In the week that reports emerged that UK public broadcasters the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are once again in talks to create a joint streaming service to take on the increasing dominance that Netflix and Amazon Prime Video hold in the UK, a senior member of UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom has declared the 2009 […]
UK consumer champion Which? and pro-copyright education body The Industry Trust for IP Awareness have collaborated to launch the new Film Finder tool, which connects audiences to the broadest range of films and TV shows available in the UK, whilst also driving engagement with legal services. The Film Finder, integrated within the Which? website, is […]
Far from being seen as a replacement for pay-TV, both multichannel and non-multichannel TV households in Europe are adopting online SVoD services, primarily as supplemental video entertainment, according to findings from Kagan, the TMT research arm of S&P Global Market Intelligence. According to analyst Keith Nissen, while a number of cord cutters are adopting SVoD, […]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, speaking at last week’s Series Mania festival and conference in Lille, France, said that he will spend €1 billion this year in boosting European production and to start meeting the planned European 30 per cent quota on local content output. The EU ruling come in three years from now. Hastings told […]
Responding to what they describe as the arrival of new international players in the drama market, in particular the SVoD market, and its disruptive effect on the European audiovisual landscape, European public service broadcasters France Télévisions, Germany’s ZDF and Italy’s RAI are taking what they say is a new era in their collaboration. In an […]
Amazon Prime Video was the fastest-growing VoD service in the UK last year according to figures from UK ratings body Barb. New series of
Dolby Laboratories, LG Electronics and Rakuten TV have confirmed that Rakuten TV will be the first VoD service in Europe to roll out Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging and Dolby Atmos sound technologies for selected movie titles across LG OLED and SUHD connected TVs. The first slate of movies is available in the […]
Hulu, the US streaming service, has announced that it now has over 20 million subscribers, up from the 17 million back in January. The company said: “total engagement: is up by 60 per cent. That 20 million total is spread across Hulu’s various service tiers including its core ad-supported service, Hulu with No Commercials, and […]
The cord-cutting trend that threatens the future of the global pay-TV industry was not confined solely to the United States in 2017 according to business information provider IHS Markit; total pay-TV subscriptions also declined in 13 other markets. Customers cancelling their TV services in favour of online alternatives has been a key factor in declining […]
According to the latest Market Snapshot: OTT and Pay TV: Partnerships and Competition, from research and consulting firm Parks Associates, which examines competition in the US entertainment marketplace as partnerships between pay-TV and OTT within the video space become more common, over half of broadband households have a combination of pay-TV and at least one […]