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 […]

Spanish TV broadcasters saw their ad revenues fall by 9.5 per cent in the first quarter of the year to €392.4 million, according to the latest data from CNMC. The pandemic and subsequent lockdown drove FTA private TV broadcasters to lose €40 million in ad revenues, €348.7 million versus €388.4 million in the same period […]

Research from Roy Morgan shows over 13.1 million Australians (62.4 per cent) said TV was a main source of news during the June quarter 2020, up from 12.6 million (60.0 per cent) during the March quarter. TV emerged as the favoured news source during the period of lockdown for more Australians than any other as […]

Streaming data from UK OTT service NOW TV reveal Brits are turning to apocalyptic and dystopian movies for comfort in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, with the likes of After Earth, Minority Report and The World’s End seeing a significant surge in viewing during lockdown. Viewing data analysed over the lockdown period showed streams […]

According to a report from cloud video platform Grabyo, UK video customers have increased monthly spending on online streaming services by over £100 million, which equates to an uplift of over 25 per cent, since lockdown began in March in the UK. Grabyo’s UK At Home Video Trends 2020 report surveyed over 2,000 UK consumers […]

Public Health England was the UK’s biggest spender in traditional advertising during the lockdown period, reveals Nielsen AdIntel data. Unilever takes second place, spending £29.4 million (€32.5m), followed by Procter & Gamble at £27.7 million. Overall, the UK’s lockdown period saw a huge drop in advertising, as lifestyle restrictions and budget concerns led to a […]

During the Covid-19 pandemic, in-home device usage has surged in the US as millions of Americans complied with stay-at-home orders. Continued research from Comscore shows that, while the gap is beginning to shrink, average 2020 in-home data usage levels remain higher than 2019 levels. Year-over-year in-home data consumption across devices, although down slightly from a […]

Millions of households across Africa, Europe, and Asia-Pacific will be able to access a free-to-air TV channel via SES satellites dedicated to delivering informative content about Covid-19. The channel, titled Fight COVID-19, broadcasts content that is aimed at providing underserved and rural communities with critical information about how to limit the spread of the virus. […]

According to data from digital TV integrated software solutions provider Mirada, there has been an unprecedented rise in worldwide TV content consumption since the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown. Mirada’s findings, from its LogIQ data analytics platform, compare consumption across its customers’ pay-TV services before and during the coronavirus crisis in the territories in which […]