The UK Government has opened a public consultation on whether it should proceed with the decriminalisation of TV licence evasion by replacing the criminal sanction with an alternative civil enforcement scheme. The Government believes that it is right to look again at decriminalising TV licence evasion in order to ensure a proportionate and fair approach […]
Seinfeld, the celebrated US sitcom, will be available to stream on AVoD platform All 4 from February 7th, as part of a streaming deal with Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Originally airing between 1989 to 1998, Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian whose life in New York City is made even more chaotic by […]
The BBC iPlayer surpassed 4 billion requests to stream programmes for the first time ever in 2019, ending the year with an all-time record high of 4.4 billion requests. The figure is up around 12 per cent on 2018. December was BBC iPlayer’s best month of all time, achieving a record-high 447 million requests in […]
French OTT live and catch-up TV platform Molotov has announced 10 million users, three years after its launch. In 2020, the service intends to add new functionalities for viewers as well as monetising tools for content owners. A SmartPaywall will help channels to offer paid content, whilst the SmartAdServing will help those serving advertising. In […]
Around 7.8 million French viewers now watch catch-up TV on a daily basis, an increase of 13 per cent over the last two years. Catch-up TV is watched for an average one hour and eleven minutes per day according to a study from Médiamétrie. It’s not just repeated content catch-up services. In November 2019, two […]
Multichannel programmer UKTV has revealed that its network grew by 4 per cent in 2019, with its flagship comedy channel, Dave, ranked number one non-PSB channel for 16-34s. Bumper viewing over the festive period contributed to driving Share of Commercial Impacts (SoCI) to 7.76 per cent for 2019, versus 7.48 per cent for 2018. Following […]
Figures from the BBC reveal that across the year, iPlayer viewers requested to stream or download an episode of long-running soap Eastenders a record 234 million times, up 10 per cent on 2018. 2019 was a huge year for the residents of Albert Square, as they went through the siege of the Queen Vic, Walford […]
Channel 5 has announced the launch of two Endemol Shine Group channels on its VoD service, My5, as part of a continued expansion of third party content partnerships on the platform. Two genre based channels, Masters of Food and Reel Truth Crime, are now available on My5, adding 60 hours of specialist food and crime […]
ITV’s Hub generated over 500 million hours of viewer consumption throughout 2019, a 13 per cent increase year on year, with Love Island the on-demand platform’s most popular programme across catch up and simulcast. The new figures follow the Hub last year securing more than 30 million registered users, surpassing a target it had hit […]
A number of Christmas specials and new programmes helped BBC iPlayer to its best festive fortnight ever. The holiday period (December 20th – January 2nd) was BBC iPlayer’s biggest on record, with 203 million requests to stream or download programmes, up well over a third on the same period last year. New Year’s Day was […]