Sky is reportedly finalising plans to launch its NOW TV on demand service in Spain in September as a test bed for its expansion into other European countries. The service is currently available in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. Sky plans to offer the pay-TV service with TV series and films, among other […]
UK free-to-air digital satellite platform Freesat has reported strong growth in the twelve months to March 30th 2017, with 904,000 devices sold – an increase of 90 per cent year on year – benefiting from the continuing popularity of smart and UHD televisions. Freesat’s customer base continues to thrive with 58,000 new homes added over […]
In March of this year, Fullscreen partnered with Leflein Associates to field a quantitative national online survey and ethnographic interviews (in the greater NYC area) with Gen Z and millennial individuals. They investigated media preferences and trends, passions and values, influencer fandom, consumer journeys, and brand love –– and perhaps most significantly –– where Gen […]
The BBC has confirmed it will close its digital download service, BBC Store, after just 18 months. The service, which offered people the chance to buy and download digital copies of major BBC series or single episodes once they left iPlayer, failed to compete with streaming services offered by the likes of Netflix and Amazon. […]
The BBC is reaching a record weekly audience of 372 million around the world, a rise of 7 per cent year on year, new audience figures reveal. These figures – the Global Audience Measure (GAM) – show how many individuals the BBC reached weekly with its news and entertainment content in the year 2016/17. The […]
Jason Blasdell is taking rocket company SpaceX to court alleging that management ignored safety test protocols and that test results were falsified. SpaceX strongly deny the allegations and are defending the action which started this week in a Los Angeles court. SpaceX says that the former employee’s role in the company was terminated for being […]
Netflix show The Get Down, a musical drama exploring the birth of hip-hop and directed by Baz Luhrmann, has been axed after just one season. The show had a production cost of $120 million – the largest ever for Netflix – but metrics from Variety suggest that it was only attracting around one-fifth of the audience […]
Kazakhstan’s Information & Communications Minister, Dauren Abeyev says that the state’s public broadcasting channels – terrestrial and satellite – are not competitors to each other. BBC Monitoring has reported that the country has recently modernised the portfolio of channels. “We have modernised state media assets and launched a first Kazakh Yel Arna cinema channel, which […]
The European Council has signed off the proposal for a revised directive on audiovisual media services (AVMS). At the heart is a 30 per cent content quota for European SVoD services. The Council says aim of the proposal is to respond to the unprecedented technological and market changes of digital shift and to boost the […]
According to Jonathan Broughton, Senior Analyst at research firm IHS Markit, and Tim Westcott, Senior Principal Analyst, the launch by Amazon of Amazon Channels, an offering of subscription channels and apps available to Amazon Prime customers, in the UK and Germany, should not be seen as offering an alternative to the Sky packages available in […]