As OTT viewing has ramped up over 2020, it is always appreciated when we get an insight into how platforms are responding to audience demand. This week, Bitmovin hosted a webinar with anime VoD service Crunchyroll, which recently hit the milestone of 3 million paid subscribers. However, as we learned during the webinar, Crunchyroll subscribers are far from your standard SVoD punters. The company’s Senior Director of Product, Tom Hurlbutt, took us through what makes Crunchyroll different in this regard, and how the platform responds to the challenges this creates. While we would call this particular flavor of viewers high-maintenance, Hurlbutt put it slightly milder – “our audience has very high demands in terms of reaching the content.” For one,…