BARB, the UK’s television audience measurement currency, has released data from its Establishment Survey for Q2 2021. Due to restrictions on carrying out fieldwork during the pandemic, these are the first quarterly results released since Q3 2020. The survey reveals that the number of UK households with a subscription to any SVoD service is now […]
The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB), in partnership with the British Film Commission, has announced the participants for its inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Mentor Scheme which has matched 15 talented mentees with experienced industry mentors working in UK film and High-End TV production. Aimed at individuals working in all grades and departments represented by […]
Commerce Signals, a Verisk company and specialist in payment based marketing solutions, has announced the SVOD Trends Report, a new service that tracks and analyses consumer subscription behavior on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Paramount+ and Peacock across a variety of key performance indicators. The SVOD Trends Report is a companion service […]
Amazon has announced it will air the UEFA Champions League in Italy in streaming 4K HDR. A total of 17 matches will be shown per season, every Wednesday, for three seasons, until 2023-2024, along with the UEFA Super Cup. The matches will be exclusively broadcast on Prime Video at no additional cost for Prime subscribers […]
UK adults sought solace in screens and streaming in 2020, spending a third of their waking hours watching TV and online video content, according to broadcast regulator Ofcom’s annual study of the nation’s media habits. With people across the UK under some form of lockdown restrictions for most of last year, more than 2,000 hours […]
In the post-pandemic viewing and streaming media ecosystem, Latinx viewership continues to reflect the broad range of contemporary US Latinx identities and household demographics. According to a Horowitz Research survey, demand is ever-expanding for new, high-quality Spanish-language content on par with English-language content among individuals and families with identities ranging from Hispanic to Afro-Latino/a/x and […]
BritBox, the ITV/BBC OTT joint-venture, will launch on August 6th in South Africa with a charge of R100/month (€5.70). Customers who sign up for a one-year subscription – a Rand 999.90 commitment — will get two months free. There is also a free, seven-day trial with no obligations to subscribe. BritBox says that its output […]
Indian content distribution platform Tata Sky is delivering OTT aggregation with the introduction of Tata Sky Binge. Content discovery and viewer analytics solution provider ThinkAnalytics’ Think360 cloud-based personalised content discovery and viewer engagement platform is now live on Tata Sky’s Binge Fire TV Stick service and Binge mobile app. Binge subscribers now benefit from personalised […]
As of June 2021, there are 16.7 million VoD-enabled households in Great Britain, as 57 per cent are subscribed to at least one service, while figures for those taking on new subscriptions take a fall compared to last year, according to findings from insights and consulting company Kantar. Continuing on
A study by Uswitch analysed how much time Brits are spending in front of a screen and what effects this can have on wellbeing. Brits have been in front of a screen now more than ever, whether it’s as a form of entertainment or simply the work from home lifestyle many are now used to. […]