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Data: GenAI app ad spend hits $824m in 2025

AppsFlyer has released its annual analysis of mobile app trends, revealing how AI shaped both consumer behaviour and marketing strategy in 2025. GenAI adoption accelerated across the app ecosystem, with installs up 16 per cent and category spend reaching $824 million (€707.9m) across iOS and Android. GenAI apps ranked among the fastest-growing categories of the […]

December 11, 2025

Analysis: AI alone won’t save telcos

A report from Omnisperience, titled Telecoms Customer 2035, dismantles three decades of failed orthodoxy in the telecoms industry. According to the report, hundreds of billions spent on 5G, full fibre, cloud and generative AI have delivered flat revenues, stubbornly high churn, and customers who switch the moment a cheaper deal appears. The real crisis isn’t […]

December 11, 2025By Colin Mann

3 ways AI TTS APIs reduce dubbing costs for global OTT content by 70%

The main barrier to market saturation for global OTT and streaming platforms is localisation. Users want to see content in their native language on the day of its release, and traditional dubbing isn’t fast enough. Traditional dubbing means casting, studio recording, directing, and mixing, a time-consuming and very expensive process that creates a bottleneck in […]

December 10, 2025

Survey: Streaming subs seeking more value for money

More than half of global households (59 per cent) are worried about streaming annual price increases and, crucially, the majority think streaming platform price hikes (58 per cent) are unfair and unreasonable. In such a sensitive environment, service providers should not take any measure of pricing power for granted. This is according to the EY […]

December 8, 2025

Study reveals what sets ‘AI leaders’ apart

NTT Data, a specialist in AI, digital business and IT services, has released the 2026 Global AI Report: A playbook for AI leaders. The playbook is based on the company’s latest research and reveals how ‘AI leaders’ are separating from competitors through strategy and execution. The analysis is based on a survey of 2,567 senior […]

December 8, 2025

Forecast: Streamers to mix up the media experience in 2026

Applause, a provider of crowdtesting and UX research that works with the likes of Netflix and Paramount+ and sports broadcasters, to provide quality assurance for a wide range of platform features, has shared its industry predictions for 2026 through Adrian Garcia, the company’s Senior Solutions Consultant. Garcia’s three key predictions for the next 12 months […]

December 5, 2025

Italy: RTI, Medusa Film sue Perplexity AI

Italy’s Reti Televisive Italiane (RTI) and Medusa Film, both part of the Mediaset Group, have launched legal action against US-based generative AI company Perplexity AI. This lawsuit, filed with the Civil Court of Rome, marks the first legal challenge in Italy specifically targeting copyright infringement related to the unauthorised use of content for training AI […]

December 4, 2025From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Survey: Households concerned over broadband price increases

More than half of households globally (57 per cent) are worried about annual broadband price increases and, crucially, the majority think these increases are unfair, unreasonable (60 per cent) and difficult to understand (48 per cent), according to the latest EY decoding the digital home study. The survey examined the views of 20,500 consumers on […]

December 4, 2025

BT launches digital sovereignty platform

BT has announced the launch of a sovereign platform which will deliver a suite of new digital sovereignty services for the UK private and public sector.   Assuring the control and management of operations, systems and data within a UK infrastructure platform – supported exclusively by UK-based staff where required – is key to providing digital […]

December 4, 2025

Will we take an AI bubble bath?

You don’t have to be as old as me to remember the dotcom crash of March 2000. But, by the same token, there are plenty of senior executives and fund managers around who would have been children at the time. Are their perceptions of the inevitability of AI’s success, their assumption that we are all […]

December 1, 2025