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The rise of free access models across digital platforms

From streaming and gaming to software and social media, free-access models are reshaping digital platforms by turning broad user adoption into advertising, data, and premium revenue.

Free access has evolved from a marketing tactic into a dominant digital business model, reshaping how consumers watch, play, read, and use online services.
Television is no longer about channels - it’s about connecting people, cultures, and content from anywhere in the world.

IPTV Level Up is redefining how global audiences access media

Modern movie theaters are no longer just showing films—they are selling an irreplaceable experience.

How movie theaters are reinventing the cinema experience

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HBO Max to join Cellcom TV+, offering new shows as Israeli streaming competition grows


BIGI streaming platform for kids launches in Israel

BIGI features programs from Israel and around the world, including such shows as Arthur, the kids’ version of Ninja Israel, Galis and many more.

Israeli children in second grade (7 - 8 years old) using computers in a class room during a lesson at the "Janusz Korczak" school  in Jerusalem. May 17, 2011.

Reprisal of Simon Wiesenthal play streams online

In keeping with the times, the play, economically titled “Wiesenthal,” is digitally available anywhere in the world until Oct. 28.

This Week in History: Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal retires

Qwilt signs deal with British Telecom to improve streaming during COVID-19

Qwilt offers a revolutionary solution to streaming online content, as well as an innovative business model which ensures telecommunication companies increase profits, it claims.

The Qwilt Team in 2020

Two new streaming services filled with Israeli and Jewish movies and shows

Both ChaifFlicks and Izzy have excellent arthouse Jewish movies, short films and documentaries. As for television content, it’s not as ample at the moment, though both services are working on it.

A man and woman watching Jewish TV.

New streaming service for fans of Jewish Cinema 'Chai Flicks' launches

After Netflix rejected recent offering of “1945,” Neil Friedman, Heidi Bogin-Oshuin, and Bill Weiner decided to launch Chai Flicks to keep Jewish films accessible to the public.

A still from the movie ‘1945’ showing the two Jewish protagonists at a railway station in rural Hungary

'Hamilton' goes from Broadway to America's living rooms on Disney+

Shot over three days in 2016 at the stage musical featuring the original cast, the film lands on the Disney+ streaming service as America celebrates Independence Day weekend.

A man walks past the shuttered Richard Rodgers Theatre, home of the popular musical "Hamilton" after industry group the Broadway League said Broadway theaters will remain closed through January 3, 2021, in New York, U.S., July 2, 2020

Israeli-American Twitch streamer Byron 'Reckful' Bernstein dies at 31

Bernstein was considered a house-hold name in the online video game community, influencing many online video game streamers.

Attendees walk past a Twitch logo in Los Angeles

Historic 'Ed Sullivan Show' musical performances to stream online

The first batch of releases includes The Supremes, The Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, James Brown and Neil Diamond.

The Supremes from The Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 20, 1966