Virgin Mobile is giving all customers using one of their smartphones access to unlimited data. All customers in Ireland who have a data limit on their plan will now become unlimited and all those on unlimited plans will have the 80GB Fair Usage Policy removed. In 2020, Virgin Mobile customers relied on their smartphone plans […]
There was a significant drop in the correlation between how the younger and older generations spent their time with commercial media during lockdown 2020, highlighting the need to deploy diverse media plans, according to the findings a new TouchPoints report from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). The report, Making sense. The commercial media […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT), the pan-Nordic media and entertainment company, has reported its full year results for 2020. Streaming service Viaplay saw subscribers up 207,000 quarter-on-quarter and up 33 per cent (749,000) year-on-year to 3,020,000. The company expects an addition of 650,000 new Viaplay subscribers in 2021 as it prepares to launch in new international […]
Amino Technologies, the software-led global media technology company, has reported its 2020 results. Amino says it saw a strong financial performance, demonstrating that its software-led strategy is delivering results, with all key metrics tracking ahead of the prior year. Highlights include: Amino maintained guidance through the pandemic, and is now achieving pre-Covid market expectations. All […]
Viasat of California, which already operates broadband-by-satellite services to businesses and consumers around the world, reported a 4.2 per cent drop in revenues (but Q3’s net income grew 4 per cent) but managed to boost its EBITDA by an impressive 17.5 per cent. The company told shareholders and analysts that its massive new Viasat 3 […]
A TV shopping channel is giving SMEs a potential ‘financial lifeline’ by offering businesses a way of advertising its products on Sky TV for as little as £10 per day during the current UK lockdown. TV Warehouse, founded in 2012, which is also available on Freeview, has an advertising reach of 23 million households and […]
In reporting its results for the nine months to December 31st 2020, multiplay telco BT has claimed progress in its fibre and 5G deployment. Its digital infrastructure subsidiary Openreach’s FTTP network now reaches 4.1 million premises, built at an average run rate of 42k premises passed per week in the quarter, and remains on track […]
Official figures published by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit reveal strong signs of economic recovery in UK film and high-end TV (HETV) production following months of suspended filming in the wake of the pandemic. The final three months have recorded a £1.19 billion spend in the final quarter of 2020, the second highest spend […]
Strong demand for home computers, tablets and games consoles helped consumer electronics trade revenues reach $358.5 billion (€299bn) in 2020, an increase of 7 per cent over 2019, according to the research from Strategy Analytics. According to the report, Global Consumer Electronics Market Forecasts 2014-2024, shipments of home computers and tablets rose 11 per cent […]
Italy’s free-to-air satellite platform Tivùsat, which broadcasts 180 TV and radio channels (including 57 in HD and 7 in 4K), has surpassed 6 million viewers. From December 2019 to December 2020, Tivùsat registered 40 per cent audience growth, compared to an overall growth of the TV audience in Italy of 11.3 per cent, according to […]