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TiVo report: Consumer video engagement hit peak levels in 2025

TiVo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Xperi, has released its Q4 2025 Video Trends Report, which reinforces that video serves as a historically resilient, high-priority category, even as the entertainment landscape grows increasingly fragmented and competitive. The report finds that even amid economic pressures that could impact discretionary entertainment spending, consumers in the US and […]

June 5, 2026

ITVX sees May streams up 19% YoY

ITVX has reported its most successful May on record, outperforming 2025’s previous high-water mark with four days of the month remaining. Total streams for the month rose by +19 per cent year-on-year – representing an increase of over 45 million streams compared to May 2025. May also marks only the second month this year (following […]

June 5, 2026

BBC Charter review: MPs’ evidence sessions continue

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons is to hold a further evidence session on June 10th as part of its enquiry into the BBC Royal Charter Review. The BBC’s relationship with online platforms and social media and the importance of impartiality will be among topics under discussion. MPs will […]

June 5, 2026By Colin Mann

Sony invests in Midnight Labs

Midnight Labs, a specialist in predictive IP protection for entertainment, gaming and content industries, has announced an investment from the Sony Innovation Fund. The investment will fuel the expansion of Midnight Labs’ agentic Enforcement Engine to protect entertainment IP from mass piracy, deepfakes and AI-generated infringement in the US and Japanese markets. To date, Midnight […]

June 5, 2026

FIFA World Cup video game on Netflix

The FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off on June 11th, and to celebrate the start of the tournament, Netflix will debut its FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition game on the same day (with a limited test version of the game available immediately exclusively in Brazil). FIFA’s previous video game publisher, EA, stopped using the name […]

June 5, 2026By Nik Roseveare

Mediawan eyes further expansion abroad

French movie, TV production and distribution group Mediawan feels its growth could hit a glass-ceiling in France, as its weight on the market and business relationships with PSB France Télévisions was largely questioned during the recent, controversial parliamentary commission on the public radio and TV service. Pierre-Antoine Capton, its founder and CEO, said he anticipates […]

June 5, 2026From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

LaLiga pulls record US audiences on ESPN

LaLiga recorded its best-ever season in the US across ESPN platforms platforms during the 2025-26 campaign, reaching 20.1 million viewers and 3.9 billion minutes watched, up 10 per cent and 11 per cent, respectively, from the previous season. The record-breaking season, which covered all 380 matches, was highlighted by the latest playing of El Clásico […]

June 5, 2026

Amazon launches Prime service in South Africa

Amazon has launched its Prime subscription service in South Africa offering shopping incentives, and including access to video streaming and Cloud gaming. Prime in the country costs R59/month (€3.11) or R399/year with a 30-day free trial for new members. Amazon Prime members get unlimited free same-day delivery on orders placed before midday in three key […]

June 5, 2026By Chris Forrester

WBD signs World Series of Poker broadcast deal

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) and World Series of Poker (WSOP) have announced a three-year partnership which will see the world’s leading poker event – held annually in Las Vegas since 1970 – broadcast across WBD channels and platforms in Europe, Latin America and Asia The deal will see six 45-minute highlights programmes broadcast across the […]

June 5, 2026

Lynk files for Taiwan licence

Lynk Global, a would-be direct-to-cellular (D2C) satellite operator, itself in the process to merging with Omnispace which operates with similar objectives, has informed the FCC that it has started testing its service in Taiwan. Its local partner is Taiwan Mobile (however, Taiwan Mobile was recently – March 2026 – saying it was working with AST […]

June 5, 2026By Chris Forrester

France: World Cup 2026 in UHD on M6 via Fransat

The M6 Group will broadcast FIFA World Cup 2026 tournament matches live and in Ultra High Definition (UHD) via Fransat, Eutelsat’s free-to-air DTH satellite platform for French DTT channels. Thanks to the the Eutelsat 5 West B satellite, viewers across mainland France will be able to watch the event in UHD without reception or bandwidth […]

June 5, 2026
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