ITV has announced that Alex Pumfrey is to join the company as Director of Strategic Partnerships to shape and deliver ITV’s partnership strategy. Reporting to Martin Goswami, Group Strategic Partnerships and Distribution Director, Pumfrey will develop ITV’s relationships across national media players (such as BBC, BT, Sky and Virgin Media) and international tech players (such […]
ITV has reported total external revenue was up 8 per cent at £3.72 billion (€4.17bn) in 2022, and total group revenue up 7 per cent at £4.34 billion. Total ITV Studios revenue were up 19 per cent at £2.09 billion with growth across the business. Media & Entertainment (M&E) revenue was down 1 per cent at […]
Sixteen Indian Premier League (IPL) are set to broadcast free-to-air in the UK, with ITV signing a deal with OTT broadcaster DAZN. According to a reports, the two broadcasters have partnered to take the current IPL rights away from Sky Sports on a five-year deal. ITV will air 16 of the regular season games, with […]
ITV is adding architectural tech company Resi to its Media for Equity portfolio in its first investment of 2023. As part of ITV Adventures Invest, its Media for Equity investment fund, ITV has agreed to invest up to £3 million of advertising inventory across ITV’s channels and ITVX in return for a minority equity stake […]
ITV has announced a partnership with StudioCanal to carry its StudioCanal Presents service, which will bolster ITVX Premium, the streamer’s subscription tier, giving ITVX subscribers access to hundreds of titles from StudioCanal’s catalogue. Scheduled to launch on ITVX Premium this spring, the deal will see over 400 films added to the subscription tier of the […]
ITVX is now available on Sky Q. The AVoD service was previously only available on Sky Glass and Sky Stream. ITVX live streams are now also available on Sky Q allowing viewers to access ITV’s main channels plus a selection of streaming-only services. ITVX is the new streaming service from ITV, launching in December 2022. […]
BritBox International, the British streaming platform, has reached a milestone of three million total subscribers across the eight international markets in which its streaming service is available – the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. This represents over 15 per cent subscriber growth during the past year across all of the […]
Creative company Saatchi & Saatchi has announced ITV as its founding partner for Upriser, the free creative schools platform that it launched at the end of 2022. ITV is the first major name to be announced, with a number of other partners currently being matched and onboarded at schools across the UK as part of […]
ITV’s Head of Drama Polly Hill has commissioned a six-part mystery drama, After the Flood, produced by multi award winning Manchester based executive producer Nicola Shindler and her team at Quay Street Productions in association with ITV Studios. The drama is written by BAFTA nominated writer and actor Mick Ford who is known for his […]
ITV and S4C are the latest UK broadcasters to sign up to the TV Coalition for Change (CFC), the body seeking to improve working conditions for freelancers in the UK TV industry. They join some of the biggest names in UK broadcasting including Channel 4, BBC, Sky, UKTV, Channel 5 and Prime Video amon others. […]