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Survey: 33% Brits use streaming to combat loneliness

Research by Uswitch, the comparison and switching service, has uncovered that a third (33 per cent) of people said streaming online TV helped them to feel less lonely over the past year, with 43 per cent saying they’ve binged an entire series in a single day. A quarter (26 per cent) said they now exclusively […]

February 23, 2021

Amazon orders All or Nothing: Juventus

Amazon Prime Video and Juventus Football Club have announced a new Italian Amazon Original exclusive behind-the-scenes docu-series, All or Nothing: Juventus, following the team through the current 2020/21 season. The new series will launch exclusively on Prime Video later this year in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. All or Nothing: Juventus will take […]

February 23, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Reps pressure cable over Fox News

California Democrat Representatives Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney have written to cable, satellite and streaming companies calling on them to better combat disinformation – and they name Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network as culprits. Both signatories are both on the powerful House Energy & Commerce Committee. The letter doesn’t call for the […]

February 22, 2021

hayu launches in 11 additional European countries

hayu, the all-reality, SVoD service from NBCUniversal International, has launched in 11 additional European countries. The multi-territory roll-out comes just as the streaming service prepares to mark its fifth anniversary, having first launched in the UK, Ireland and Australia in March 2016. Launching direct-to-consumer (DTC) on a full array of devices – mobile, tablet, TV […]

February 18, 2021

Report: 80% of Roku & 62% Fire TV apps have app-ads.txt

Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform, has released its first Connected TV App-Ads.txt Reports for Roku Apps and Amazon Fire TV Apps, reviewing app-ads.txt adoption trends in 2020. The reports analyse the state of app-ads.txt adoption among Connected TV (CTV) apps in the Roku and Amazon Fire TV Channel Stores (Roku […]

February 18, 2021

Fourth season of 3D Sparrow’s Booba in production

UK Studio 3D Sparrow starts production of the fourth season of its popular non-dialogue animation Booba. This follows the successful launch of Booba season three, through a string of international broadcast deals, from Turkey and Chile to Latin America, Croatia and Poland as well as airing worldwide on Netflix. Additionally, 3D Sparrow announces a new […]

February 18, 2021

Report: Nordic SVoD should target 60+ audience

The potential for further SVoD growth in the Nordics is among TV viewers aged 60+, according to Mediavision’s analysis. After yet another year of strong growth in 2020, the question in the Nordics is: how to keep momentum in 2021, with fewer households left to convert? Players must broaden their perspective – likely towards the […]

February 17, 2021

Report: Facebook, YouTube have 49% of video ad revenue

Global online video advertising revenue will grow from $70 billion (€57.7bn) in 2020 to $120 billion by the end of 2024 according to Omdia’s latest Global Online Video Advertising report. Driven by the post-Covid-19 online video

February 16, 2021

VIS to produce Historias para no Dormir for Amazon and RTVE

VIS, a division of ViacomCBS Networks International, has announced Historias Para No Dormir (Stories To Stay Awake), its new production for Amazon Prime Video and RTVE, commissioned to production company Prointel e Isla Audiovisual, which reboots the iconic horror series by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador. The 4 episodes-series will be directed by Rodrigo Cortés, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, […]

February 16, 2021

Report: Satellite broadband capacity to grow 10x by year-end

A report from investment bank Exane/BNPP says that today’s various satellite operators are supplying some 2,000 Gb/s of capacity (as at December 31st 2020 and using Northern Sky Research data). The bank suggests that this will grow ten-fold by the end of this year, and 30-fold before the end of this decade. This growth includes

February 12, 2021By Chris Forrester