Following the recent news that short-form, mobile-first video app Quibi has dropped out of the top 40 list of free apps on Apple’s US app store after just a week, Danyaal Rashid, Thematic Analyst at data and analytics company GlobalData, has shared some thoughts on the challenge Covid-19 poses to Quibi. “Quibi appeared to be […]
All 4, the VoD service owned by Channel 4, has achieved its highest number of quarterly views ever across Q1 of this year, driven by titles including Friday Night Dinner, Gogglebox, The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer, Hollyoaks, Celebs Go Dating and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. This record breaking period includes All 4’s […]
Western Europe’s pay TV subscriber total will slip below 100 million by 2025, according to analyst firm Digital TV Research. However, this is no US steep decline as subscriber numbers will drop by only 2.67 million between 2019 and 2025. The number of Western European pay-TV subscribers will fall
Total online video weekly streaming minutes on mobile grew 60 per cent in aggregate across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore between January 20th and April 11th 2020, according to a report published by Media Partners Asia (MPA). With the disruption and subsequent lockdown measures enforced during the Covid-19 pandemic, total online video streaming weekly […]
Parrot Analytics reports that the share of demand for Disney+ is up 7.54 per cent in France since March 11th, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Coronavirus a global pandemic. While Disney pushed back the launch of its SVoD service in France to April 7th, demand for the service registered the largest growth […]
In light of the ongoing UK governmental review of the potential decriminalisation of the BBC licence fee, and ahead of the next Charter review, Ampere Analysis has explored four possible alternative funding models which all have been mooted as possible replacements for the licence fee. Ampere has found that each of these would present unique […]
Covid-19 will lead to a significant decline in telecoms revenue. Revenue for telecoms operators will fall by 3.4 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019, before returning to growth (0.8 per cent) in 2021, according to an impact assessment report published by Analysys Mason. Analysys Mason had previously forecast growth of 0.7 per cent in […]
The time that Americans have spent streaming has gone through the roof since the start of Covid-19, according to new research conducted by OnePoll on behalf of AVoD service Tubi. A study of 2,000 Americans with access to a streaming service found the average person is now streaming eight hours of content per day and […]
According to NATO (National Association of Theatre Owners) – the trade body for movie screen businesses – with movie theatres shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, studios have accelerated home release for some titles that were already in theatrical release when the industry shut down. Without theatres available, the release window was temporarily irrelevant […]
TV Time has released a study examining consumer awareness of and interest in subscribing to Peacock. The VoD service from NBCUniversal preview launched in the US this week, ahead of its full launch on July 15th. The findings are based on 4,185 respondents who are active users of the TV Time app in the US. […]