Origination has become of even greater strategic importance to Netflix as it builds its worldwide footprint and faces competition from the owners of the biggest content catalogues in the world (US studios) and deeply entrenched local players. Analysis from Omdia of PlumResearch data reveals the importance of originals in the US and other key Netflix […]

The opening fixture of the Ashes series brought Sky Sports its highest ever viewing figures for a cricket Test match, with a peak of 2.12 million viewers in home. An average audience of 1.17 million tuned in on day five, with a combined average of 877k across all five days of the match, making it […]

Portuguese multiplay operator MEO and SkyShowtime have agreed a wide-ranging distribution deal that will bring the streaming service to millions of additional households in Portugal. The deal represents SkyShowtime’s first Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (MVPD) relationship in the Portuguese market, with the SkyShowtime app now available on MEO’s platform. SkyShowtime’s exclusive series and first-run Hollywood […]

Marking the brand’s 30th anniversary, audio solutions specialist DTS  has released its Tuning In To Sensational Entertainment Trends report, uncovering consumers’ preferences and habits around their entertainment experiences, at home and on the go. The survey, in partnership with Opinium, showcases that sound quality is very to somewhat important to 85 per cent of respondents […]

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 […]