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Canada: Telus discounts Crunchyroll

Canadian telco Telus has announced that anime enthusiasts can now enjoy Crunchyroll, the premier destination for streaming anime series, with exclusive savings. Available immediately, Telus customers can get Crunchyroll as a standalone subscription with eligible Telus services. As a special offer, customers who add Crunchyroll together with Stream+, the entertainment bundle featuring Canada’s most popular […]

January 21, 2025

Switzerland: Sunrise integrates Disney+

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 […]

January 17, 2025

Report: Retention beats acquisition in subscription trends

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. […]

January 16, 2025

Crunchyroll app comes to Sky

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 […]

January 16, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Survey: 37% Brits envisage no terrestrial TV in 20 years

Research commissioned by Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) polled the nation to discover how Brits envisage everyday life in 20 years’ time, with 61 per cent believing that life will be unrecognisable from the way we live today. Half (49 per cent) think social media will be banned for under sixteens, while 37 per cent believe […]

January 14, 2025

Spain, Hong Kong, Singapore top Netflix ISP Speed Index

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 […]

January 14, 2025

Netflix out draws BBC1

Netflix was the most-watched TV service in the UK for three months last year, overtaking BBC1 for the first time. Outranking Britain’s most popular channel may not have been permanent, but it is a significant milestone in the rivalry between traditional broadcasters and global streamers. The BBC said it was “meaningless” to compare the entirety […]

January 13, 2025

My5 viewing grows at record rate in 2024

Channel 5 has reported that its streaming service, My5, grew at its fastest ever rate in 2024 with Barb TV Viewing Minutes (TVM) for the service up a record 53 per cent versus 2023. This record level of growth was higher than any other PSB streaming service over 2024 (based on Barb TVM year-on-year growth […]

January 10, 2025

Disney+ orders Caroline Flack doc

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 […]

January 10, 2025

Disney: 157m global MAU for streaming ad-tiers

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, […]

January 9, 2025