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Analysis: Global home entertainment values surges

Analysis from the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI), in association with several insight providers in UK and international entertainment, reveals the scale of the success of the global screen entertainment industry in 2025. The UK entertainment industry delivered a record-breaking year in 2025 with total market value reaching £34 billion […]

January 29, 2026

Germany: YouTube, VoD dominate kids’ media habits

Precisify, the cross-platform media intelligence specialist, has released its Precisify Insights: Kids Germany report. Following the success of its kids insights reports in the US, UK and Australia, Precisify is now expanding the Insights: Kids series into Germany as part of its broader European growth strategy. “These data findings give us the clearest picture yet […]

January 29, 2026

Netflix opens new Brazil office

Netflix has opened a new, larger office in São Paulo, Brazil as the streamer commemorates its 15th year in the country. Co-CEO Greg Peters attended the ceremony, bringing together names from the creative industry, government authorities, and business partners. At the event, Peters highlighted the strengthening of Netflix’s partnership with Brazil’s audiovisual sector and reaffirmed […]

January 28, 2026

Why don’t lawmakers like Netflix?

Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic have come out against the Netflix takeover of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). What did Netflix ever do to them? Well, in the case of the US, it’s more a question of what Netflix hasn’t done for them. Because it’s never been a network, it’s never had the wherewithal […]

January 27, 2026

Analysis: Streaming services pulling back on Nordic productions

Mediavision’s latest Nordic Content Analysis show that country-specific streaming services generate substantially higher impact per hour of available content than global players. The analysis compares total content supply (measured in runtime hours) with household subscription penetration across streaming services available in the Nordics. “Local streaming services outperform globals in terms of household penetration per hour […]

January 27, 2026

Daredevil Born Again Season 2 on Disney+ this March

Marvel Television has unveiled a new trailer for the second season of Daredevil: Born Again, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s intense street-level drama, which streams exclusively on Disney+ beginning March 25th. Across eight episodes, survival, resistance and redemption collide as the battle for the soul of New York begins. Created by Dario Scardapane, Chris Ord and […]

January 27, 2026

France: Les VODays returns for 2026

DEGI: The Digital Entertainment Group International and the Syndicat de l’Edition Vidéo Numérique (SEVN) have announced the return of Les VODays for 2026, a week-long campaign to drive growth and engagement across the French digital transactional market. From January 26th to February 1st, the campaign will offer French film fans a selection of the latest […]

January 26, 2026

AMC Networks relaunches Sundance Now

AMC Networks has announced the relaunch of Sundance Now – a streaming destination for independent film. Building on AMC Networks’ decades-long legacy of storytelling and inspired by the late Robert Redford’s commitment to supporting independent voices, Sundance Now brings the festival directly into viewers’ homes with films straight from their theatrical runs, alongside a library […]

January 23, 2026

Survey: UK households push back on streaming price hikes

More than half of UK households (59 per cent) are worried about streaming annual price increases according to the latest EY Decoding the Digital Home Study. The survey of 2,000 UK consumers, which reviews attitudes towards technology, media and telecoms (TMT) found that most consumers believe streaming platform price hikes (65 per cent) are unfair […]

January 22, 2026

Italy: SVoD users dip as FAST grows

Despite the increasing popularity of streaming in Italy, the number of unique users for SVoD services decreased by 1.3 per cent in September 2025 compared to the previous year, totalling 15.7 million. Data from the Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AgCom) for the first nine months of 2025 reveals that Netflix remains the leader with 8.3 […]

January 22, 2026From Branislav Pekic in Rome