North American pay-radio giant SiriusXM saw a 1.9 per cent fall in its Q1 revenues to $2.14 billion (€1.95bn). It ended the quarter with 34.02 million paid subscribers with 347,000 net additions. Specifically, SiriusXM enjoyed revenues of $1.7 billion (the balance of the $2.14 billion coming mostly from its Pandora streaming service at $462 million). […]

Giant cinema screen specialist IMAX posted a record Q1 for global box office, driven by a mix of local language titles, especially in China, as well as Hollywood releases. Overall revenue at IMAX came to $86.9 million (€78.9m), up 45 per cent from the same period a year ago of $60 million. And IMAX swung […]

ProSiebenSat.1 closed its 2022 financial year in line with its outlook. Group revenues were at €4.1 billion, down 7 per cent on the previous year, in what the German broadcasting group called a “severely weakened market environment”. Organically, i.e., adjusted for currency effects and portfolio changes, Group revenues were down 5 per cent year-on-year. The […]

Comcast has reported higher Q1 2023 profits on lower revenue. Cord-cutting continued, with the loss of 614,000 video subscribers – up from 444,000 in Q4 2022. Meanwhile Peacock, its DTC streaming service, continued to rack losses. Peacock paid subscribers increased to 22 million, up from 20 million at the end of 2022, revenue increased 45 […]

Roku, the streaming platform specialist, has reported that Q1 2023 total net revenue was $741 million (€671m), up 1 per cent year over year (YoY). Total active accounts were at 71.6 million, a net increase of 1.6 million from Q4 2022. Globally, Roku users streamed 25.1 billion hours in Q1, representing a record high of […]

Spanish TV group Atresmedia, operator of Antena 3 TV and La Sexta among other TV channels, has reported a €23.4 million profit in the first quarter of the year, up 1.2 per cent. Total revenues amounted to €212.3 million, up 1.4 per cent the same period last year with an EBITDA reaching €36.3 million, up […]

Orange group revenues grew 1.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2023 (+€135 million) compared to Q1 2022 thanks to growth in retail services (+2.8 per cent or €219 million), fueled in particular by repricing in Europe and by the growth driver Africa which saw a sharp 9.1 per cent increase in revenues (+€141 […]

Telia, the Swedish multinational telco, has reported that Q1 2023 revenue increased 5.7 per cent to SEK 23,069 million (€2.02bn) and like for like, revenue increased 3.7 per cent. Service revenue increased 3.8 per cent to SEK 19,444 million and like for like, service revenue increased 1.9 per cent. For the Telco operations, service revenue […]

During Q1 2023 MTG, the mobile gaming group, saw strong continued underlying growth from PlaySimple and Ninja Kiwi, with stabilisation and early signs of recovery from InnoGames, who despite a significant YoY decline saw encouraging improvements in the second half of the quarter. Revenues were down 4 per cent year on year in reported rates. […]

Viaplay, the streaming service owned by Swedish media company Viaplay Group, has reported that paying subscribers in Q1 were up up 60 per cent YoY to 7.64 million, with 325,000 subscribers added QoQ. Viaplay’s Nordic revenues were up 36 per cent YoY  to SEK1,211 million (€106.7m) on an organic basis, while international revenues were up […]