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Ginny & Georgia holds on to Netflix #1

Seasons 1 and 2 of Ginny & Georgia topped Netflix’s English TV List in the week commencing January 9th. With 162.72 million hours viewed, Season 2 is the most viewed title for a second week and, since launch, almost 38 million households have viewed the series (343.19 million hours viewed divided by 9 hours). Created […]

January 18, 2023By Nik Roseveare

The Dry to stream on ITVX

ITV has announced that acclaimed comedy-drama series The Dry will become available on new streaming platform, ITVX, from March 23rd. The Dry features Roisin Gallagher as Shiv Sheridan who returns to Dublin after years of partying in London, sober and full of good intentions – but being back with her family makes staying on ‘the […]

January 18, 2023

Salto on the brink

French streaming platform Salto could shut its service by the end of this week according to reports in the French media. Salto went live in October 2020 co-owned by French broadcasters, TF1, France Télévisions and M6, but has failed to attract a substantial subscriber base; it currently stands at around 800,000 – far behind the […]

January 17, 2023

Analyst: “Disney problems self-inflicted”

Michael Nathanson, senior analyst at MoffettNathanson (MN), is on record as welcoming the return to Disney of Bob Iger. MN promptly upgraded its advice to clients on Disney last November (to ‘Outperform’) following Iger’s re-appointment. But MN’s latest study lists in some detail the tasks ahead for Iger. “Iger’s return will force Disney to have […]

January 17, 2023

JW Player acquires InPlayer

SaaS video platform JW Player is acquiring subscription management and identity management technology provider InPlayer. The acquisition broadens JW Player’s end-to-end video platform capabilities by helping broadcasters and other video-driven businesses more easily monetise their subscription-based business and by providing rich audience insights. In June of 2021, JW Player announced it raised $100 million from […]

January 17, 2023

Netflix unveils K-content 2023 slate

The global fandom for K-content is continuing to grow, with Netlfix reporting that over 60 per cent of its subscribers watched Korean titles last year. Looking ahead at 2023, Netflix is debuting an array of Korean TV series, films and unscripted shows. The streaming platform has announced a total of 34 upcoming titles, including original […]

January 17, 2023By Nik Roseveare

EBU, WBD secure 2026-32 Olympic rights

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that all media rights in Europe for the four Olympic Games in the 2026-2032 period have been awarded to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). Following the IOC’s launch of a competitive tender, the EBU and WBD presented a joint bid to acquire all […]

January 16, 2023By Colin Mann

discovery+ free for all Sky subs

Streaming service discovery+ is now available at no extra charge to all Sky TV subscribers. Sky Q, Sky Glass and Sky Stream customers can sign up for discovery+ as part of their monthly Sky TV subscription, saving £6.99/€6.99 a month. Sky TV customers who are already have the 12-months discovery+ Entertainment pass will now be […]

January 16, 2023By Nik Roseveare

Les VODays campaign from DEGI, SEVN

Trade bodies the Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI), and the Syndicat de l’Edition Vidéo Numérique (SEVN) have confirmed the return of ‘Les VODays’, a category-wide week-long campaign to engage with the ever-growing French digital transactional market. French film fans will be offered a selection of new and popular films at promotional prices from Universal Pictures […]

January 16, 2023By Colin Mann

Bank raises Netflix to ‘Buy’

Investment bank Jefferies, in a major review of US Media & entertainment, offers a wide variety of advice to clients including a downgrade (to ‘Hold’) for music streaming service Spotify and Roku (to ‘Underperform’) but with an upgrade (to ‘Buy’) for Netflix. The bank’s report doesn’t shy away from the risks for Netflix and the […]

January 14, 2023