In 2023, 61 per cent of the French consumers – some 27.5 million individuals – paid to watch a sport or entertainment content online, spending an average of €38 per month. According to its barometer of non-linear OTT cultural and sport content, French TV regulator Arcom states that available access to OTT content increased by […]

Movistar Plus+ and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) have announced an extension of their partnership to bring content from WBD’s portfolio of entertainment, sports, films and news to Movistar Plus+ customers in Spain. This includes the upcoming streaming service Max which is due to launch in Spain in spring 2024. As part of the deal, Movistar+ […]

To mark the final season of The Crown, Netflix has released The Crown: Behind the Streams, a report celebrating the cultural, community and economic impact of the multi-award-winning show that has sparked a global conversation — and put quintessentially British landmarks, traditions and even music front and centre of what people around the world are […]

MediaRadar, advertising intelligence and sales enablement platform, analysed US ad spend from the top six OTT ad-supported streaming services:  Discovery+, Hulu, Max, Paramount+, Peacock and Pluto TV. Data was from January 1st 2022 through October 31st 2023. Key findings include: Top Six Streaming Platforms Collect Over $1 Billion in Advertising From January through October 2023, […]

Hisense, has announced the integration of NOW into its smart TVs across the UK. The software update, available now, will provide Hisense TV viewers with easy access to NOW’s slate of TV, movies and sports. Arun Bhatoye, Head of Marketing at Hisense UK, commented: “We are delighted to bring NOW to our range of TV […]

New and existing customers on TalkTalk’s fibre broadband packages (Fibre 35 & 65) can now get the TalkTalk TV Hub. The TV Hub launched earlier this year as a limited release for its Full Fibre customers and after strong demand, the connectivity provider will now be rolling out the release more widely. The TV Hub […]

Netflix has announced it will start, with immediate effect, giving more insight into what subscribers are watching. In a blog post, the streamer said: “Starting today we will publish What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report twice a year. This is a comprehensive report of what people watched on Netflix over a six month period.” […]

Everyone TV – the organisation responsible for the development of free TV in the UK – has unveiled the brand identity and first smart TV partner for its new streaming service, Freely. Freely will be built into the next generation of smart TVs, with Hisense announced as the first partner to offer Freely from 2024, […]

France has become the most prevalent non-English speaking and production country on SVoD platforms across the world. According to findings from Cinema and TV export body Unifrance, around 5,943 French cinema and TV titles were available up to July 2023 on worldwide platforms, representing 4 per cent of the global SVoD worldwide library outside of […]

Prime Video has announced the launch of its first dedicated anime Channel, Anime Times on Prime Video Channels in India. A streaming service focused on Japanese animation, Anime Times has been available on Prime Video Channels in Japan, and is now debuting into India with an array of anime movies and TV shows, along with […]