The total pay-TV services revenue in Australia is set to decline at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.6 per cent from $2.4 billion (€2bn) in 2020 to $2.1 billion in 2025 due to continued drop in cable TV and DTH subscriptions and revenue, reveals GlobalData, a data and analytics company. According to GlobalData’s […]

Benesse Corporation, the Japanese education services company, and the name behind the successful preschool character and educational property Shimajiro, has announced the imminent launch of a new SVoD service specialising in children’s programmes. The new service, called Meecha!, will be launched in Japan at the end of March. Meecha! will bring together both programme content […]

FITE, the global digital platform for sports and entertainment, has announced that the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) will return on March 21st with a live pay-per-view event, the first since promotion since went on hiatus due to the global pandemic early last year. Following the Back For The Attack PPV, the NWA will resume a […]

The BBC has confirmed the return of BBC Three to TV screens as a linear channel in January 2022. In February 2016, the service became the first TV channel in the world to make the switch from linear broadcast channel to online-first destination. The BBC’s Annual Plan 2020/21, published last year, outlined research which confirmed […]

Research from omnichannel sell-side advertising platform Magnite finds almost seven in 10 (69 per cent) UK consumers prefer streaming services to broadcast linear TV (31 per cent). The study, CTV: The Future Forward, identifies

Nielsen and Roku have announced a strategic alliance that that they say will help shape the future of media and TV measurement in a streaming-first market. Roku has entered into an agreement to acquire Nielsen’s Advanced Video Advertising (AVA) business, which includes Nielsen’s video automatic content recognition (ACR) and dynamic ad insertion (DAI) technologies. The […]

Conviva has publised Q4 2020 data on streaming TV growth and viewing trends. While many industries throughout Europe and around the globe struggled amid the pressures of Covid-19, streaming comparatively flourished. New streaming services emerged from well-established television players, capturing the hearts, minds and money of those in lockdown seeking entertainment. Key findings include: Europe […]

Virgin Media has announced that the latest update in its TV line-up, Virgin TV 360, is now available to all of its customers. Virgin TV 360 offers  modern menus, quick navigation and a whole host of popular apps and channels all in one place. This includes Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and BBC iPlayer – all […]

South Africa’s public broadcaster, SABC, wants the government to create a “household tax” on every home to fund its activities. “The current TV licence fee system should be scrapped and replaced with a device-independent, tech-neutral household levy for public broadcasting, which would levy all households, with exemption for the indigent and discounts for pensioners,” said […]

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company and Tet, the Latvian technology and entertainment company, have signed a deal that will bring Viaplay’s original Nordic productions, Hollywood films and series, premium sports an kids’ content to hundreds of thousands of Tet’s TV services customers. Viaplay will launch in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania with […]