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Ad-spend on YouTube, Facebook to grow 130% in 5 years

Data from Juniper Research has found that advertising spend on FVoD (Free Video on Demand) content, such as media on YouTube and Facebook, will surge over the next five years, reaching $37 billion (€29.9bn) by 2022. This is up from an estimated $16 billion in 2017. In addition, unique users of such content will reach […]

January 30, 2018

Analyst: Big-3 SVoDs to triple original content spend

The Big-3 SVoD players – Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video – will shift an increasing percentage of their content budgets from licensing third-party films and show to originals, according to new report, Big-3 SVOD and the Original Content Arms Race – Analysis & Forecasts, published by actionable intelligence specialist The Diffusion Group. By 2022, […]

January 30, 2018

RAI licence fee boosts Italian TV sector revenues

The RAI licence fee boosted revenues for the 5 major Italian broadcasters by 6.5 per cent to €9 billion in 2016, according to a study carried out by Mediobanca’s R&D division. Of the total, free-to-air accounts for €5 billion (+9.8 per cent), pay-TV for €3.4 billion (+2.6 per cent) and radio for €0.6 million (+3.2 […]

January 30, 2018From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Research: VoD 8.7% of daily viewing time in France

2017 marked a greater convergence in TV, Internet and video usage in France, according to data from meadia reaserch group Médiamétrie. Still rising, these usages complete and add to each other. In 2017, Internet and catch-up screens represented 8.7 per cent of daily individual viewing time in France. Although OTT and SVoD complete the landscape […]

January 30, 2018

Serbia: SBB investigated over abuse of dominant position

Serbia’s Commission for the Protection of Competition has initiated an inquiry to establish whether leading cable TV operator SBB abused its dominant position. According to local media reports, the Antitrust launched the procedure after SBB announced it will increase the monthly subscription from 1 January 2018. The inquiry will analyse the conditions of competition in […]

January 30, 2018From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Study: US SVoD users cap budgets

A report from Phenix, a provider of global, end-to-end real-time video solutions, found that 42 per cent of US adults would only be willing to spend a maximum of between $1-$20 per month on streaming subscriptions this year, which, at current prices, limits subscriptions to just one or two per person. The study, The Streaming Wars: […]

January 30, 2018

BBC scores Premier League highlights renewal

The BBC says it will remain the free-to-air home for football after announcing it will continue to show English Premier League TV highlights for a further three years. It secured the rights following an open and competitive processwith a bid of £211.5 million (€240.5m). In the 2016-17 season, the BBC’s Premier League football programming was […]

January 30, 2018By Colin Mann

Molotov at 2m users, European portability

French OTT TV platform Molotov is claiming two million active users per month, with 500,000 of them connecting daily, Jean-David Blanc, one of the founders with Pierre Lescure and Jean-Marc Denoual, told a press conference in Paris. Forty per cent of registered users connect at least five times a week. The service, which is targeting […]

January 30, 2018From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Eurosport offers live VR Winter Olympics

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport is offering fans the first ever live Virtual Reality (VR) coverage of the Olympic Winter Games across Europe. The Winter Olympics Eurosport VR app will be the only destination in Europe for fans to fully immerse themselves in the Games using VR, with more than 50 hours of live coverage available […]

January 30, 2018

Management shake-up at Telefónica

Spain’s Telefónica has announced several changes to its management team, including the appointment a new president of its domestic business, Telefónica España, in Emilio Gayo. Gayo, former head of marketing and commercial department, will replace Luis Miguel Gilpérez and will be the righthand man of Jose María Álvarez-Pallete, the president of the whole group. Gayo […]

January 30, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid