Following its announcement of exclusive discussions on February 3rd, BT Group has agreed a set of definitive agreements with Warner Bros Discovery to form a 50:50 joint venture company to create a new premium sport offering for the UK & Ireland and to transfer the operating businesses of BT Sport to Warner Bros Discovery By […]

The Walt Disney Company has reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter ended April 2nd 2022. Revenues for the quarter and six months grew 23 per cent and 29 per cent, respectively, despite a $1 billion (€0.96bn) reduction for the amount due to a customer to early terminate licence agreements for film and television content […]

Each year, the Best Bundle study from Hub Entertainment Research takes an inventory of the full range of TV services consumers use—and identifies the services that are gaining and losing market share over time. Key findings from this year’s study: The average number of sources consumers use to access TV content has hit an all-time […]

The inaugural season of the pioneering Extreme E racing series has been captured in a new docu-series, set for release on Prime Video in the UK and Ireland this summer. Race for the Planet is a five-part series giving audiences a comprehensive look at Extreme E’s 2021 season and the climate change story that underpinned […]

For the second week in a row Ozark Season 4 topped the English TV list with 102.12 million hours viewed. The series was the most viewed title for the week commencing May 2nd and was in the Top 10 in 81 countries. Season 1 of Ozark also jumped onto the list at #7 with 13.64 […]

Findings from the annual State of the Nation national TV trends survey from the Digital TV Group (DTG), the centre for UK digital TV, suggest that quality matters for an increasingly discerning consumer when it comes to resolution, audio quality and content. Consumers now expect all SVoDs and BVoDs to be available across all devices […]

Findings from a Parks Associates study, Quantified Consumer: Livestreaming: The Next Hot Video Market, indicate that 43 per cent of US Internet households have livestreamed online content in the past three months, with sporting events by far the most popular type of content. Sixty-one per cent of livestreaming users have recently watched a live sporting […]

Netgem has announced a partnership with Gaumont, launching their first SVoD service entirely dedicated to the French black and white cinematic tradition ‘Gaumont Classique’. With more than 200 titles and nearly 70 hours of additional content, Gaumont Classique rely on of all the features provided by Netgem’s platform: dynamic editorialisation of films and their additional […]

Netflix officially opened its new Italian headquarters in Rome on May 6th, and unveiled its upcoming local-language slate, which will include a new series adaptation of the Italian classic Il Gattopardo (‘The Leopard’). “Today we celebrate our new Italian home, our growing business in Italy, the creative community we are so honored to be part […]

AVoD revenues for TV series and movies will reach $70 billion (€66.4bn) in 2027, up from $33 billion in 2021, according to the Global AVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Thirteen of the 138 countries covered will generate more than $1 billion in 2027, up from only five countries in 2021. “US […]