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India: Goldmines Play on Prime Video

Prime Video has India has onboarded Goldmines Play as an add-on subscription. Goldmines Play, the streaming service from Goldmines Telefilms, the Indian content aggregator and television broadcaster, offers Prime Video customers across India a library of curated South Indian films dubbed in Hindi, along with evergreen Hindi classics. Customers in India can now subscribe to […]

February 5, 2026

Samsung TV Plus opens up to Amazon DSP across Europe

Samsung Ads has announced it will provide marketers with direct programmatic access to its Samsung TV Plus ad inventory through Amazon DSP. The integration is already launched in the US and Canada and is now available in Europe. Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s free AVoD service, offers over 3,500 free channels across 30 territories globally, plus […]

February 4, 2026

ITV reports biggest ever streaming month

ITV has reported that January 2026 was officially its biggest ever month for streaming, recording 383 million streams, surpassing the previous record of 375 million set in June 2024 after the Men’s Euro football tournament. The milestone was driven by particularly strong performances from soap, reality and drama, with ITV noting its continued lead as […]

February 4, 2026By Nik Roseveare

Ireland: Disney+ selects Influent Media for ad sales

Influent Media will exclusively represent advertising sales for Disney+ in Ireland, coinciding with the launch of Disney+’s new Standard with Ads subscription tier in the country from March 3rd. The collaboration offers Irish advertisers the opportunity to reach audiences through pre-roll and mid-roll ad slots across Disney+’s content, which includes titles from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, […]

February 3, 2026

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