Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to make Top Gear-style show for Amazon July 30, 2015 Former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have found a new home at Amazon, after being ditched by the BBC earlier this year. Read more: Chris Evans picked to replace Jeremy Clarkson as Top Gear presenter The trio will create a Top Gear-style motoring show for Amazon's Prime Video service, with long-time [...]
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May hint at making a Top Gear style show to the US July 20, 2015 Is Jeremy Clarkson about to make the leap across the pond? Reunited with Richard Hammond and James May for live shows in Australia, Clarkson is said to have teased fans last night that the trio has found a “new channel” for a motoring show similar to Top Gear. Clarkson hinted they could be signing with [...]
Supermarket price wars prove a potent aid to popularity July 14, 2015 German discount supermarkets Aldi and Lidl hold on to their positions as the highest performing brands in YouGov BrandIndex’s mid-year Buzz Score Rankings, while we have positive news for the Co-Op group in the most improved brand list. The rankings are based on YouGov’s BrandIndex Buzz scores, which measures whether consumers have heard anything [...]
Why traders love Netflix despite a likely earnings miss – eToro tips & picks July 13, 2015 As US earnings season starts to heat up, there are a whole host of opportunities this week for traders. A notable example is Netflix, the online streaming service, which reports its earnings tomorrow. By all accounts, we are not expecting blockbuster numbers. The company has been aggressively expanding into different regions and the cost of [...]
Younger viewers are turning away from traditional television viewing and watching Netflix and iPlayer instead July 2, 2015 Only half of young people are watching broadcasts through live television. The figures are from media watchdog Ofcom’s latest research into the state of Public Service Broadcasters, released today. It found that viewers aged 16 to 24 years old are increasingly using online, on demand, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, and the [...]
Netflix exit: Carl Icahn is no longer an investor in video streaming service – he reveals on Twitter June 24, 2015 Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is no longer an investor in Netflix after selling the last of his remaining shares in the company today. The outspoken investor had owned around 1.4m shares in the video streaming site through his firm Icahn Enterprises at the end of the last quarter, according to Reuters. At on point he [...]
Netflix share price jumps two per cent after share split approved by board June 23, 2015 Netflix’s shares have risen two per cent in after-hour trading after its board approved a stock split. The split will take the form of a a stock dividend, giving an extra six shares of common stock for each single outstanding common stock share. Netflix said it would begin trading at the post-split price on 15 [...]
Netflix to debut in Italy and Portugal in October June 6, 2015 Netflix is to take to the stage in Italy and Portugal this October, to add to the more than 50 countries where it is already available. In an announcement this Saturday in California Netflix made the big reveal, just days after it announced the service would soon be available in Spain. In March, the company [...]
Streams are the new downloads: Apple music service rumours swirl as Netflix tests ads and Spotify experiments with video June 2, 2015 The battle to dominate the growing online media streaming market, and to make money from it, is about to go up a level. Tech giant Apple is rumoured to be preparing to announce a $10 (£6.50) a month music streaming service at its WWDC conference for software developers on Monday. If the move [...]
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May and Netflix could team up with ‘House of Cars’ May 13, 2015 The former Top Gear presenting team of Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond are reportedly in talks with Netflix to launch a spin-off of the popular show called House of Cars. The trio are currently out of action after Clarkson was sacked from the successful BBC show, prompting May and Hammond to leave too. Clarkson, [...]