The Australian entertainment subscription market, which includes video, music and game services, grew by 5 per cent to 52.3 million services in the 12 months to June 2024, despite cost-of-living pressures and services’ increasing focus on profitability, according to new research by emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte. The Telsyte Australian Subscription Entertainment Study 2024 found […]

A report from Hub Entertainment Research reveals that US sports fans are open to more sports and games becoming available on streaming platforms. Key findings from the second wave of Hub’s What’s the Score: The Evolution of Sports Media survey include: 1)  Sports fans assume that in general, traditional broadcast or cable networks can deliver […]

The subscription video on demand service revenue in Japan is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8 per cent from $4 billion (€3.6bn) in 2023 to $5.6 billion in 2028, driven by the strong growth in SVoD subscriptions and unique SVoD household penetration, and a steady rise in the average […]

Two in three (66 per cent) TV viewers in the US are using free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) platforms in a typical month, according to Horowitz Research’s annual report, State of Media, Entertainment, and Tech: Viewing Behaviours 2024. Tubi, Pluto TV, Freevee, YouTube and Roku are the top-used FAST networks by consumers surveyed in the […]

Streaming made TV history for a second consecutive month in the US in July 2024 as it notched the most dominant performance by a single viewing category ever in Nielsen’s The Gauge report, accounting for 41.4 per cent of TV viewing. Streaming levels were over 5 per cent higher in July compared to June, leading […]

Sports-first live TV streaming platform FuboTV has been successful in stopping the launch of The Walt Disney Company, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery’s Venu Sports joint venture (JV) after its request for a preliminary injunction was approved by the US District Court, Southern District of New York on August 16th. The company describes the ruling […]

Research from Virgin Media O2 finds majority (85 per cent) of parents consider reliable connectivity crucial for entertaining children during wet weather on rural outtings during the school holidays. With 60 per cent of respondents (over 40 million Brits) heading on countryside getaways this summer, more than 1 in 3 (37 per cent) are looking […]

MAVTV, the media platform for motorsports, powersports and automotive programming, is launching MAVTV GO, its new direct-to-consumer streaming service. Developed in partnership with Endeavor Streaming, a specialist in premium video distribution, MAVTV GO brings motorsports fans worldwide access to original shows, live racing, race recaps, documentaries and a library of VoD content that includes archive […]

Two brothers from Ilford, East London, have been sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison for operating an illegal streaming service that offered subscriptions to premium television content, including Sky. Amir Butt was sentenced to seven years in prison and his brother Ammar Hussain was sentenced to four years after being found guilty […]

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has confirmed the renewal of its partnership with The Walt Disney Company and well as revealing new agreements with NBCUniversal (NBCU) and Amazon under which ABC/ESPN, NBC/Peacock and Prime Video will telecast NBA games beginning with the 2025-26 season and running through the 2035-36 season. The NBA App will be […]