Verizon Communications added more monthly mobile phone subscribers than expected as it benefited from including the Disney+ streaming service with some of its plans. The US carrier has cut prices and made its offerings more attractive by bundling services such as Apple Music. The company said it added 790,000 phone customers who pay a monthly […]
Official figures published the Research and Statistics Unit of the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image, reveal the highest spend ever on film and high-end television production in the UK in 2019. This includes high levels of international production investment underlining the UK’s global reputation as the world-leading centre […]
UK adspend rose 5.6 per cent year-on-year to reach £5.97 billion (€7bn) in Q3 2019, according to the latest report from Advertising Association and WARC, with full year spending projected to increase 5.2 per cent to hit £24.8 billion. The report shows the July to September period was 0.8 percentage points ahead of forecast and […]
BBC News has outlined plans to modernise its newsroom to respond to changing audience needs, ensure it is providing a truly universal service, and complete its £80 million (€95m) savings target, suggesting the changes will lead to some 450 job losses. The BBC remains the UK’s most trusted and most consumed news service – but […]
Julian Knight, the Conservative MP for Solihull in the UK Midlands, has been elected Chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which monitors the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and its associated bodies, including the BBC, on behalf of the House of Commons and the […]
Freeview platform operator Digital UK says it will be able to call on a management team with significant added firepower in 2020, a year that it says is likely to determine the future of public service broadcasting in Britain. With viewing behaviour increasingly fragmenting and the rise in global competition only growing more invasive, the […]
Most UK children are now phone owners by the age of seven, with a big increase this year in the number of 5-10-year-olds who own their own mobile, according to the new 2020 CHILDWISE Monitor Report. More kids of all ages are using their phones to access the Internet, increasingly from their own room or […]
OneWeb, together with support from US Senator Tim Kaine, has been in contact with the FCC, according to Space News. They are urging the FCC to make a positive decision on a request made by OneWeb to orbit and extra 1260 satellites over and above the 720 already authorised. OneWeb says it will need the […]
TVision, a specialist in TV performance metrics, and Vevo, the music video provider, have announced a partnership in which TVision’s data helps Vevo understand how viewers engage with their content. Users watch more than 1.1 billion hours of Vevo music videos per month, and engage with 450,000 videos across YouTube, Roku, Apple TV and more. […]
Brian Roberts, CEO at Comcast – and arguably one of the most powerful figures in UK broadcasting – speaking at an advertising industry event in London last week, praised Sky and in a major feature in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper there was much comment about the next step for the entertainment giant. One option, according […]