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BritBox International hires DAZN’s Hird

BritBox International has named Sarah Hird as Senior Vice President, Corporate & Consumer Communications. Reporting directly to Reemah Sakaan, CEO of BritBox International, Hird will lead BritBox International’s team of in-house and agency partners across all global regions. Hird joins BritBox International from DAZN Group, where she was Vice President, Global Communications, leading consumer, corporate, […]

September 21, 2022

Report: OTT a third of TV subscriptions in Nordics

In the Nordics, the pay-TV landscape has changed considerably since the introduction of OTT services, reports Dataxis. The region was a testbed for some of the most popular streaming services when they first addressed the European market, with Netflix and HBO available there since 2012 already. Ten years later, it’s easy to see how the […]

September 7, 2022

BritBox readies Nordics launch

BritBox International, the BBC & ITV joint venture, will launch in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland on April 28th, offering thousands of hours of British content. The streaming service’s Nordic debut will extend Britbox into eight countries internationally, following successful launches in the US, Canada, Australia, and South Africa that join BritBox in the UK. […]

April 21, 2022

Mammoth Screen appoints McMillon as MD

Mammoth Screen, the ITV Studios indie behind critically-acclaimed shows including The Serpent, World On Fire and Endeavour has announced that Samantha McMillon is joining as Managing Director. McMillon will join from ITV Studios where she is currently Commercial Director for its in-house UK drama labels and will have a role across the development and production […]

March 24, 2022

BritBox UK launches on Virgin TV

BritBox UK and Virgin Media O2 have announced that Virgin TV customers can now access the BritBox app directly through their latest set top boxes. Virgin TV homes will now be able to access the best of British entertainment including the likes of Broadchurch, Downton Abbey, Vera, Only Fools and Horses and Love Island. BritBox […]

March 17, 2022

BritBox MD stepping down

Will Harrison, Managing Director at BritBox UK, is set to depart the streaming service as ITV prepares to roll out ITVX. Harrison, who has been in the role since BritBox launched in 2019, will not be replaced, with the news coming a week after major shareholder ITV said it will be folding BritBox into new […]

March 11, 2022

Research: Brits spend £300 a year on subscription services

With the average Brit spending 3 hours and 37 minutes online every day, and an average of 1 hour 21 minutes a day watching online services such as Netflix, research by comparethemarket reveals UK households spend nearly £300 (€360.56) every year on online subscriptions. One in 12 people spend more on subscriptions each month than […]

March 8, 2022

Hugh Laurie’s Agatha Christie adaptation on BritBox

BritBox UK has announced that Hugh Laurie’s three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, will launch exclusively on the streaming service this spring. The series is commissioned by BritBox North America and produced by Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited. The cast features Will Poulter (The Revenant, Detroit, Dopesick) as […]

February 8, 2022

Study: Prime Video gaining fast on Netflix in UK

Insights and consulting company Kantar’s Entertainment on Demand study uncovers the following behaviours within the UK VoD market over the 3 months to December 2021: Between September and December 2021, the number of VoD-enabled households that subscribed to at least one video streaming service in Great Britain grew to 17.1million, up almost 400k, quarter on […]

January 25, 2022

BritBox expands into Nordics with C More

BritBox International, the streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV, will soon be available in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway through a distribution partnership with C More. The partnership marks the first strategic distribution deal for BritBox in the Nordics, and means Britbox will be available in a total of eight countries. From early 2022, […]

December 14, 2021