Forecasts from Ampere Analysis predict that spending by SVoD platforms will reach €10 billion in Europe’s major TV markets in 2024. This surpasses the investment made by the region’s commercial broadcasters in original and acquired content who face major challenges of strong competition from deep-pocketed streamers, increased pressure on their own content budgets, and falling […]
A report from Ampere Analysis shows strong growth opportunities for Japanese Anime in Europe, driven by Netflix’s Anime productions, and Crunchyroll’s dominance in the West. The research suggests a new wave of popularity for the format is underway in the region. According to Ampere’s proprietary consumer survey of 30 countries, Asia Pacific markets such as […]
Warner Bros Discovery’s (WBD) Max, streaming service is now officially live in 20 countries across the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe. The countries include Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Max offers subscribers an […]
ANGA COM, the European Exhibition and Conference for Broadband, Television & Online, ended on May 16th with over 480 exhibitors and a visitor record of more than 23,000 participants. The exhibitors came from 35 countries and the visitors travelled to Cologne from more than 80 nations. More than 3,000 persons took part in the conference […]
Kantar Media, the specialist in audience measurement and data, has appointed Lucy Bristowe as CEO, UK & Western Europe. She will take up the post in June, reporting to Patrick Béhar, Global CEO. Bristowe succeeds Louise Ainsworth, who recently announced she would be stepping down after six years at the helm. Bristowe joins Kantar Media […]
Zayo Group, a provider of network infrastructure, has announced steps to carve out two independent entities. One will consist of Zayo’s European business and the other will encompass its business that manages customers’ global network needs outside of Zayo’s core North American and European networks. Zayo says the separations will provide flexibility to capitalise on […]
Comcast Advertising and FreeWheel have released a report titled, Content Discovery in a Multiscreen TV World: Surfing and Scrolling in a Sea of Content. This global report analyses trends of how consumers navigate and discover TV content across traditional and streaming in the US and five European countries (UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy). The […]
United Group (UG), the multi-play telecommunications and media company in Southeastern Europe, has achieved record financial results for the financial year 2023. The group delivered 7 per cent growth in both revenues and EBITDAal to €2.79 billion and €988 million respectively. Adjusting for the impact of the sale of the group’s tower portfolio in August […]
Zayo Group, a provider of fibre network infrastructure, has announced a new Waves on Demand service to deliver access to bandwidth across its 400G fully enabled lit-fibre network in Europe. This allows customers to turn up services across Europe within just five working days, significantly reducing service delivery intervals from the industry standard of 30+ […]
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced that Max, its SVoD service, will launch in the first European countries in May. Max brings together HBO Max’s programming, Discovery’s real-life entertainment and action from Eurosport’s premium subscription service. On May 21st, Max will become available across the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Launches will follow […]