social media network generates about 8 billion video views a day.

Nova, the satellite pay-TV platform of listed telecoms company Forthnet, announced on Thursday the introduction of a pioneering service that allows its triple-play customers (Nova3play) to have full unlimited access to its library of movies, TV series, etc, for free by connecting their satellite receiver to their Internet router.

The Turkish Journalist Association (TGC) has condemned the cancelation of the airing of a number of TV channels that are critical of the government, including Bugün TV, Samanyolu Haber and Mehtap TV, by Tivibu, an online TV streaming service provided by TTNet.

Fitch Ratings said it has expected that increased focus on bundled services within the Turkish telecoms market could lead to an increase in content costs, especially for live football broadcast rights in a note on Aug. 24.