US media conglomerate Comcast has reported its Q1 results. Net income rose 0.6 per cent to $3.86 billion (€3.6bn) compared with $3.83 billion a year earlier. EBITDA declined 0.6 per cent to around $9.4 billion. The company’s revenue grew to $30.06 billion, up 1.2 per cent on the same period last year. Comcast reported that […]
Nielsen, the specialist in audience measurement, data and analytics, has released its sixth global Annual Marketing Report, revealing marketers’ priorities and plans to improve ROI in 2024 and beyond. The report, which surveyed nearly 2,000 global marketers, found that marketers continue to view social media, search, online/mobile video, and online/mobile display as the most effective […]
The International Development Committee of the UK House of Commons has launched a new inquiry on the future funding of the BBC World Service. BBC World Service provides news to radio, TV and digital audiences around the world in 42 languages including English, reaching a global audience of 318 million people. It is chiefly funded […]
Amazon, Rogers Communications, and the National Hockey League (NHL) have announced a two-year agreement in Canada to bring hockey fans Monday night NHL hockey exclusively on Prime Video. Prime Monday Night Hockey will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 NHL seasons. The deal is the NHL’s […]
Virgin Media O2 reports it has has removed 65 tonnes of single-use plastic from its operations and products since 2021 – the equivalent weight of five double decker buses. The company says it is striving to cut waste and single-use plastic from packaging and equipment sent to customers and its engineers to build and maintain […]
Film exhibition, distribution, production, and on-demand streaming company Curzon and streaming service, production company, and film distributor MUBI have become the newest hybrid members of trade bodies the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) & DEGI: The Digital Entertainment Group International. They join the dynamic community of BASE and DEGI, uniting with more than eighty-five […]
Netflix has ordered a movie adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club, a novel written by UK TV personality Richard Osman. The story follows a group of friends in a retirement home who gather to solve murders for fun, but find themselves caught in a real case. Helen Mirren will play ex-spy Elizabeth, Ben Kingsley will […]
Findings from marketing data and analytics company Kantar’s latest Entertainment on Demand (EoD) data and analysis on the UK’s streaming market suggest that Prime Video’s introduction of ads was met with significant resistance, leading to a notable subscriber exodus and dissatisfaction – although Prime Video has been quick to refute the data. Meanwhile, AppleTV+ and […]
The latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report shows that the UK’s ad market recorded a 6.1 per cent increase in investment to a total of £36.6 billion in 2023; the 13th annual expansion recorded in the last 14 years. The data also shows that online formats now account for over three-quarters of all UK ad spend […]
DIGI, the Romanian telco, has launched the full SkyShowtime service, including premium linear channels SkyShowtime 1 and 2, to its digitalTV customers. This is SkyShowtime’s first B2B partnership in Central and Eastern Europe. As part of a launch promotion, DIGI will make SkyShowtime available to all current digital TV subscribers in Romania at no additional […]