Since 2014, Netflix’s catalogue of movie titles has dropped by 40 per cent with over 2,600 fewer films now available for streaming, according to a report from Streaming Observer. And things may only get worse in the coming months as Comcast (NBCUniversal), FOX, WarnerMedia, and Disney all continue to pull content from Netflix to bolster […]
According to Kantar’s global 2020 Media Trends & Predictions report, technology will continue to redefine the media landscape in 2020, creating opportunities and challenges for marketers. As ad spend on social and tech platforms continues to grow; technology innovations will also enable a renaissance in real-world engagement. Kantar believes that marketers and media owners will […]
Half of small businesses in the creative industry say technology helps them compete with larger organisations – and levels the playing field in a fiercely competitive industry – according to findings by Vodafone. The research, which surveyed 500 creative industry small businesses in the UK, revealed that 40 per cent produce their best ideas and […]
More than 300 million pay-TV households worldwide now subscribe to operators who offer access to Netflix through their set-top boxes (STBs), thanks to an increasing number of partnership deals with the streaming giant. To date, Netflix has struck over 100 major partnership deals. These operator deals give Netflix theoretical access to nearly half of all […]
Italian pay-TV revenues dropped by 8 per cent in the decade 2009-2019, while costs for the Italian Serie A increased by 78 per cent, according to a report by Enders Analysis, carried by Business Insider Italia. Perhaps of more concern is that the number of Italian pay-TV subscribers dropped by 1.15 million in 2018, partly […]
Roy Morgan research shows over 14.5 million Australians now have access to some form of pay-TV/subscription TV, up 8.2 per cent on a year ago. The combined audience for these services is almost 70 per cent of the Australian population, as new subscription TV services Apple TV+ and Disney+ enter the market this month. Netflix […]
GroupM has published its latest UK ad forecast which provides an even larger growth projection for 2020 than was originally predicted in its June forecast. One of the major reasons for this, says the media investment company, is because as more digital endemic marketers increasingly replace traditional companies that came before them, spending shares will […]
Consumption of pirated online film, television and music content in the EU is falling, according to a new report by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The research shows that between 2017 and 2018, overall access to pirated content in the EU fell by 15.1 per cent on average. The fastest decline was seen […]
The number of pay-TV subscriptions in Spain slowed down in the first half of the year with a year-on-year growth of 2.1 per cent to 6.8 million, and with a slight decline of 1.2 per cent on the first three months of 2019, according to the latest report from the CNMC. Movistar leads the market […]
European content (film and TV) represents 30 per cent of all content found on TVoD and 26 per cent of SVoD in the EU if considered as film and TV series titles and/or seasons (as opposed to individual episodes) according to the latest report from the European Audiovisual Observatory. Counting individual episodes, European content (film […]