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China: ABC Commercial signs content deal with UKIDS

ABC Commercial has announced a deal with China’s UYoung, securing the sale of Ready, Steady, Wiggle! Seasons 4–7, Wiggle & Learn and Big Words, Small Stories to UYoung’s UKIDS app, one of China’s most popular streaming platforms for children’s enlightenment education. UKIDS, will localise the titles to be made available across China. The deal strengthens […]

August 29, 2025

Cellular IoT connectivity revenues reached €14.2bn in 2024

A report from IoT market research firm Berg Insight reveals that global IoT connectivity revenues increased 12 per cent to reach €14.2 billion in 2024. The monthly ARPU dropped 5 per cent to €0.33. IoT connectivity revenues account for 1–4 per cent of service revenues for the largest mobile operator groups. By 2029, Berg Insight […]

July 29, 2025

The World Games streaming platform goes live

The International World Games Association (IWGA) has announced the launch of The World Games Live, a dedicated global streaming platform created to bring The World Games 2025 (TWG) in Chengdu, China, directly to fans worldwide. Developed in partnership the International Sports Broadcasting Company (ISB), TWG´s global host broadcaster, the platform will stream live action from […]

July 28, 2025

Research: Huawei tops China smartphone market in Q2

According to research from Canalys (now part of Omdia), the Mainland China smartphone market declined 4 per cent year-on-year in Q2 2025, as the boost from national subsidy programmes earlier in the year began to taper off. Huawei reclaimed top position with shipments of 12.2 million units, capturing an 18 per cent market share. vivo […]

July 28, 2025

Fremantle launching My Brilliant Friend: The Story of the Lost Child in China

Fremantle has announced a distribution deal in China, which will see the final season of the internationally acclaimed Italian-language drama series My Brilliant Friend: The Story of the Lost Child, launch on four of China’s leading streaming platforms iQIYI, Tencent Video, Youku and Bilibili. The deal, brokered by Fremantle International’s Asian distribution office based in Singapore, marks the first […]

July 28, 2025

La Liga, SFBT launch LALIGA Club in China

La Liga has formalised an agreement with SFBT (Spanish Football Blockchain Technology) to roll out technological project LALIGA Club in China for the new season. LALIGA Club community is a Web3-based Fan Engagement Platform, integrating both online and offline infrastructures to create a community-driven fan experience. This platform enables fans to connect, interact and grow […]

May 30, 2025

China helps IMAX to record Q1

Giant screen specialist IMAX enjoyed its highest-grossing Q1 ever at the global box office with $298 million (€262.5m) on the strength of a record-breaking Chinese New Year holiday, which delivered triple the company’s previous best with $182 million. The movie Ne Zha 2 has earned more than $164 million on IMAX screnes, the company’s highest-grossing […]

April 25, 2025By Chris Forrester

China’s Thousand Sails satellite plan at Phase 2

While the planet now has global low Earth orbiting coverage from Elon Musk’s Starlink, China is quietly getting on with its own rival scheme, in the shape of its Qianfan (Thousand Sails) satellite constellation project. Genesat (Gesi Aerospace), the project’s main contractor, has signed a contract for the second phase of its satellite manufacturing plant […]

April 1, 2025

Forecast: China mobile service revenue to increase at 2.5% CAGR

The total mobile services revenue in China is poised to increase from $139.2 billion (€127.7bn) in 2024 to $157.3 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.5 per cent, mainly driven by healthy growth in mobile data services segment, according to GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s research reveals that […]

March 19, 2025

Forecast: Multiplay service revenue in China to maintain steady CAGR

Multiplay service revenue in China is predicted to grow at a steady compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.2 per cent from $179.8 billion (€172.9bn) in 2024 to $190.4 billion in 2029. This growth is driven by increasing adoption of tripleplay and quadplay service bundles. As more households subscribe to multiplay services, operators, particularly China […]

February 28, 2025