Roughly a year after launching in the Philippines, Netflix is now the top dog streaming video on demand service in the Philippines. According to a survey done by AIP Corporation survey, the international streaming site has 60% of the local market share. Second place goes to iFlix, while the third goes to Hooq. Both Hooq […]
First off, congratulations to Senator Manny Pacquiao for his dominant win over Vargas and for reclaiming the world title. To those who weren’t able to follow the match, good old Pacman took a 114-113, 118-109, 118-109 unanimous victory over Vargas. Okay, having said that let’s move on to the real topic of this article: illegal […]
PLDT has just successfully signed their partnership with the world’s leading video streaming platform, Roku. Roku has nine million active accounts under their belt, which spans across 10 countries; including the US, United Kingdom, and Australia. Their deal with local telco, PLDT, marks their first foray into the Asian market. The deal means that starting […]
Show off your skills to your friends If you’ve always wanted to show off your Genji skills to your friends but can’t be assed to setup a Twitch account, you’ll be happy to know that Facebook and Blizzard has teamed up to provide deeper integration between your social account and Battle.net. Blizzard is now trying […]
Back in 2012, Netflix nabbed a whale of a partnership with the Walt Disney Company. They agreed that Netflix would get exclusivity for first-run live-action animated films and that this would be effective in 2016 and, well, here we are. You can expect more content from Disney, Marvel, LucasArts, and Pixar if you happen to […]
Even a drone Facebook knows that video is the way forward, and during their F8 conference earlier today the company rolled out plans that will allow almost any device that’s capable of recording video and uploading it to use their Live video streaming service. The company is now opening up their Live API so that […]
It was inevitable, we guess VR is the biggest thing that’s being pushed by companies today, promising an immersive experience on both desktop and mobile. It’s being marketed as the ultimate tool for watching video and playing games, and it was only a matter of time until adult video creators used the new tech for […]
Streaming as low as Php 99 a month Yesterday we officially attended the launch of streaming service site iFlix here in the Philippines. iFlix, if you don’t know, is an ASEAN version of Netflix, allowing users to easily stream movies and TV series from around the world right to their own home. We were fortunate […]
Should Spotify be scared of Apple? Apple changed the way we listened to music with iTunes back when it was first released in 2001. Fast forward to 2015, and Apple’s music platform is being threatened by upstarts like Spotify. Today, the firm from Cupertino fights back with the announcement of Apple Music – their own […]
Shows on-the-go Video-on-Demand streaming services have come a little late to our part of the globe, but things have certainly changed the last couple of months. In the west, Netflix has dominated the landscape and its success has allowed amazing, original TV shows like House of Cards and Daredevil to exist. In the far east, […]
Another player enters the market Hooq may have beaten Netflix to the punch in SEA, but they should still watch out – another player in the highly lucrative video streaming market in SEA has emerged in the form of iFlix, and its CEO is playing for keeps. iFlix, a startup created by Catcha Group’s CEO […]
Hooq is looking to give Netflix some serious competition Hooq, that video streaming service that key Globe executive Peter Bithos left for, has officially launched yesterday. Hooq is a video streaming service that’s akin to Netflix, and was put up by Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Television and Singtel. The company is promising to deliver Hollywood […]