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Netflix UK pays £3.2m 2019 tax

Netflix paid £3.2 million (€4.1m) in UK corporation tax in 2019. It billed an estimated £940 million (according to Ampere Analysis) to British subscribers in the period. It reported £120 million of revenue and pre-tax profit of £13 million on its operations here; the Netflix services for Europe and production. Subscriber fees from its 11 […]

January 22, 2021

Data: Amazon half of new UK SVoD sign-ups in Q4

Kantar, the data, insights and consulting company has published Q4 2020 results from its Entertainment On Demand service in the UK. With 12.9 million subscriptions taken out last year, the service reveals the following consumer behaviours in the three months to December 2020: Amazon Prime membership jumped again in Q4, with 53.5 per cent of […]

January 21, 2021

Netflix: “Still room for growth”

Netflix’s 200+ million subscribers, and with seemingly no worries over its future financing, delivered a strong message to both its pay-TV rivals as well as Europe’s important broadcasters. Netflix, in reporting its Q4 results said its net paid subs addition (8.5 million vs 6 million guidance) was impressive. Total paid streaming subscribers crossed 200 million […]

January 21, 2021

Netflix UK orders Heartstopper; renews Bridgerton

Netflix UK has commissioned Heartstopper, a new 8-part live action series from See-Saw Films. Heartstopper started out as a web-comic in 2016, and has also been released as a series on graphic novels. The story follows Charlie Spring from the moment he meets Nick Nelson, and how they eventually fall in love. In a blog […]

January 21, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Netflix tops 200m subs

Describing 2020 as “an incredibly difficult year with extraordinary loss for so many families,” Netflix’s Q4 results show that with 8.5 million paid net additions in the quarter, it crossed the 200 million ‘paid memberships’ mark for the first time. “For the full year, we added a record 37 million paid memberships, achieved $25 billion […]

January 20, 2021

Analyst: Nordic media driven by subscriptions

Mediavision’s analysis of the Nordic media market shows that subscriptions now account for the majority of each household’s spend on both media and access (i.e. mobile and broadband). An average Nordic household spends €150 per month on media and access. The split between media and access is slightly in favour of mobile and broadband compared […]

January 20, 2021

Study: Nick Jr has most educational content

A study by UK broadband comparison site Cable.co.uk has uncovered the TV channels and services with the most educational content as a guide for parents attempting to home school children during lockdown. For the study, the team looked at the most popular children’s TV channels in the UK across the span of two weeks (Monday […]

January 19, 2021

Research: Lockdown drives Oz TV subs

New data from research firm Roy Morgan shows Australians consumed subscription TV services at an astonishing rate during 2020 as the country endured a nationwide lockdown from late March until late May and Victorians experienced a second, and longer, lockdown soon after. Some 17.3 million Australians (82.1 per cent) watched a subscription TV service in […]

January 19, 2021

Research: 7m SVoD subs in Indonesia

Media Partners Asia (MPA) has announced that total cumulative paying customers to SVoD services across the top 10 operators in Indonesia had reached approximately 7 million as of mid-January 2021, a net addition of 3.6 million new subscribers between September 5th 2020 to January 6th 2021. The research, published by MPA’s consumer insights division AMPD […]

January 19, 2021

Forecast: SVoD growth will fall back to 2015 level

SVoDs will have much slower growth in 2021 after the record-breaking 2020, according to Omdia. While global OTT TV subscriptions rose from 849 million in 2019 to 1.06 billion last year – overtaking global pay-TV numbers – growth is likely to be relatively slower this year, with the overall number rising to 1.14 billion. Traditional […]

January 18, 2021