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 […]

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 […]

Mattel has partnered with Samsung to deliver its first three 24/7 Free Ad Supported Streaming (FAST) channels on Samsung TV Plus, the free TV streaming service. The Barbie and Friends, Hot Wheels Action, and Mattel Jr channels are set to go live in the US later this year and will be free to access from […]

Bell Media has announced the launch of 10 English and French-language FAST channels, featuring a selection of entertainment, factual, news, and sports programming. All 10 channels are now available on LG Channels in Canada, and are expected to roll out on Samsung TV Plus in the coming weeks. Additional Bell Media FAST channels and platform […]

RTVE, the Spanish public broadcaster, has allocated a €4.6 million budget to reshape and personalise its OTT service RTVE Play. The broadcaster says it will rely on original productions to expand the service, improve its free registration wall and search engine, and deploy a new CDP – software that stores customers data – to analyse […]

Advertisers are seeking out digital ad formats that capitalise on the engagement offered by the array of entertainment online, according to IAB’s Digital Adspend report for 2023, conducted with PwC. Spend on podcast ads grew by 23 per cent year-on-year, while connected TV (CTV) was up 21 per cent and social video continued to perform […]

The Danish streaming market showcases stability during the first quarter of 2024, reports Mediavision. Household penetration of direct-to-consumer services remains at roughly 65 per cent, which equals approximately 1.7 million households. Stacking (number of paid streaming subscriptions per household) in Denmark is stable at just shy of three subscriptions per household. In total, Danish households […]

RTL AdAlliance, the international ad sales house of RTL, has presented the results of the third edition of The New Life of the Living Room research. The study provides an in-depth view on Europeans’ attitude towards video content and for the first time compares the habits of video consumers in 11 European markets with those […]

Following criminal referrals by the Premier League and anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the People’s Court of Hanoi has handed down Vietnam’s first-ever criminal sentence for online copyright infringement against Le Hai Nam, the operator of the illegal IPTV subscription service, BestBuy IPTV. BestBuy IPTV, which has been named in the […]

Prime Video has become the newest hybrid member of trade bodies the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) & DEGI: The Digital Entertainment Group International. They join the thriving community of BASE and DEGI, and the eighty-five-plus organisations united in their pursuit of growth and success for Home Entertainment in the UK and Internationally. “Joining […]