Paramount Skydance has confirmed plans to combine the HBO Max and Paramount+ SVoD platforms into one service. Paramount CEO David Ellison made the – perhaps somewhat unsurprising – announcement during a call with investors on March 2nd, just days after the company said it would acquire Warner Bros Discovery, the parent company of HBO. The […]
Reinforcing Connected TV’s growing role within total video strategies, nearly seven in 10 CTV advertisers (70 per cent) expect to increase their CTV spending, with an average rise of 17 per cent, according to the 2026 CTV/OTT Advertiser Survey released by Advertiser Perceptions and Premion, the CTV/OTT advertising solution for regional and local advertisers in […]
SES, releasing its full year results for 2025, says that it has won €1.8 billion of new business during the year. SES now serves more than 2 billion viewers and some 700 million homes with its signals. However, overall revenues fell back by -1.6 per cent (2024 like for like €3.65 billion. 2025 €3.51 billion). […]
A study by tech strategist Juniper Research predicts that global Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) subscriber revenue will reach over $54 billion (€45.9bn) in 2030. This is a growth of 14 per cent from $47 billion in 2026. The report forecasts that MVNO launches by new enterprises will drive growth; however, growth will be restrained by […]
Rakuten TV, the European streaming platform, has announced a collaboration with Prime Video to launch multiple FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channels across Germany, Spain and Italy. Three Rakuten TV owned and operated channels FAST channels – Rakuten TV Romance, Planet Action and 21 Jump Street – have launched in Germany, while O&O channel Alerta Cobra […]
BBC executives are to appear before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons as MPs explore the changing ways in which young people watch television and video. The session, on March 3rd, part of the children’s TV and video content inquiry, will examine the corporation’s role in commissioning and producing […]
Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar reported a net pay-TV subscriber drop of 168,000 in Q4 2025, compared to a decrease of approximately 253,000 in the same period a year ago. The US telco company ended the year with 7 million pay-TV subscribers, including 5.02 million Dish TV subscribers and 1.98 million Sling TV subscribers. The company lost […]
More than a quarter of Brits (28 per cent) think streaming services should introduce rewards for binge-watching, such as unlocking discounts after streaming a set number of hours or completing a season. The finding comes from the newly released The future of bundling waits for no one report from Bango, which surveyed 1,500 UK consumers. […]
Vodafone and Amazon Leo have signed an agreement to extend mobile coverage across Europe and Africa. The news emerged from the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. This announcement is additional to the agreement with AST SpaceMobile also announced at the show. Vodafone will use Amazon Leo satellites to connect more remote mobile masts and […]
Telia has entered into an agreement to increase its ownership in Finnish fibre operator Valokuitunen from 40 per cent to 49 per cent. Formed in 2020 as a joint venture between Telia and CapMan Infra, Valokuitunen is Finland’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) market leader. The company’s network reaches more than 400,000 homes in over 100 municipalities through […]
Deutsche Telekom is expanding its network coverage through satellite-based direct connectivity. In partnership with Starlink, Deutsche Telekom will bring mobile communications to areas where network expansion is particularly challenging, such as areas with nature conservation requirements or demanding topography. “We provide our customers with the best mobile network. And we continue to invest heavily in […]
Investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, and its analyst Andres Sheppard, has raised its target price on RocketLab’s shares from $72 to $85, and maintained an ‘Overweight’ rating on the rocket company’s prospects. Cantor remains positive on RocketLab following the recent Q4 earnings report [See our report on Friday 27], and the acquisition of Geost is significant, […]
Congratulations(!!???) to Paramount shareholders – you have won the battle for Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). Your board has done it by throwing the kitchen sink at its target – that’s a sink with a super clever three way tap and a massive waste disposal unit. You have to read the terms they have offered more […]