Data from digital piracy data analysis specialist MUSO reveals that Winterfell – the first episode of the eighth season of Game of Thrones, which aired on April 14th – was pirated 54,261,910 times globally within the first 24 hours of its premiere on HBO. With HBO totalling the ‘official’ viewing figures to 17.4 million, MUSO’s […]
Spanish pay-TV has maintained strong growth with 6.8 million pay-TV subscribers at the end of 2018, according to the latest data from CNMC. In the last quarter of 2018, pay-TV services gained 87,000 customers on the previous quarter. Some 91.8 per cent of all pay-TV subscribers are subscribed to a convergent package. In terms of […]
The number of SVoD subscriptions in North America will climb by 110 million from 160 million in 2018 to 270 million in 2024. These figures are gross – many homes take more than one SVoD platform. Digital TV Research forecasts that 77.8 per cent of TV households (94 million) will subscribe to at least one […]
The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has revealed it is working with the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) on the launch of a new OTT service. Luis Rubiales, president of RFEF, said that the two organisations could have a streaming platform ready within a year, to compete with La Liga’s OTT service. Recently, La Liga became the […]
UKTV, the multi-channel broadcaster, has introduced live streaming on its VoD service UKTV Play. Available immediately, viewers will be able to watch Dave, Drama, Yesterday, Really and Home, live on the UKTV Play website. The channel streams will also be available on UKTV Play’s mobile and TV apps in the coming months. Tom Davidson, general […]
A survey of consumers conducted by Hub Entertainment Research and Dynata reveals widespread password sharing among viewers who watched the April 14th Game of Thrones (GoT) premiere from an online platform. Highlights from the study include:
Media giant Vivendi‘s AGM approved a buyback of stock resolution, and there’s potential for a special dividend to investors. In essence the AGM approved a buy-back of 25 per cent of issued shares. The AGM was also issued with Q1 results which were helped by a 2 per cent higher than expected revenue stream from […]
Darren Childs, who announced his intention to step down as CEO of multichannel programmer UKTV in February 2019, is to succeed Mark McCafferty as Chief Executive of Premiership Rugby, the top flight of the Union code in England. McCafferty is to become an advisor to CVC Capital Partners, the private equity firm that has partnered […]
In-flight entertainment and connectivity operator Gogo is raising $900 million in new Senior Notes in order to pay off its 2022-due Senior Notes borrowing. Gogo, in releasing its preliminary Q1 revenue guidance, said that a combination of better-than-expected Commercial Aviation revenues, and lower than expected overall operating and satellite communication costs contributed to its much […]
Social media sharing app TikTok has been removed from Apple and Google app stores in India. The move follows a ruling by the Madras High Court, which ordered its removal over concerns that it was being used to spread adult content. TikTok has more than 120 million users in India, mostly teenagers, but has faced […]