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Report: Canada’s video entertainment market maintains momentum

Canada’s video entertainment sector continues its steady expansion, achieving 1 per cent value growth in 2024, and with total consumer spend projected to increase by 3 per cent in 2025. That’s according to Futuresource Consulting’s latest video insights report, which points to a market worth CA$12.4 billion (€7.75bn) by the end of the year. The […]

August 12, 2025

Research: Value-added bundles winning US consumers

With rising inflation and growing pressure on household budgets, US consumers are feeling the strain, especially when navigating an increasingly fragmented and costly TV subscription landscape. Since 2018, Hub Entertainment Research’s Monetizing Video has tracked how consumers prioritise spending across TV and streaming services, which services and features offer the best value. Key findings from […]

August 12, 2025

Data: Summer of sport drives readership surge for UK publications

A busy summer of sport is generating a surge of readership for UK media outlets, according to data from Taboola, with TV and digital audience figures for major events also breaking previous records. Wimbledon netted the top spot as this summer’s most read about sporting event, with articles around the tournament receiving 35 million page […]

August 12, 2025

Agentic AI, Space Tech top SXSW London Trends Report

SXSW London has released its inaugural trends report, capturing the standout insights, provocations and future-facing themes that emerged during a week of future thinking and creative collaboration at the first SXSW London which took place in Shoreditch in June. Over six days, 20,505 attendees from 85 countries converged across 34 venues to take part in […]

August 11, 2025

Data: Italian TV consumption continues to decline

Average daily TV audiences in Italy, both in prime time (-1.5 per cent) and for the full day (-1.9 per cent), saw a slight decrease in Q1 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, continuing a more significant decline observed since 2021. According to the quarterly Communications Observatory of the Italian Communications Regulatory Authority […]

August 8, 2025From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Research: TV remains most acceptable ad platform among US adults

Nearly half of all US adults say TV is the most acceptable place for advertising – a feeling that is consistent across all generations – and the platform where they tend to pay attention to ads the most. The data, conducted by Tenetic in conjunction with CivicScience, in July 2025 among 10,000 responses found that […]

August 8, 2025

Research: Telco/satellite collaborations still in early stages

A new wave of partnerships between telcos and satellite/non-terrestrial network (NTN) players is reshaping the connectivity landscape, but the market remains far from mature, analyst house STL Partners has reported in its satellite tracker report Skywatch. STL Partners’ analysis of 74 announcements since January 2024 reveals a striking trend: only 20 per cent of the […]

August 8, 2025

Report: Italy favours ad-supported streaming

DEGI: The Digital Entertainment Group International, in partnership with Fabric, has unveiled its sixth report on global regions and country deep-dives, focusing on the entertainment landscape across Europe. This overview offers insights into France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, including transactional trends in these four countries. It highlights Italy’s preference for ad-supported streaming and the popularity […]

August 8, 2025

Ofcom: Pay-TV and broadband complaints rise

Ofcom has published the latest figures for complaints it has received about the UK’s main mobile, broadband and pay-TV providers. These figures cover the first quarter of 2025, from January to March. During this period, complaints about fixed broadband and pay-TV increased and complaints about landline and mobile stayed the same. Key findings: Virgin Media […]

August 7, 2025

Report: US advertisers boosted TV spend in H1

Samba TV, a specialist in AI-driven media intelligence, has released its H1 2025 State of Advertising report revealing a clear signal of advertiser strength in the US with 68 per cent of the top 100 advertisers increasing their TV spend in the first half of the year, a clear sign of renewed confidence and momentum […]

August 7, 2025