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BritBox to launch on Amazon Prime Video channels

BritBox UK and Amazon Prime Video have announced that BritBox will join Prime Video Channels and be available to Prime members in the UK with an add-on subscription in spring 2021. Prime Video Channels allows Prime members to add-on channel subscriptions through Prime Video for a monthly fee, available individually without the need to sign […]

March 8, 2021

BBC Select launches in US, Canada

As anticipated by advanced-television.com in December 2020, the BBC has launched BBC Select, a new streaming service, in North America. The service joins BBC’s international channels portfolio in the US that already includes BBC Brit, BBC Earth and BBC First, as well as the BritBox joint venture with ITV. BBC Select is available immediately via […]

February 19, 2021

2021 launch for BritBox South Africa

BBC Studios and ITV have revealed that their SVoD joint venture BritBox is to launch in South Africa in the second half of 2021. The service will expand into its fifth worldwide territory, following successful launches in the US & Canada, the UK and, most recently, Australia. In 2020, BritBox announced a global roll out […]

February 16, 2021By Colin Mann

BBC reveals financial transformation results

The BBC has set out how it has transformed its finances over the past decade to ensure it continues to deliver exceptional value for all audiences. The Corporation has faced an effective real-terms reduction in income of around 30 per cent since 2010/11 as a result of increased funding obligations, such as the World Service […]

February 3, 2021By Colin Mann

Data: Amazon half of new UK SVoD sign-ups in Q4

Kantar, the data, insights and consulting company has published Q4 2020 results from its Entertainment On Demand service in the UK. With 12.9 million subscriptions taken out last year, the service reveals the following consumer behaviours in the three months to December 2020: Amazon Prime membership jumped again in Q4, with 53.5 per cent of […]

January 21, 2021

NewsPlayer+ goes live in UK

NewsPlayer+ has launched in the UK, just in time to give viewers an opportunity to watch global perspectives on the US Presidential Inauguration across 15 channels via its new one-stop streaming destination. NewsPlayer+ brings a range of premium English-language news brands together, live and around the clock, offering seamless navigation across diverse international perspectives. UK […]

January 19, 2021

Data: iPlayer searches outnumber Netflix

BroadbandDeals has analysed monthly average search volume data from SEMRush, to reveal which video streaming service is the most popular in the UK. BBC iPlayer is the UK’s most popular streaming service when it comes to the data, with 5,100,000 monthly average searches. In second place is Netflix, with 5,000,000 monthly average searches. Disney+ comes […]

January 12, 2021

Analyst: “Bundling is next step in streaming evolution”

Bundling will characterise global TV throughout 2021 as the streaming TV boom forces a re-engineering of the TV value chain and the strategies for reaching the end viewer, according to Guy Bisson, Research Director at Ampere Analysis. The breadth of choice in the streaming

January 7, 2021

Dad’s Army most-streamed Xmas BritBox show

After closely watching subscriber habits from Christmas Eve through to Boxing Day, BritBox, the SVoD service from the BBC and ITV, has revealed that the most-streamed content over the Christmas period was the classic comedy Dad’s Army, which was added to the platform on December 24th. In its first three days, subscribers streamed the 78-episode […]

December 31, 2020By Colin Mann

BBC Studios to launch BBC SELECT

With BritBox, its joint venture SVoD service with ITV successfully established as a source of drama and entertainment for North American viewers, BBC Studios, the Corporation’s commercial arm  – is set to launch a new, ad-free subscription streaming channel, BBC SELECT, in early 2021 on Amazon Prime Video Channels and the Apple TV app. BBC […]

December 17, 2020By Colin Mann