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Channel 4: Streaming viewing up 14% in 2025

Channel 4 has revealed a snapshot of the nation’s viewing habits for 2025, in a roundup of facts that reveal how audiences spent their time in front of the screen – plus a look back on content highlights from the year. This year to date has seen the broadcaster achieve what it describes as “significant […]

December 22, 2025

More Disney+ content coming to ITVX

In July, The Walt Disney Company and ITV announced an initiative to carry a selection each other’s streaming content, billed as a ‘Taste of ITVX’ and a ‘Taste of Disney+’ respectively. The regularly refreshed selection of programmes include the following titles, available to stream in January, February and March 2026 as part of a ‘Taste […]

December 19, 2025

​ITVX sets new annual streaming record

ITVX has announced that it has already surpassed its total annual streams figure from 2024, with December viewing still to be counted. ITVX hit 3.3 billion streams on November 30th, achieving this figure a full month earlier than 2024. ITV said the accelerated growth “further evidences ITVX’s success as the dominant commercial BVoD service in […]

December 10, 2025

Data: Time-shifted TV viewing grows in Spain 

Consumption of time-shifted TV reached 8 minutes per person per day in November 2025, representing 5 per cent of total television use, according to the latest report from Barlovento Comunicación with data from Kantar. The study, which measures non-linear viewing of television content within the seven days following its original broadcast, as well as same-day […]

December 10, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid

Germany: Joyn sees record audiences

Joyn reached a record 12.4 million viewers in Germany November 2025 (net reach, 3+ age group). This puts the ProSiebenSat.1 streaming service some 1.8 million users ahead of RTL+. In the strongest month in its history to date, Joyn grew by 104 per cent compared to November 2024. Joyn also grew by 44 per cent […]

December 9, 2025

Data: SVoD programming shrinks in Q4; Sports content rises

Gracenote has updated its Data Hub with Q4 2025 data. Key highlights from the new release include a decrease in total SVoD programming compared to the previous quarter, and an uptick in sports content across both SVoD and FAST platforms. Q4 2025 Data Hub Update Highlights SVoD Video distribution across five global SVoD providers (Apple […]

November 25, 2025

wedotv expands distribution on VIDAA globally

wedotv, the free ad-supported streaming network, has expanded its distribution on the VIDAA smart-TV platform for its newly upgraded AVoD app, its FAST channel wedotv: Legacy, and its new auto-sports FAST channel wedotv: AUTA. With new and enhanced features, including an improved user navigation interface and expanded lineup of Live TV channels, wedotv’s AVOD app […]

November 19, 2025

Italy: TV viewership down, streaming on the rise

The latest report from Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom) for H1 2025 reveals that traditional TV viewership is declining, while streaming is on the rise. Compared to 2024, prime time TV viewership has fallen by 2.3 per cent, and all-day viewership by 2.04 per cent. Public broadcaster Rai remains the leader in both prime time (38.9 […]

November 14, 2025

Channel 4 sees 222m streaming views in October

Channel 4 reports that it was once again the fastest growing of the leading commercial streamers in October. Retaining top spot for a second month running, October saw Channel 4 set industry benchmarks while setting records including an all-time high for youth streaming, according to Barb data. Channel 4 set a new streaming high of […]

November 13, 2025

The Celebrity Traitors sets VoD viewing record

The BBC’s debut episode of The Celebrity Traitors is now the biggest unscripted title on Broadcaster VoD ever. Episode 1 is the biggest single episode on TV so far this year with 14.8 million views (28 days) and The Celebrity Traitors has now become the biggest Unscripted title across the entire market in the UK […]

November 10, 2025