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Data: ITVX premium growth accelerates

Marketing data and analytics company Kantar has released its latest Entertainment on Demand (EoD) data on the British streaming market. Kantar’s EoD study in Great Britain uncovers the following behaviours within the VoD market between January to March 2023: VoD-enabled households that subscribed to at least one video streaming service in Great Britain fell to […]

April 20, 2023By Colin Mann

Survey: Increased upfront spend likely

Real-time TV measurement company iSpot.tv has released its 2023 TV Upfronts study, revealing new findings around 2023 upfront plans for brands and agencies. The company surveyed over 500 advertising professionals across TV’s top advertising sectors to determine how ad-buying plans will change this year, while also revealing more about the growing role of streaming and […]

April 20, 2023

Netflix Q1 disappoints

Netflix added 1.75 million new subscribers in the quarter to the end of March, lower than the analyst consensus expectations of 2.3 million net new additions. Netflix is also somewhat putting back its ‘paid share’ scheme – i.e. making subs pay for shared passwords – as, perhaps not surprisingly, it has had a ‘cancel reaction’ […]

April 19, 2023By Chris Forrester

Research: Black households strong streamers

Black Americans over-index for using free OTT services compared to the total market, with four in five (80 per cent) using them within the past month, compared to 69 per cent of consumers overall. In fact, usage of free OTT services among Black audiences has grown tremendously from 13 per cent since 2019, according to […]

April 19, 2023

Telefónica, Siminn television roaming trial

Spanish telco Telefónica and Siminn, Iceland’s largest telecommunications operator, have successfully carried out what they say is the first proof of concept for TV roaming. Both companies have been able to demonstrate the feasibility of distributing video services with local delivery when the user is on a visited network by interconnecting their Content Delivery Networks […]

April 18, 2023By Colin Mann

RTL AdAlliance, LG Ad Solutions partnership

Connected TV (CTV) cross-screen advertising specialist LG Ad Solutions and RTL AdAlliance, RTL Group’s international advertising sales house, have expanded their exclusive partnership to offer a combined CTV buying approach for data-driven CTV ads within the smart interface of LG TV devices across multiple European markets for one year. After a successful rollout in Italy, […]

April 18, 2023

Love The Planet launches on Samsung TV Plus

Samsung Electronics and FAST channels brand Love TV Channels have unveiled Love The Planet, the latest channel to join Samsung TV Plus in Europe. The new channel, localised for the key markets of the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, will spread awareness on environmental issues via curated TV streaming content. Love The Planet created […]

April 18, 2023

Forecast: OTT revenues to reach $235bn by 2028

Global OTT TV episode and movies revenues will reach $235 billion (€212bn) in 2028, up by $81 billion from $154 billion on 2022, according to the Global OTT TV and Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. About $17 billion will be added in 2023 alone. AVoD will grow faster than SVoD. AVoD […]

April 17, 2023

Singapore: Site blocking success

Trade body the Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) has commended the Singapore High Court for its latest Order to block another 20 illegal streaming sites and associated domains responsible for the distribution of illegally streamed content in Singapore. Under the Order, Internet Service Providers must disable access to these illegal sites and […]

April 17, 2023By Colin Mann

WBD unveils unified Max SVoD

Max is to be the name for the SVoD service from Warner Bros Discovery which will replace HBO Max and discovery+. Set to launch in the US on May 23rd, with European rollout scheduled for 2024, Max will incorporate HBO Originals, Warner Bros films, Max Originals, the DC universe, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, […]

April 13, 2023By Colin Mann