Viewing content on-the-go via a portable device is not seeing any noticeable increase in the UK. Sam Tuck, Associate Director at market research institute GfK, said the firm fully expected to see an increase in the uptake – but in recent years it’s simply not happened. Speaking at the Brand Licensing Europe event in London, […]
Netflix received a €57,000 tax rebate from the UK government in 2018, despite making an estimated £700 million from UK subscribers. A report in The Guardian states Netflix’s UK financial filing shows the company reported revenues of €48 million last year, and pre-tax profits of €2.3 million, because the hundreds of millions of pounds it […]
Global analyst firm CCS Insight has revealed its predictions for 2020 and beyond. Covering topics from the future of 5G, through the rise of bias testing in AI and the digitising of sports, the CCS Insight Predictions seek to guide and influence the thinking of top and emerging technology companies around the world. The predictions […]
According to a study from research firm Médiamétrie, 17.3 million French viewers have requested at least one SVoD product in the last twelve months, three million more than last year. Netflix tops the most-watched SVoD services, counting four in users five over the last twelve months. Series are the most watched content on the platform […]
Among all the sneaky, add-on fees that plague American consumers these days, none are more common than those lurking in their cable bills, according to the consumers advice body Consumer Reports (CR). As documented in the CR Cable Bill Report 2019, 69 per cent of Americans who
US broadcast station mergers and acquisitions (M&A) volume reached a total of only $215.1 million (€196.5m) in the third quarter of 2019 as tracked by Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. This is the lowest quarterly deal volume since the fourth quarter of 2016. In the radio business, the largest deal […]
Spain’s fifth largest operator Euskaltel, controlled by UK’s Zegona, is seeking a new president following the news that current president Alberto Garcia Erauzkin will not stand for the post in 2020. The company is looking for a president with “no executive functions” to replace Garcia Erauzkin, who joined Euskaltel in 1998 as a Finance Director […]
The AMC UK channel is no longer available to viewers on the Sky platform. BT’s channel had been available to anyone who subscribed to BT Sport, but now it has been completely removed from the Sky EPG. Confirming the news, a BT spokesperson said: “BT TV customers will continue to enjoy great and exclusive content […]
For years, Ethiopian TV viewers have had to navigate through a plethora of multinational content in a variety of foreign languages in order to locate their favourite channels. That changes today with the launch of Ethiosat – the first-ever dedicated Ethiopian TV platform to host Ethiopia’s most popular local channels. This has been made possible […]
A newly-published report from the Device Technologies (EDT) practice at consulting firm Strategy Analytics forecasts that 5G devices, from a sluggish start in 2019 will take off in 2020. The report, Global Smartphone Sales Forecast by Technology for 88 Countries to 2024, shows that within five years, 5G phones will equal nearly half of all […]