The new series of acclaimed drama Doctor Foster topped a strong month for BBC iPlayer to kick off the autumn schedule. The returning show was the most popular programme of the month, with the first episode seeing three million requests, and the four episodes shown in September seeing nine million requests in total. All five […]
Freeview New Zealand has announced the launch of a new high-end recorder and a new Freeview On Demand platform combining Live TV and On Demand services on Smart TVs and set top boxes. Expected to be in store in Q1 2018, the premium recorder – produced by local company Dish TV – will be the […]
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery Communications are launching a joint premium entertainment streaming service in Germany, which they say brings an exciting content offering to the market. They say the initiative defines a new way for media companies to bring their content to fans across all screens and new opportunities for advertisers to reach […]
Having abandoned plans to merge their businesses earlier in the year following failure to gain regulatory approval for the deal, New Zealand telco Vodafone and pay-TV operator SKY TV have unveiled Vodafone TV – a world of entertainment that Vodafone says lets Kiwis experience television like never before, by giving them freedom and control over […]
More than 33,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 25 were caught watching live TV or BBC programmes on iPlayer without a TV Licence in the past year, according to new figures released today by TV Licensing – the companies contracted by the BBC to administer the collection of the television licence fee […]
Findings from the Ericsson ConsumerLab study suggest that linear and VoD viewing will be almost equal in just three years, with 50 per cent of all viewing being done on a mobile screen, with half of this done on the smartphone alone. The eighth edition of Ericsson’s annual ConsumerLab TV and Media report details the […]
The number of Italians using OTT services reached 19.1 million in June 2017, up by 2.9 million or 18 per cent on September 2016. This corresponds to 58 per cent of Italian internet users aged 16 years and over, according to a study on the online video content market in Italy by the EY consultancy. […]
Following the announcement on October 1st of a tentative carriage deal that averted a potential blackout of Disney-owned channels in nearly 2.6 million homes in the greater New York area served by the cable MSO Altice USA’s Optimum cable TV service, Altice USA and The Walt Disney Company have announced a comprehensive distribution agreement to […]
Ampere Analysis’ Top Online Video Services Barometer has revealed that YouTube is still by far the most watched online video service, with 68.7 per cent of global internet users having visited the website at least once in the last month. YouTube is the most watched service in all but one of the markets studied. The […]
Catch-up TV totalled 506.9 millions views in July in France, down 7 per cent over one month but up 1.5 per cent over the year to 3.9 billion videos viewed. Some 79.5 per cent of French broadband users watch catch-up, and TV remains the most popular device to watch on. According to the CNC monthly […]