The Walt Disney Company has reported Q2 revenues increased to $22.1 billion (€20.5bn) from $21.8 billion in the prior-year quarter. Disney’s Entertainment Direct-to-Consumer business was profitable in Q2. While Disney said it was expecting softer Entertainment DTC results in Q3 to be driven by Disney+ Hotstar, it continues to expect its combined streaming businesses to […]
Findings from Hub Entertainment Research provide the strongest evidence yet that the majority of consumers will opt for lower cost ad-supported video services over higher priced premium ad-free offerings. Hub’s quarterly TV Churn Tracker is an examination into which platforms viewers in the US are adding or dropping and why. Key findings from Q1 2024 […]
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced that its Max streaming service will launch in France, Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium on June 11th. Customers in Belgium will initially receive early access before the full launch on July 1st. Max launches in Iberia, the Nordics, and Central and Eastern Europe were previously confirmed to be on […]
Disney and Comcast are looking for a financial adviser they are both happy with to resolve a dispute over how to value the 33 per cent stake in streaming platform Hulu that the former will acquire from the latter, reports Reuters. The companies struck a deal for Hulu in 2023 but Comcast and Disney are […]
The premium VoD landscape in Southeast Asia (SEA) is witnessing a robust resurgence, as revealed by the latest Q1 2024 analysis conducted by ampd, the digital measurement platform owned and operated by Media Partners Asia (MPA). In Q1 2024, SEA’s premium VoD sector exhibited stability and growth, with a total viewership of 96.3 billion minutes, […]
A study by Juniper Research, the specialist in telecommunications, forecasts that operators will invest $26 billion (€24.16bn) in cloud services in 2024, with expenditure growing to $65 billion in 2028. Telecommunications cloud refers to the implementation of cloud technology, services, and architecture into operator core networks, with this centralisation enabling operators to develop automated network […]
Currently, 65 per cent of households in Sweden have a paid streaming video service. It’s a stable level, with no growth in the number of paying households, reports Mediaivision. One way to increase consumer interest is to offer cheaper subscriptions through hybrid video-on-demand (HVoD), which is partially financed through advertising Since the turn of the […]
Password sharing is a topic that has received a lot of attention in the past year. Also in the Nordics, SVoD services have communicated their intentions to restrict password sharing, reports Mediavision. Simply put, their desire is to get paid for all users that consume content on their platform and, as the market matures, the […]
Eutelsat has confirmed it is looking at various options over its ground station network of teleports. In a statement following press speculation, Eutelsat said: “[We are] analysing options to partner with external infrastructure investors in [our] ground network. At this time this analysis is preliminary in nature, and there can be no certainty that it […]
The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) has agreed a new multi-year partnership with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) that will see major events on the international equestrian circuit screened in 75 markets across Europe and Asia. These include the entire Longines FEI League of Nations season until at least 2027; the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Western […]
Fitch Ratings has given Intelsat SA (and sister company Intelsat Jackson Holdings) a ‘Rating Watch Positive’ (RWP) and ‘Credit Positive’ overview and helped by the incoming buyer SES and its stronger financial and credit profile. The RWP reflects Fitch’s expectations that SES SA’s acquisition of Intelsat, announced on April 30th, will be a credit positive, […]
Last week Germany expressed in no uncertain terms its unhappiness over the EU-backed IRIS² Low Earth Orbiting system which would give Europe’s governments a secure, encrypted satellite fleet and an alternate to Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband system. (IRIS² Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite). The German government strongly opposes IRIS² due to its […]
The Paramount logo is a mountain with a coronet of stars. Its sale still has a mountain to climb and the final outcome – pre-deal or post – is likely to be the current contenders, and others, picking and choosing between those star divisions of the business. When the movie (low budget straight to streaming) […]