The value of the UK music, video and games markets increased for the eleventh successive year in 2023, rising 7 per cent to another all-time record of £11.9 billion (€13.8bn), according to preliminary figures released by digital entertainment and retail association ERA. It means the entertainment market has grown by just over 50 per cent […]
Coimisiún na Meán, Ireland’s new body for regulating broadcasters, on-demand services, and online media, and supporting media development, has published details of the designation of ten services as named video-sharing platform services. The designation process for these services was completed during December 2023. The designated services are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • Udemy […]
The first set of figures to be released in 2024 by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and Official Charts Company (OCC) crown Barbie the Queen of 2023 home entertainment, with 700k sales across Disc and Digital EST and VoD. (Official Charts Company (OCC) measures inividual content purchases on disc and digital, to rent, […]
Samsung Electronics has revealed details of the ‘Designed for Samsung Gaming Hub’ programme that will be showcased at CES2024. The objective of the programme is to work with leading gaming accessory companies to drive the next generation of best-in-class partner products for the Samsung Gaming Hub, Samsung’s game streaming platform. In addition, the company announced […]
As streaming video services have raised subscription prices and rolled out lower-cost ad-supported tiers, more consumers are expressing their preference for watching ads to save money, according to the results of Hub Entertainment Research’s TV Advertising: Fact vs Fiction survey, which suggests that the trend of consumers opting for ads is not abating. Most viewers […]
Research firm Parks Associates’ latest update of its Streaming Video Tracker reveals that just 5 per cent of US Internet households have only a pay-TV service, indicating legacy pay-TV companies continue to lose subscribers to streaming video services. However, the average annualised industry churn rate for streaming services is 50 per cent meaning many streaming […]
Advisory firm Media Partners Asia’s Asia Pacific Video & Broadband Industry 2024 report provides key insights to the adoption and monetisation of free-to-air TV, pay-TV, SVoD, premium AVoD and UGC / Social Video advertising in 14 Asia Pacific markets. “The Asia Pacific video industry continues to experience a secular shift from TV to online in […]
All-electric single-seater racing series Formula E has agreed a new strategic multi-year media partnership with Red Bull Media House, DF1 and ServusTV that will deliver all Formula E races live in Germany and Austria across free-to-air (FTA), pay-TV and digital channels beginning this coming season. Formula E races and qualifying sessions will broadcast live on […]
In a move that will further bolster its growing streaming business, with the international rollout of Max beginning in the next few months, Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has acquired BluTV, an SVoD service in Turkey. The announcement follows three years of extensive partnership, which started in 2021 with the launch of discovery+ on BluTV and an […]
Virgin Media O2 has released its Year in Review which presents a deep dive of trends, habits and behaviours across its broadband, mobile and TV services, revealing that 2023 saw new usage records. The pandemic and Covid restrictions might be a thing of the past for some, but its impact on how Brits are now […]