Swiss telco Sunrise has announced that Disney+ is now fully integrated into the TV Shop on the Sunrise TV Box. Customers can now subscribe to Disney+ and other streaming services with just one click directly via the TV Shop or My Sunrise and manage their subscriptions. In addition to Disney+, other popular streaming services such […]
Recurly, a specialist in the subscription management and billing platform, has released its ninth annual State of Subscriptions report. The report analyses data from millions of consumers providing deep insight into the subscription economy’s evolution. This report offers strategies and solutions for merchants to overcome the industry’s ever-evolving nature and subscription challenges to drive growth. […]
Crunchyroll, the online home for anime, is now available on Sky TV platforms in the UK and Ireland, enabling Sky customers to access the service directly through Sky Glass and Sky Stream. The service will additionally be available on Sky Q later in the year. Crunchyroll’s service, whch currently boasts around 15 million subscribers, grants […]
Five per cent of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) saw a 0.2 Mbps increase, 70 per cent remained the same, and 25 per cent experienced a decrease of 0.2 to 0.6 Mbps this month on the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which ISPs provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. Three countries […]
Disney+ has announced Caroline (w/t), an Original feature length documentary film that will celebrate the life and career of one of the UK’s most popular TV presenters, Caroline Flack, who hosted the likes of Love Island and The X Factor. The feature will follow Christine, Caroline’s mother, as she seeks to understand the events in […]
Disney Advertising, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, has shared its estimated global and domestic ad-supported monthly active users (MAU) numbers, cumulative across its streaming portfolio, and its detailed calculation methodology. At CES, President of Global Advertising, Rita Ferro, revealed that the company’s ad-supported monthly active users have reached an estimated 157 million globally, […]
Netflix and WWE have revealed that the debut episode of RAW on Netflix performed strongly, with the January 6th programme capturing 4.9 million Live+1 views globally. The inaugural event on Netflix averaged 2.6 million households (Live+SD) in the US, according to VideoAmp, which is 116 per cent higher than RAW’s average 2024 US audience of […]
Streaming services and the retail-led vinyl revival pushed UK music consumption and recorded music revenues in 2024 to a 20-year high and an all-time record, exceeding the pinnacle of the CD era, according to annual figures released by digital entertainment and retail association ERA. Consumption reached the equivalent of 201.4 million albums a year. Streaming […]
According to Openreach’s annual update, broadband traffic across the UK increased by 10.5 per cent in 2024 to 103,590 Petabytes (PB) of data. A closer look at the numbers reveals that peaks coincided with specific online events, such as Prime Video’s Premier League coverage, the release of popular gaming title downloads, the setup of new […]
From January 6th, WWE’s flagship weekly TV shows – Raw, SmackDown and NXT – as well as all WWE Premium Live Events, including the likes of WrestleMania, SummerSlam and the Royal Rumble, will stream exclusively on Netflix in the UK, throughout Europe, and beyond. As first reported in January 2024, Netflix has secured the rights […]