The time has come for Australian media and entertainment companies to make ‘frenemies’ by collaborating and partnering with rivals to achieve growth, with the strong headwinds facing traditional media players set to continue through to 2021, according to a PwC report. PwC’s 16th annual Australian Entertainment & Media Outlook shows that total consumer and advertising […]
A study of TV viewing habits in 13 countries by Ampere Analysis reveals that people aged 55-64 are yet to embrace SVoD services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, preferring linear TV channels and their catch-up services. In the US, only two in 10 people aged 55-64 in the viewed Netflix in the past month, […]
Peter Kay’s Car Share and returning dramas Doctor Who and Line Of Duty proved popular with BBC iPlayer viewers in April, with the three series making up the entirety of the top ten most-requested episodes. Data shows requests were up by 23 per cent on this time last year, reaching 274 million in April. Four-part […]
As first revealed in September 2016, viewers of the BBC’s iPlayer service will soon have to register for an account and enter a password before viewing. Warnings announcing the change have now started to appear on the iPlayer – and a login will become compulsory ‘within weeks’. The BBC has denied the move is part […]
Anne Bulford, Deputy Director-General of the BBC, has reiterated Director-General Tony Hall’s assertion that the BBC needs to reinvent itself for the online, content everywhere era, with a reinvention of catch-up service iPlayer part of such changes. Delivering a Keynote Speech at the DTG Summit in London, Bulford suggested that delegates understand the forces that […]
France Télévisions’ VoD and replay platform Pluzz has been replaced by france.tv, a service that merges all of the PSB online content, whether it is live, VoD, replay, or paid content. Replay content is now available 15 minutes after the first TV run, (reduced from four hours on the old service). The new platform will […]
Freeview Australia will launch a significant upgrade to its hybrid digital television service Freeview Plus platform in June 2017, offering a more simplified user experience and sophisticated look and feel for the catch-up service. The new platform will join the Freeview FV mobile app in Freeview’s suite of products that are designed to make watching […]
UK commercial public service broadcaster Channel 4 has unveiled an interactive VoD format that enables advertisers to incorporate the individual names of viewers of its All 4 catch-up service into the audio of their adverts for the first time. Using first-party data from Channel 4’s 15 million strong registered viewer database, launch partners Foster’s, 20th […]
Video is everywhere, and TV-quality content is available on virtually any connected device with a colour screen. Not surprisingly, therefore, we have witnessed an evolution in the way people view video. One of the key changes has been the ability to access and view video anywhere there is an Internet connection, including, of course, at […]
Multi-channel broadcaster UKTV has reported a record year for revenue, profit and viewership, with results for the year ending December 31st 2016 showing EBITDA growth of 11.3 per cent to £91.3 million (€108.9m), and revenue growth of 8 per cent to £344.8 million. “UKTV is delivering well against its strategy, with record profit, revenue, and […]