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Data: Linear TV consumption continues to decline globally

Data drawn from Kantar Media’s annual international TGI Global Quick View report, covering 37 countries and more than 80,000 respondents (from 2021 to 2025), reveals that the proportion of adults globally who say that nearly all of their TV/video watching is through TV channels has fallen from 12 per cent in 2021 to 7 per […]

February 18, 2025

Disney+ reveals cast for Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes

Disney+ has announced the cast for Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, the four-part UK Original drama written and executive produced by Jeff Pope (Philomena, Stan and Ollie). The series is produced by Etta Pictures, Pope’s production label, which is part of ITV Studios, in association with Kwadjo Dajan’s KDJ Productions. Jean Charles […]

February 18, 2025

India: JioCinema, Disney+ Hotstar merge

JioStar, the recently formed JV with the merger of Viacom18 and Star India, has announced the launch of JioHotstar, bringing together JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar – two of India’s leading streaming platforms. This coming together of brands creates a platform with close to 300,000 hours of entertainment, a wide array of live sports, and more […]

February 14, 2025

O’Dessa to stream on Disney+ in March

Disney+ has announced that Searchlight Pictures’ O’Dessa, written and directed by Geremy Jasper, will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland on March 13th. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, O’Dessa is an original rock opera about a farm girl on an epic quest to recover a cherished family heirloom. Her journey […]

February 14, 2025

FX’s Dying for Sex on Disney+ this April

Disney+ has announced that FX’s Dying for Sex, a new limited series starring Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate amongst an ensemble cast, will premiere on April 4th exclusively on Disney+ in the UK.  All eight episodes will be available at premiere. Dying for Sex is inspired by the story of Molly Kochan, originally shared on a Wondery podcast created with […]

February 14, 2025

Data: Bluey tops YouTube and streaming in US

Australian animated hit Bluey was the most widely watched pre-school title on YouTube in the US in 2024, according to research from Digital i. Data shows that content from the official Bluey YouTube channel was watched by 24 per cent of US accounts in households where 0-5 year olds are present between December 1st 2023 […]

February 13, 2025

ANGA COM 2025 reveals first speakers and conference topics

This year, Hendrik Wüst, Premier of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, will open ANGA COM with a keynote. In the broadband sector, the confirmed speakers include the CEOs of leading network operators such as Vodafone, SES, Deutsche Glasfaser, Tele Columbus, Unsere Grüne Glasfaser, OXG Glasfaser, Deutsche GigaNetz, M-net, NetCologne, wilhelm.tel, willy.tel, 1&1 Versatel, RFT, Eurofiber, […]

February 13, 2025

Disney goes ‘unwoke’

Disney has scrapped diversity and inclusion as a metric in setting executive pay. The company told staff  it was updating “how our values are embedded in our leader compensation programmes”. A new metric of ‘talent strategy’, was added to its executive pay scheme, though it said “important concepts” from the old plan would remain in […]

February 12, 2025

Disney Q1 revenue up 5%; Disney+ subs dip

The Walt Disney Company has reported revenues increased 5 per cent year-on-year in Q1 to $24.7 billion (€23.7bn). Operating income rose 31 per cent from a year earlier to $5.1 billion. The company reported 178 million combined Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions, an increase of 0.9 million vs Q4 fiscal 2024. However, Disney+ subscribers were at […]

February 5, 2025

InterDigital enforces patents against Disney

InterDigital, the mobile, video and AI technology research and development company, has initiated litigation against The Walt Disney Company, including Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, claiming an ongoing infringement of InterDigital’s intellectual property. “Our video technologies enable Disney to efficiently stream content and enhance the user experience,” said Josh Schmidt, Chief Legal Officer, InterDigital. “We always […]

February 3, 2025