Findings from subscription management and billing platform Recurly suggest that UK consumers have an appetite for subscription services, but are demanding in their criteria for continued loyalty. The company’s report, State of Subscriptions: What Consumers Want, explores consumer subscription spend and trends across key markets. Despite the cost-of-living crisis, the data paints a positive picture […]

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has released the second phase of its research into differences between advertising in premium OTT and mass streaming video environments (UGC / video sharing services). While phase 1, completed in 2022, looked at consumer usage and attitudes towards advertising in both environments, phase 2 gauged consumer attention and recall […]

Gracenote, the content solutions business unit of Nielsen, is working with TV media company A+E Networks EMEA to advance its Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV (FAST) offerings through a new commercial agreement. By leveraging rich Gracenote metadata, IDs and imagery, A+E Networks EMEA ensures the valuable programming delivered by its new Inside Crime, Mystery TV and […]

Video streaming infrastructure provider Bitmovin has unveiled ECO Mode, its new sustainable-led feature for the Bitmovin Player. ECO Mode delivers a selectable ecologically beneficial mode in the Bitmovin Player that optimises video quality  in order to reduce the amount of transmitted bits, thereby reducing the resulting CO2 emissions. Bitmovin notes that video processing and streaming […]

Lister, Rimmer, Cat and Kryten are coming home, as celebrated sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf returns to the BBC on iPlayer. Every episode of the show’s run on the BBC is now available on iPlayer, as well as the revived series including the recent feature-length special The Promised Land, which originally aired on Dave. Red Dwarf […]

BBC Studios has renewed its longstanding partnership with Dubai-based airline Emirates. The new agreement sees an enhanced BBC-branded offering for Emirates passengers, with over 250 hours of new dramas, documentaries and factual entertainment, natural history productions and pre-school programming added to ICE, the airline’s inflight entertainment system. All BBC Studios content can be found in […]

ITV and the BBC will provide live television coverage of the upcoming 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The news, accompanied by a separate announcement from the European Broadcasting Union and FIFA, ends fears that the tournament would not be shown in a number of major European markets, with the game’s […]

The European Commission has informed Google of its preliminary view that the company breached EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology (adtech) industry. The Commission takes issue with Google favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of competing providers of advertising technology services, advertisers and online publishers. The […]

Multiplay telco Ziggo and SkyShowtime have agreed a wide-ranging distribution deal that will bring SkyShowtime to millions of additional households in the Netherlands. The deal represents SkyShowtime’s first Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (MVPD) relationship in the Dutch market, with Ziggo launching the SkyShowtime app on its platform immediately. Ziggo customers can subscribe to SkyShowtime directly […]

Michael Greeson, Founder and Principal Analyst at Aluma Insights, has investigated whether Comcast’s decision to charge its Xfinity users to watch SVoD service Peacock is the right move. “As with Netflix’s recent move to monetise illegitimate users, Comcast’s decision to charge Xfinity customers to access Peacock will likely convert a sizable portion of users to […]