The FIFA World Cup Final on July 19th, which saw Spain crowned world champions after beating Argentina, attracted a peak audience of 15.8 million million across BBC One and BBC iPlayer, giving the BBC 64 per cent share of all TV viewing. An average audience of 13.9 million tuned in to see the tournament finale […]
The Rest Is Football, hosted by Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, will return to Netflix for the 2026/27 Premier League season, following its run during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The series will air on Netflix from August, coinciding with the launch of the Premier League season, bringing Netflix subscribers the trio’s celebrated […]
Spain’s 2026 World Cup final victory over Argentina on July 19th delivered the biggest television audience ever recorded for a World Cup match in Spain, attracting an average of 15.7 million viewers and an 87.1 per cent audience share, according to preliminary figures released by Barlovento Comunicación, based on data from Fiftyfive. The audience figure […]
The UK government lost more than £340 million (€297.4m) in Eutelsat’s OneWeb Company according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. The report states that the investment (of a total of £517 million) was “championed” by Dominic Cummings, at the time an advisor to the Conservative government led by Boris Johnson. The government agreed […]
Serbia’s Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (RATEL) has initiated a public tender for three DTT spectrum licences (MUX1, MUX2, and MUX5) in the 470-694 MHz band for use in Serbia. This tender represents a relaunch of the process originally initiated in May. Each DTT multiplex licence will be valid for ten years […]
Deutsche Telekom has secured the exclusive German media rights for the 2030 men’s football World Cup, which takes place in Spain, Portugal and Morocco. The deal, announced by CEO Rodrigo Diehl, will see every one of the 104 matches from the centenary tournament – which kicks off on June 8th 2030 and runs until the […]
Virgin Media O2 has launched four new streaming channels – Robot Wars (channel 235), The Hotel Inspector (236), Demand Drama (239) and River Monsters (253 – pictured) – at no extra cost. The new channels are available to Virgin TV360 and Stream customers directly via their set-top box effective immediately and join the existing 40 […]
After England’s semi-final defeat on July 15th ended hopes of bringing the World Cup home, the assumption may have been that fans would switch off rather than stay up for the third-place match. But BT network analysis suggests there was still a clear appetite to see how England’s tournament would end. During England v France […]
Avealto, the British company developing high-altitude platform station (HAPS) aircraft to bring broadband connectivity to underserved regions, has opened a $50 million (€43.7m) funding round to finance a new UK manufacturing facility, a full-scale prototype demonstration and its first commercial network deployment, in Southeast Asia, over the next 12 to 18 months. Avealto’s aircraft are […]
Following the FIFA World Cup Final, Captify, a specialist in Search Intelligence, has revealed analysis showing the brands that won – and lost – consumers’ attention during the tournament. Drawing from billions of real-time search signals across the open web, Captify’s data also reveals that football fans are doing far more than following the action […]
Analysis from creative effectiveness platform System1 shows the HFSS advertising restrictions introduced in January 2026 have reduced the short-term sales potential of advertising across affected food categories, while long-term brand-building performance has remained broadly unchanged. Analysing advertising across HFSS-affected sectors, System1 found that Spike Rating, its predictor of short-term sales potential, has declined on average […]
Piper Sandler is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company, focused on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring, public offerings and public finance. It is advising its clients that AST SpaceMobile should be considered an ‘Overweight’ element in their portfolios. Piper Sandler’s research analysts have set $100 as a price target for AST. The […]
Comcast has decided to unpack itself while at the same time trying to bag ITV broadcasting through Sky. In the meantime, Fox has bagged Roku, at which Netflix looked but decided to keep its checkout basket empty. Just as well, since the rumours have already started that the streamer will now bid for the newly […]