YouTube and Warner Bros Pictures have teamed to enable YouTube users to watch The Lego Movie for free during Black Friday on November 23rd. The promotion is to create hype for the sequel, The Lego Movie 2 — The Second Part, which launches in February 2019. Users will have 24 hours to watch the 2014 […]
Universal is set to release new episodes of Woody Woodpecker across three dedicated YouTube channels – in each of Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English. These upcoming adventures are the newest Woody Woodpecker episodes 46 years after the last classic cartoons were released, 16 years after the three modern Woody Woodpecker seasons and one year after […]
Freesat, the UK’s subscription-free satellite TV platform, has expanded its on-demand service by adding Eros Now, the South Asian digital OTT distribution service by global Indian film entertainment company Eros International. With over 128 million registered users and 13 million paying subscribers (as of June 2018), Eros Now offers a library of over 11,000 Indian […]
David Wheeldon, Group Director of Policy and Public Affairs for Sky, has suggested that that UK’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) should be working with platforms to make their content available in all ways that viewers want and can discover it, rather than keeping it in proprietary walled garden apps then demanding those apps are prominent […]
Following earlier disagreements over content distribution, French commercial broadcaster TF1 have agreed a fresh, global distribution arrangement that allows the Canal + Group to include all TF1 Group channels in its offerings, as well as associated non-linear services. It reinforces the partnership between the two groups by highlighting a proposal for enriched services on all screens […]
The results of an in-depth study of TV reception throughout Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast positions Eutelsat as the satellite market leader. The study, led by Nielsen, featured face-to-face interviews with 3,000 households in Nigeria, 2,000 in Cameroun and 2,000 in Ivory Coast – representative of the population of the geographical area surveyed. The study […]
South African regulator the Competition Commission has found that public broadcaster the South African Broadcasting Corporation and pay-TV operator MultiChoice have implemented a merger transaction, without notifying the Commission, in contravention of the Competition Act, and should now be investigated as such. On September 28th 2018, the Constitutional Court granted the Commission the right to […]
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) will not oppose the proposed merger between Australian media and entertainment company Nine Entertainment and news, marketplace and entertainment assets owner Fairfax Media. The ACCC examined a number of markets affected by the proposed merger. Australian news, including online news, current affairs reporting and investigative journalism, was the […]
Significant pay-TV growth (631,000 new subscribers in a year) is having a negative impact on FTA DTT in Spain. According to the CNMC, FTA DTT consumption fell to a record low of 76.6 per cent to March 2018 with pay TV making 20.6 per cent. DTT viewership has dropped by over 6 per cent from […]
Spanish viewers traditionally have amongst the highest viewing times per day in the world. Typical daily viewing during the months of October in 2016 and 2017 was about 235 minutes/day when linear and non-linear TV consumption was included. However, by October this year that loyalty had slumped to just 220 minutes (for linear and non-linear […]