BBC Three is expanding its commissioning remit, with an additional £10 million (€11.17m) investment to launch a new editorial pillar, two years after going online. “This is an exciting creative moment for the channel and the production community as we are broadening the scope of our commissioning,” commented Damian Kavanagh, Controller BBC Three. “We have […]
The Online & On Demand 2017 report, based on research conducted by Nielsen on behalf of Screen Australia, finds streaming services have completely changed how Australians view content, yet broadcast TV remains popular and piracy levels have declined drastically. “The global screen industry is in a rapid period of change, driven by technology,” noted Fiona […]
With the closing of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Discovery says it has delivered on its commitment to engage more people, on more screens than ever before across Europe. Viewers embraced Discovery’s production of the Olympic Games in record numbers, including the most immersive coverage, every minute live on digital, and the best experts analysing […]
Research from marketing science academic Professor Karen Nelson-Field has uncovered new insights into how and why video advertising works for brands when viewed on mobile devices. The ‘mobile edition’ of Professor Nelson-Field’s ongoing
Free TV on demand service UKTV Play is now available on NOW TV devices and Roku streaming players. The UKTV Play app hosts shows from multichannel broadcaster UKTV’s channels Dave, Yesterday, Really and Drama, including exclusive UKTV Originals and thousands of hours from the network’s extensive archive. NOW TV and Roku users will now have […]
Every Viaplay customer now spends an average of 32 hours a month viewing content on digital entertainment group MTG’s Nordic video streaming service – a 25 per cent increase between 2016 and 2017. The number of started streams rose 40.5 per cent in the same period, with the total number of Viaplay customers growing 21 […]
Channel 4 is pulling its flagship HD channel and All4 catch-up service from Freesat in a row over carriage fees. Channel 4’s standard definition channels will remain on the satellite platform as per their obligation as a public service broadcaster. In an email to users, Freesat said: “We’re sorry to announce that All 4 and 4HD […]
Bouygues Telecom has signed a deal to bring M6 content to its subscribers in France. The agreement will allow Bouygues to offer the M6 library to subscribers including flagship channel M6, as well as W9, 6ter, Paris Premiere, Teva, M6 Music, M6 Shop, Best of Shopping and Girondins TV. Bouygues subscribers will also be able […]
Results from a UK consumer survey carried out by Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, indicate that it is digital entertainment behaviour, rather than demographics, which best identifies the profiles of current and future users of online subscription video on demand, or SVoD, services. An individual’s digital entertainment behaviour encompasses the […]
BBC iPlayer recorded its best year ever in 2017. Viewers streamed 272 million programmes per month on average over the course of the year, with total requests growing to 3.3 billion – an 11 per cent increase on the previous year. The most popular show of 2017 was the first episode of natural history series […]