On September 1st, users of BBC’s on-demand service, iPlayer, will no longer be legally allowed to access it without a TV licence, currently paid for by some 26 million households. According to findings from research firm Ampere Analysis, this will deprive them of access to nearly 4,000 hours of on-demand content, around 75 per cent […]
The start of the UK academic year will bring many changes for students, including, for the first time, the need to be covered by a TV Licence to download or watch BBC programmes on demand on iPlayer. A change in the law means as of September 1st, a licence will be needed to download or […]
BBC iPlayer saw an excellent start to the summer with 290 million requests across TV and radio in June, driven by major events in the sporting calendar including Wimbledon and the Euro 2016 football tournament. This was an increase of 6 per cent on May, and higher than June 2015 by 39 million requests. TV […]
They may only be little people, but kids – and particularly young kids – have a huge impact on in-home entertainment decisions. Across Europe and the US, their presence in a household means more non-linear TV, SVoD, apps and streaming sites are viewed, and more ‘baby-sitting electronics’ are owned. In this latest research, produced exclusively […]
UK commercial public service broadcaster Channel 5 is to launch My5, a free-to-air TV channel in early August, broadcasting the best content from the breadth of the Channel 5 family. The My5 channel will replace Channel 5+24, taking content from Channel 5’s VoD service of the same name, as well as broadcasting programming from across […]
Content delivery specialist Limelight Networks has confirmed that UK public service broadcaster Channel 4 has chosen the Limelight Orchestrate Content Delivery platform to deliver its programming to viewers on demand. “Channel 4 is known as an innovative trailblazer at the forefront of delivering our programmes to our viewers across the UK who prefer to watch […]
On-demand and non-linear viewing will account for 25 per cent of all TV viewing in the Netherlands by 2025, according to a report from Dutch bank ABN Amro on the country’s viewing behaviour. This is up from just 7 per cent in 2015. The increase is driven by the growing number of OTT and VoD […]
Catch-up TV service France TV Pluzz, operated by French PSB Group France Télévisions, will no longer be available on connected TV sets after July. The service will remain on a dedicated website as well as on mobile devices, tablets and smartphones. This is part of the group’s strategy to reorganise its digital TV services ahead […]
The BBC claims to have maintained near-universal reach in 2015-16 BBC Trust Chairman Rona Fairhead said launching the BBC Annual Report and Accounts for 2015/16. The BBC
Research from the EBU’s Media Intelligence Service (MIS) shows that SVoD subscribers in Europe grew 56 per cent in just one year between 2014 and 2015, and are expected to reach 50 million homes by 2020. The report – Market Insights: SVoD in Europe – shows