Hub’s Conquering Content study has measured subscription likelihood for four upcoming TV streaming services: Disney+ and Apple TV+ (both launching November), HBO Max and NBC’s Peacock (both slated for 2020). Highlights from the study: 1) Consumers are more likely to have heard of Disney+ than the other upcoming services.
David Benioff and DB Weiss, the co-creators of HBO behemoth fantasy series Game of Thrones, have left their roles on the new Star Wars trilogy citing their decision to sign an exclusive deal with Netflix. “There are only so many hours in the day, we could not do justice to both Star Wars and our […]
The average consumer now spends an estimated 30.73 hours per week on digital entertainment, reports MIDiA Research, an analysis, data and research company. This works out to approximately 4.5 hours per day. Allocating eight hours of work and seven hours of sleep, consumers then have about 4.5 hours per day left to do things like […]
UK adspend rose 5.8 per cent year-on-year to reach £6 billion (€6.9bn) in Q2 2019, marking UK advertising’s 24th consecutive quarter of market growth. Adspend over the first six months of 2019 was 5.2 per cent higher than a year earlier, at £12 billion. These figures are contained within the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report. The […]
Viacom Digital Studios International (VDSI), the international arm of Viacom’s digital studio production business, has announced a multi-territory partnership with Facebook to produce a slate of original short-form content for Facebook Watch audiences in the Europe, Americas and Asia. VDSI’s collaboration with Facebook taps into Viacom’s strong global footprint, utilising its regional production hubs to […]
The Spanish video entertainment market is continuing to show impressive growth overall, with consumer spend set to exceed €3 billion in 2019 for the first time, helped by an improving economic environment as well as rapid modernisation of digital infrastructure. Growth is primarily bring driven by subscription uptake across both pay-TV and SVoD services, whilst […]
Despite early stage virtual reality market and augmented reality market valuations softening in a transitional period, total global AR/VR start-up valuations are now at $45 billion (€40.5bn) globally (over $67 billion including non-pure play AR/VR start-ups discussed below). More than $8 billion of this figure has been returned to investors through M&A already, with the […]
Tough competition and low price offers have driven Orange Spain revenues down by 2.5 per cent in the third quarter to €1.31 billion, according to the company. Overall, in the nine first months of the year, Orange Spain saw its revenues fall by 1.2 per cent to €3.93 billion. The company said it maintained its […]
Technology spending during the 2019 holiday season (October-December) is projected to reach $97.1 billion (€87.6bn) in revenue in the US – on par with last year’s actual spending – according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). CTA’s 26th Annual Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns Study says 186 million US adults (74 per cent) plan to purchase a […]
Discovery and Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media, has announced a number of multi-year strategic agreements for the use of Comscore’s audience measurement and consumer insights tools, as well as for a deeper partnership that will innovate the next generation of measurement capabilities. The agreements expand the partnership between the two companies and […]