While VOD services have given blockbusters a new lease of life, where can people catch up on all those local cinema gems? MUBI offers a hand-picked library of 30 cult classics to its seven million users on desktops and smart devices. How has it become the world’s largest art house theatre?

The blockbuster movies found on online streaming services invariably follow the same storyline; a white hero saving the day. But Afrostream is a niche streaming service that will feature only African and African-American content, launching in September 2016 for €7 a month.

Nearly 60% of Brits watch online video every day. The internet has broadened our tastes – from Venezuelan novellas to K-Pop videos, the living room has gone global. By crowdsourcing subtitles, streaming site Viki makes TV shows from all over the world accessible to everyone.

With on-demand services thriving and viewer numbers falling, is the golden age of TV over? Canvas8 spoke with Alan Wolk, author ofOver the top: How the internet is slowly (but surely) changing the television industry, about how TV will adapt and whether the traditional ad model will survive.