Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2025 first quarter ended December 28th 2024. The company posted quarterly revenue of $124.3 billion (€119.7bn), up 4 per cent year over year, slightly beating estimates. Mac and iPad revenue exceeded expectations, but iPhone sales dropped – being particularly affected by an 11.1 per cent decline in […]

Netflix has added a Season Download button for all iPhone and iPad users. This feature, which was already available on Android users, allows Netflix subscribers to download every episode in a season with just one tap.  “Whether you’re gearing up for a long flight and ready to dive into the new season of The Night […]

Comcast and Apple have revealed plans to offer all Xfinity customers in the US an integrated viewing experience for MLS Season Pass in time for the start of the 2025 season. Customers can sign up for MLS Season Pass directly through Xfinity and soon find every live match seamlessly incorporated throughout the X1 and Xfinity […]

Kantar, the marketing data and analytics company, has released its latest Entertainment on Demand (EoD) data on the British streaming market. The findings from Q4 2024 reveal a significant shift towards ad-supported streaming options, a surge in Prime subscriptions driven by seasonal shopping trends, and a compelling content catalogue from household staple Netflix. Kantar’s EoD […]

Apple will invest more in developing European and French content in France under a new deal with the French government. While in line with its previous spending in the country, the new agreement commits the Apple TV+ streaming service to investing 20 per cent of its previous year’s net sales in France into the initiative. […]

Major League Soccer (MLS) has announced its latest broadcast studio plans and evolution of MLS Productions, the media and broadcast production arm of the league. To advance its broadcast operation, MLS and IMG have agreed a multiyear partnership renewal that expands and builds upon their existing broadcast production relationship. IMG will continue to produce live […]

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched strategic market status (SMS) investigations in a second area of digital activity: mobile ecosystems. Two investigations – one into Apple and another into Google – will assess in parallel these firms’ position in their respective ‘mobile ecosystems’ which include the operating systems, app stores and browsers […]

Apple is suspending an AI feature that made inaccurate summaries of news headlines. It had received complaints from the BBC after the AI-generated service issued a news alert with the corporation’s logo falsely telling some iPhone users that Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, Brian Thompson, had shot himself. Other […]

beIN Sports has launched its new English-language podcast, Tales, Tears & Trophies – a six-part series of shows hosted by former Manchester United and Arsenal player Mikael Silvestre focusing on the highs and lows of life at the top end of the professional football pyramid. Promising unique content and exclusive insights, the fortnightly series kicks […]

Streaming services and the retail-led vinyl revival pushed UK music consumption and recorded music revenues in 2024 to a 20-year high and an all-time record, exceeding the pinnacle of the CD era, according to annual figures released by digital entertainment and retail association ERA. Consumption reached the equivalent of 201.4 million albums a year. Streaming […]