Research by Ampere Analysis reveals that the growth of streaming services has intensified competition across the TV landscape driving an upsurge in content spend. Ampere found that global spend on TV, film and sports content expanded from $100 billion (€89.91bn) to $165 billion between 2008 and 2018 – a 65 per cent increase. Nearly $50 […]
Apple has added Amazon Fire to the platforms on which its TV service is available for launch. The App is added the Fire TV Stick 4k, the 2nd generation Fire TV Stick and the Fire TV Basic Edition. The announcement follows similar launches on Roku dongles and Samsung smart TVs – with support for LG, […]
Liftoff, a specialist in mobile app marketing and retargeting, has released its annual report on the state of mobile technology adoption in Japan with Adjust, experts in mobile measurement and fraud prevention. While streaming giants have yet to crack the country’s subscription market, the study reveals
Around the world, streaming video viewing has reached an all-time high of six hours, 48 minutes a week, with 82 per cent of people who watch online video reporting binge-watching, according to the latest State of Online Video research report from edge cloud services provider Limelight Networks. Binge-watching sessions are on the rise worldwide, jumping […]
Premier motorsport category Formula 1 is to live stream on-track action from a Grand Prix weekend via the Twitch web site and app for the very first time. All sessions at the Mexican Grand Prix over the weekend of October 25th to October 27th will be shown live and free in Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Denmark, […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic region’s leading streaming company, has entered into an agreement with Telenor Group to combine its Viasat Consumer (satellite pay-TV and broadband-TV operations) with Canal Digital (satellite pay-TV). The combination will result in the parties each holding 50 per cent of the shares of the new joint venture company […]
FITE, the digital streaming combat sports platform, has released its inaugural State of the Industry Report, which includes exclusive data on viewership, geographic breakdown of fans who typically stream pay-per-view sporting events, how they are tuning in, a ranking of popular streaming devices and preferred combat sporting events – from boxing and MMA to pro […]
US digital advertising revenues reached $57.9 billion (€51.9bn) during the first six months of 2019 – the highest spend in history for the first half of the year – according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report released by IAB and prepared by PwC US. The record-breaking total marks a 17 per cent year-over-year […]
Research from Ampere Analysis has revealed that China is responsible for over half of the world’s brand-new drama productions. In the last six months alone, leading Chinese broadcasters and OTT services commissioned nearly 300 new drama series – as many as all of its international peers combined. Analysis of new data
Alchimie, the content aggregator and distributor, has announced a new move into Japanese content with a deal with NHK Enterprises, a subsidiary to a public broadcaster NHK, to distribute a range of wildlife programming. NHK’s programming is often seen as the gateway to Asia bringing a Japanese perspective and fresh insights on current events and […]