Parks Associates has published findings from Streaming Competition and Profitability: Pricing Models & Retention Strategies report revealing that affordability has overtaken content availability as the dominant reason consumers cancel video services. In 2025, 30 per cent of US consumers cite cutting household expenses as the top reason for canceling a streaming service, up from 26 […]
The final quarter of 2025 revealed a divergence in performance across Big Tech platforms, with Amazon emerging as the clear outperformer against expectations while YouTube fell notably short, according to analysis from WARC Media. WARC Media’s Earnings Debrief is a new quarterly series that reviews the financial releases of Big Tech and compares their ad […]
BT Group has announced leadership succession within its Openreach and BT International units. Openreach Deputy CEO Katie Milligan will become the CEO on April 1st. She succeeds Clive Selley, who will become CEO of BT International. He succeeds Bas Burger who has decided to leave BT after 18 years of service, including nine years on […]
The EW Scripps Company has confirmed an agreement to sell its Court TV network to Law&Crime – the multiplatform true crime and legal content studio created and led by ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams and now owned by media creator holding company Jellysmack. Scripps relaunched Court TV in May 2019 after acquiring the […]
Philippines mobile operator Globe Telecom has become the first in Southeast Asia, and the second in Asia, to offer Starlink’s Direct‑to‑Cell (DTC) satellite service. Joining a growing group of countries worldwide, Globe’s partnership with Starlink marks a historic milestone in global connectivity. Using satellite technology, Filipinos using standard LTE mobile phones will be able to […]
iSpot, the cross-platform TV ad measurement and attribution company, has announced the launch of iSpot SAGE, an agentic AI-powered that changes how independent measurement can be leveraged to unlock new insights, accelerate workflows, drive better consumer connections and assure advertising effectiveness. In order for SAGE to generate deep insights from its data, iSpot has made […]
Gilat Satellite Networks, the specialist in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, has reported its results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31st 2025. Revenue came in at $137 million (€115.07m), up 75 per cent compared with $78.1 million in Q4 2024. Full year revenue stood at $451.7 million, up 48 per […]
X has announced an exclusive partnership with Real Madrid, the top-flight Spanish football club, to launch Real talks – a new, player-driven X Original series that puts fans in the driver’s seat like never before. The 15-time European champions become the first international football club to join X Originals growing slate of entertainment giving access […]
Following a competitive public tender process, Rai (Radiotelevisione Italiana), the national public broadcasting company of Italy, has awarded Imagine Communications a three-year frame contract via local systems integrator Allyn Srl to support its transition from SDI to IP. The agreement positions Imagine’s Selenio Network Processor (SNP) as a core building block in Rai’s evolutionary migration […]
Air Cambodia has selected AirFi to deliver wireless streaming inflight entertainment (IFE) across its fleet. Under the partnership, AirFi’s streaming IFE platform will be deployed across Air Cambodia’s fleet of Airbus A320 and ATR 72-series aircraft, including the ATR 72-600, enabling passengers to access entertainment directly on their own devices. The service, live now, forms […]
The Professional Fighters League (PFL) has announced a deal with Movistar Plus+, the Spanish pay-TV provider, to broadcast all 24 PFL Global and International League events in 2026. The deal will allow Movistar Plus+ subscribers to watch PFL on Vamos por M+ (channel available to all Movistar Plus+ customers), the entry-level package, ensuring enhanced exposure […]
TerreStar has enjoyed – and suffered – a somewhat chequered history. Formerly known as Motient Corp and American Mobile Satellite, it declared bankruptcy back in 2010. XM Satellite Radio (now incorporated into SiriusXM) was a spin-off from TerreStar. The chair of the now Montreal-based business says that to compete with American giants, it intends to […]
Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic have come out against the Netflix takeover of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). What did Netflix ever do to them? Well, in the case of the US, it’s more a question of what Netflix hasn’t done for them. Because it’s never been a network, it’s never had the wherewithal […]