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 […]
Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has partnered with Facebook to extend its Olympic Winter Games digital coverage to people on Facebook across Europe. Facebook communities in Germany, Sweden and Norway will be able to tune in live to Eurosport’s coverage of the PyeongChang 2018 Opening Ceremony on February 9th. Daily highlights, clips and interviews from Eurosport’s […]
US pay-TV platform DISH is to deliver NBCUniversal’s 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR) coverage of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games from PyeongChang, South Korea. DISH subscribers will also have access to 2,400 hours of NBCUniversal’s Olympic live, on-demand and streaming coverage—the most ever for a Winter Games. “For the first time, The Winter Olympics will […]
With Discovery and its leading sports brand Eurosport on track to deliver the Olympic Winter Games to more people, across more screens than ever before, the broadcaster has developed a first-of-its kind methodology to measure audience behaviour across Europe. Discovery has unveiled three new metrics, which together will capture ‘Total Video’ – the new ‘TV’—across […]
2017 marked a greater convergence in TV, Internet and video usage in France, according to data from meadia reaserch group Médiamétrie. Still rising, these usages complete and add to each other. In 2017, Internet and catch-up screens represented 8.7 per cent of daily individual viewing time in France. Although OTT and SVoD complete the landscape […]
The BBC says it will remain the free-to-air home for football after announcing it will continue to show English Premier League TV highlights for a further three years. It secured the rights following an open and competitive processwith a bid of £211.5 million (€240.5m). In the 2016-17 season, the BBC’s Premier League football programming was […]