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Sony’s subscription video-on-demand platform Crackle is to be made available to customers of Bolivia’s leading mobile operator, Viva buff.ly/2KoA28N via @RapidTVNews

Telefónica’s Brazilian telco Vivo has boosted its streaming service Vivo Play with 21 live linear channels from broadcasters such as Turner, Viacom, Fox and Disney buff.ly/2MuG19v via @RapidTVNews

A couple of surveys released this week paint a mostly rosy future for Netflix, with one analyst predicting the service will grow in the U.S. from 57 million subscribers today to 90 million in 10 years buff.ly/2yWc5kK via @THR

Sony Shutting Down Crackle in Canada - The video hub will shift some of its Canadian inventory to two new local ad-supported VOD services, via a partnership with Sony Pictures Television buff.ly/2tHOTkd via @THR

Roku is leveraging its first-party data to launch Audience Marketplace, a new service that lets third parties target the OTT service’s viewers using a technique called audience extension with Fox, Turner, and Viacom all on board at launch buff.ly/2KiZ7CD via @TheDrum

YouTube picture-in-picture is now available for Android users in the US for free - No YouTube Premium subscription required buff.ly/2lDFNRZ via @verge

Policing Video: How YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Are Cleaning Up Their Streams - eMarketer buff.ly/2KugWus

Internet-based TV services like Sling TV and DirecTV Now have seen an influx of new customers thanks to the World Cup, if new app download numbers from app intelligence specialist Sensor Tower are any indication buff.ly/2tMtIgZ via @Variety

Mobile access is the prime driver for people to subscribe – and maintain a subscription – to OTT TV services in Asia buff.ly/2Kf1s1s via @RapidTVNews

Disney has struck a partnership with Cisco to collaborate on technology for the media company’s new StudioLAB unit buff.ly/2tHPWk9 via @Variety

Instagram now lets you 4-way group video chat as you browse buff.ly/2MrCrg2 via @TechCrunch

Eurosport’s coverage of The Championships at Wimbledon is with all courts available to watch on the Eurosport Player, in addition to selected matches on Eurosport TV buff.ly/2Ksw27g via @broadbandtvnews

21st Century Fox has said that a deal with Comcast would carry more regulatory risk than one with Disney buff.ly/2Ke8GTn via @digitaltveurope

India’s Times Internet buys popular video app MX Player for $140M to get into streaming buff.ly/2tBCxe7 via @TechCrunch

Pan regional satellite operator AsiaSat and VSAT operator KBZ Gateway are joining forces to support over-the-top video services in Myanmar buff.ly/2Ksscux via @RapidTVNews

Telecoms giant Telefónica and broadcaster Mediapro have secured two tranches of rights to air LaLiga football in Spain for three seasons beginning 2019, in a deal totalling €3.42BN buff.ly/2KquGtD via @RapidTVNews

More than 85% of US millennials subscribe to at least one OTT video service buff.ly/2MY3RLT via @RapidTVNews

UK performed strongly in sales of TV content in 2016/17 with overall estimated total revenues of £902 million buff.ly/2lxPQYw via @RapidTVNews