MENA SVoD revenues will reach $2.97 billion (€2.69bn) by 2025; or $2.1 billion more than the 2019 total. SVoD revenues will triple between 2019 and 2025. Turkey will total to $908 million by 2025, with Saudi Arabia adding $563 million and Israel $470 million. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said: “We forecast […]
Over half (54 per cent) of French viewers subscribe to at least one pay-TV service. This is a nine per cent increase on 2018, according to data from the Harris barometer on French pay-TV, which says the increase is largely due to the growth of SVoD subscriptions. SVoD is seen a complement to existing pay-TV offerings […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has outlined plans to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable and future-proof broadband available in 227 market towns and villages across the nation, with building to commence within the next 14 months. The portion of this build plan completed by March 2021 is within Openreach’s previously stated target to reach four million homes […]
To mark Pluto TV’s first year in the UK, it has added ‘Pluto TV Made in Britain’, a 24/7 channel filled with UK’s film and TV favourites throughout the years. The AVoD service has also added pop-up channel ‘Pluto TV Brit-pocalypse’, showcasing British mini-series and how these fine ensemble casts deal with the potential annihilation […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA), in a batch of filings to the FCC, has broken down the costs of clearing transmissions as part of its workload for the final reallocations of bandwidth for 5G over the US. It reminds the FCC that clearing spectrum for the 35,000 cable and IPTV operators across the US is a […]
Car brand Peugeot has been announced as the sponsor of the new Sky Comedy channel – which launches today (January 27th) at noon on Sky channel 113, and 122 on Virgin Media. The partnership is part of Peugeot’s wider 2020 campaign which aims to ‘banish the boring’ by engaging with its target audience of affluent […]
RTL, the German FTA commercial broadcaster, has acquired the exclusive rights in the country to the UEFA Europa League and the newly-created Europa Conference League for the new cycle, from the 2021-22 season to 2023-24. RTL will broadcast both club competitions on its RTL and Nitro channels, as well as on its streaming platform TVNow. […]
Social media platform Snapchat has signed a new deal with NBC which will see it create a range of exclusive programming around the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The partnership will encompass four daily original Snapchat Shows, and over 70 in total, produced by NBC – including two highlights shows that will be updated in “near real-time”. […]
PWC reports merger and acquisition activity in the media and telecoms fell in Q4 meaning deal making was down for all of 2019. There were 137 transactions announced in the fourth quarter, down 20 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2018. Those deals were worth $18.3 billion, down 12 per cent. For the year […]
Activision Blizzard and Google have announced a multi-year strategic relationship to power new player experiences. Google Cloud will serve as the preferred provider for Activision Blizzard’s game hosting infrastructure and YouTube as its exclusive streaming partner worldwide, excluding China, for live broadcasts of its popular eSports leagues and events — including Overwatch League, Call of […]