Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) has busted a pay-TV piracy ring and cited some 1,800 people for pay-TV subscription fraud. They were all sold pirated IPTV subscriptions to pay-TV platforms, including Mediaset Premium, Sky, DAZN and Disney Channel, by a 70-year old man living in Varese. The man, who is under investigation on suspicion […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced its intention to launch a market study into music streaming. Following discussion by the CMA Board, CMA will now carry out work to consider and develop the final scope of the market study, before formally launching it as soon as possible. The CMA has written to […]
The total pay-TV service revenue in Taiwan is expected to decline at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.5 per cent from $1.18 billion in 2020 to $1.15 billion in 2025 due to the accelerated cord cutting trend in the country and falling pay-TV average revenue per user (ARPU), according to GlobalData, a data […]
The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) has announced another member lawsuit, this one filed in a federal court in New York against South Asian pirate video services branded as Desi TV and Live TV. Consistent with similar lawsuits coordinated by IBCAP, this case also includes claims against a seller of the illegal services – […]
ITV’s Good Morning Britain has announced its first YouTube original series, Off The Table – a mini series which takes the heart of breakfast show to 18-34 year olds Produced by ITV Studios Daytime, part of ITV Studios, Off The Table is exclusively available on GMB’s YouTube channel. The series will feature four hot topic […]
Findings from Ampere Analysis reveal a shift in the Netflix core audience, with the firm’s consumer data for Q3 2021 illustrating the rapid demographic changes in media consumption as the world emerges from lockdown. Netflix is beginning to lose its youth-skewing customer base as people of all ages are seeking on-demand entertainment. In some mature […]
OTT software solutions provider Vewd and TV manufacturer Vestel have introduced the Vewd Operator TV, a fully-featured Smart TV with a built-in, content-enriched pay-TV experience which they say will allow operators to win the retail Smart TV landscape. Rather than up-selling pay-TV services through a separate set-top box, or competing alongside other apps inside hard-to-discover […]
Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, says it is the first measurement provider to deliver deduplicated audience measurement across YouTube’s largest platforms (PC, Mobile, and now Connected TV) and including co-viewers of Connected TV screens. The milestone delivers on the expansion of Comscore’s partnership with Google announced in August and […]
Samsung Ads Europe reveals in its latest report on the Samsung Smart TV landscape, Behind The Screens, that streaming habits, accelerated by the pandemic, have become routine as consumers adjust to post-lockdown life. Samsung Ads Europe, the media and advertising division of Samsung Electronics, leveraged insights from millions of Samsung Smart TV devices across ‘EU5’ […]
Consumer data from Parks Associates reveals that 39 per cent of OTT viewers access video services based on specific content available. “Content is key to OTT success, and the path for consumers today to get to that content is the crucial search and discovery process,” said Paul Erickson, Senior Analyst, Parks Associates. “OTT players are […]