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BARB: 60% UK homes have SVoD subscription

BARB, the UK television audience measurement currency, has released data from its Establishment Survey for Q3 2020. The data shows that SVoD services continue to reach more UK households. Overall, the number of UK households with an SVoD subscription is now 17 million, up more than 3 million households since Q3 2019. This means that […]

November 17, 2020

Dolby Labs warns future outlook “remains unclear”

San Francisco-based Dolby Laboratories has delivered its Q4 numbers and admitted that the Covid-19 virus had impacted its revenues in the financial year to September 25th. For Q4, Dolby reported total revenue of $271.2 million (€228.9m), compared to $298.8 million for same period in 2019. For fiscal 2020, Dolby reported total revenue of $1.16 billion, […]

November 16, 2020By Chris Forrester

ITV Q3 revenues hit by pandemic

ITV, the UK commercial broadcaster, has published its Q3 trading update for the 9 months to September 30th. Total external revenue was down 16 per cent at £1.86 billion (€2.08bn). Total ITV Studios revenue was down 19 per cent at £902 million. Broadcast revenue was down 13 per cent at £1.27 billion with ITV total […]

November 12, 2020

Italy sees highest TV audience in 5 years

Italy registered the highest TV audience ratings in the past five years in October 2020, a trend that continued into the first week of November. Data published by Studio Frasi shows that the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has once again increased TV consumption throughout the country. In the week November 1st to 7th, […]

November 12, 2020From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Mediaset forecasts 2020 profit despite pandemic

Mediaset has reported a net profit of €29.4 million for the third quarter of 2020 and of €10.5 million for the first nine months. According to the broadcaster, the positive performance was due to prompt action on costs, growth in TV ratings and strong revenues generated by the advertising companies. For the 9 month period, […]

November 11, 2020From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Satellite, cinema operators boosted by vaccine news

Europe’s two big names in satellite communications saw large uplifts to their share prices thanks to the news about a probable Covid-19 vaccine. Eutelsat rose a significant 9.56 per cent on November 10th (and at one point hit €9.70). SES rose 3.9 per cent to €7.99 (and at one point touched €8.12) per share. The […]

November 11, 2020By Chris Forrester

BT to move into Bristol hub in 2022

BT Group has revealed that it plans to move into its new office in the centre of Bristol in early 2022. Bristol has been announced as one of BT’s key locations in the UK, with the new office acting as a hub for more than 2,000 colleagues in the city and wider region. Construction of […]

November 9, 2020

Lockdown 2: TV production & elite sport can continue

The UK government announced over the weekend that England will go into a ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown for at least four weeks starting November 4th. However, Premier League football and other elite sports have been granted permission to continue during the lockdown due to the testing measures in place. Amateur sports will be put on hold. As […]

November 2, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Forecast: Video entertainment adspend to stabilise

Zenith forecasts video entertainment advertising will shrink by just 0.2 per cent in 2020 across ten key markets this year, according to its Business Intelligence – Video Entertainment report. Video entertainment adspend will far outperform the ad market

November 2, 2020

Apple record quarter despite iPhone dip

Apple has posted record September quarter revenue of $64.7 billion (€55,4bn) and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $0.73. International sales accounted for 59 per cent of the quarter’s revenue. This despite customers put off buying new devices in the second half of September, leading the company to report its steepest quarterly drop in iPhone […]

October 30, 2020