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Analyst: Premier League rights to top £10bn

Estimates in a report from research firm Ampere Analysis covering the most likely deal value for English Premier League football rights suggest a sum between £5.5 billion (€4.55bn) and £5.9 billion for domestic three-year ‘live’ television rights (up from £5.13 billion previously). When

January 23, 2018

Brits spending £303m+ monthly on SVoD

Research by price comparison site finder.com indicates that TV fanatics in the UK spend £303.16 million (€346m) a month on TV streaming services including Netflix, Amazon Prime, NOW TV and Hayu. According to a survey of 2,000 UK adults,

January 23, 2018

EPL clubs dominate Football Money League

English Premier League football clubs make up 10 of the top 20 highest revenue generating clubs in world football, according to the 21st edition of the Deloitte Football Money League from the Sports Business Group of Deloitte UK. Published just eight months after the end of the 2016/17 season, the Money League is the most […]

January 23, 2018By Colin Mann

EY: Net tops TV for UK household attention

Over half of UK households (56 per cent) spend more time on the Internet (including streaming) than watching TV, up from 49 per cent in 2016, according to findings from consultancy firm EY’s latest annual digital home survey of 2,500 UK consumers. This is the first time

January 22, 2018

Netflix tops iPlayer in BrandIndex rankings

For the fourth year in a row German supermarkets Aldi and Lidl fill the top spots on YouGov BrandIndex’s list of the top 10 UK brands, with streaming service Netflix third, rising three places from last year’s list, overtaking BBC iPlayer (fourth) in the process. YouGov BrandIndex measures the public’s perception of brands on a […]

January 22, 2018By Colin Mann

US video game industry revenue $36bn in 2017

The US video game industry generated a record $36 billion (€29.4bn) in revenue in 2017, up 18 per cent from 2016, according to data from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and The NPD Group. “The spectacular growth of our industry in 2017

January 19, 2018

Analyst: French say ‘non’ to Netflix

Netflix has yet to conquer the hearts and minds of the French, according to research from media analyst firm Ampere Analysis. Despite a global march to SVoD viewing on services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, France solidly bucks the trend with the lowest uptake of SVoD among countries surveyed. This is despite having one […]

January 18, 2018

Roku insights boost for OTT advertising

Streaming platform and device specialist Roku has unveiled further advancements in OTT advertising measurement by introducing Ad Insights. The new offering allows marketers to measure campaign reach and effectiveness across linear and OTT, and more accurately plan their OTT ad investments. The toolset helps brands analyse the engagement of TV audiences as they rapidly shift […]

January 18, 2018

Deloitte: Young adult TV viewing in decline

According to the seventeenth edition of TMT Predictions 2018 from business advisory firm Deloitte, traditional TV viewing by 18-24 year-olds in the UK will decline by 10 per cent to 15 per cent in 2018 and 2019, but thereafter the rate of decline may lessen. “Many forces that distracted young people away from traditional TV, […]

January 17, 2018

MPAA: ‘Content industry key economy driver’

The American film and television industry continues to be a key driver of the US economy, adding high quality domestic jobs and paying out $49 billion (€40bn) to local businesses across the country, according to the most recent economic figures released by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The US film and television industry […]

January 17, 2018