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Report: Streaming rebounded in 2025

Digital i has released its Streaming in Flux: 2025 in Review report exploring key audience and content trends from Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video. It tracks ongoing declines in new original content launches, recovery in streaming viewing hours after 2024 lows and the rapid adoption of ad-supported plans. The report examines streaming audience data in […]

March 26, 2026

Data: Netflix, YouTube lead video preferences in France

At Series Mania in Lille, France, Maria Rua Aguete, Head of Media & Entertainment at Omdia, presented data showcasing how global platforms are reshaping video consumption across Europe. In conversation with Justine Ryst, Managing Director of YouTube France and Southern Europe, Aguete highlighted that in France, Netflix and YouTube are the top first-choice video services, with […]

March 26, 2026

Report: Local CTV reshaping US ad market

AdImpact, an advertising intelligence and analytics firm, has released its inaugural local CTV ad trends report. The report analysed over 51,1000 local CTV advertisers across 210 US television markets throughout 2025. Market Impressions  Markets outside of the top 50 delivered a 52.5 per cent share of local CTV impressions, while accounting for 33 per cent […]

March 26, 2026

wedotv launches FAST Channels on Samsung TV Plus in MENA

wedotv is expanding its reach in the Middle East with the launch of three of its FAST channels – customised for the region – on Samsung TV Plus. The first channels to launch on the platform are wedotv Big Stories and wedotv Sports MENA, both of which are available immediately, and wedotv Cars will launch […]

March 26, 2026

Comcast Technology Solutions selected by Altibox

Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) has been selected by Altibox, an operator of TV and broadband services in Scandinavia, to provide the next-gen video platform for Altibox TV. The deployment relies on CTS’ Cloud Video Platform to power the viewing experiences for Altibox’s suite of on-demand TV channels and streaming services for subscribers in Norway and […]

March 26, 2026

New Brittin, new BBC?

The worst kept secret in broadcasting is out; Matt Brittin becomes BBC DG to wrestle with the myriad challenges facing the corporation. News focuses on his background as a senior European Google executive. He’s also a white, male, British, Oxbridge graduate in his late fifties. Don’t hold your breath for radical moves. He’s also a […]

March 25, 2026

Orange eyes Globecast divestment

Orange and investment fund Verdoso have signed an exclusivity agreement with a view to a potential sale of Globecast, the telco’s media services business. Globecast currently supports thousands of customers – TV channels, rights holders and platform operators – in distributing and broadcasting their audiovisual content worldwide. The company relies on a worldwide network of […]

March 25, 2026By Colin Mann

Report: Europe’s audiovisual market valued at €142bn

The European Audiovisual Observatory has released its latest Key Trends 2026 report, offering a data-driven snapshot of how the European audiovisual sector is evolving — from the creative workforce and production trends to changing viewing habits, market dynamics and global competition. The European audiovisual sector generated around €142 billion in revenues in 2024. Consumer spending […]

March 25, 2026

Study: Europeans centre video habits around living room TV

RTL AdAlliance has released the fifth edition of its yearly Living Room Study, covering an even wider audience with new markets China and Hungary. The research of RTL Group’s international sales house finds that the living room dominates viewing habits: a place where 83 per cent of Europeans most often watch video content, far ahead of the […]

March 25, 2026

Music and Memories, Outdoor Channel launch on Freeview

Global Distribution Services has announced the launch of two new services on Freeview, further strengthening its portfolio of FAST channels on the UK TV platform. The new launches include Music and Memories, now available on channel 290, and Outdoor Channel, available on channel 291. Both services are monetised through a waterfall model, enabling multiple demand sources to […]

March 25, 2026