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Analyst: Nordics SVoD players look to sports and collabs

The Nordic video market, likely one of Europe’s most evolved, show clear signs of maturity according to Mediavision. The online video market is still growing, but penetration is increasing at a slower pace than just a year ago. Mediavision also sees a much stronger focus on pricing and packaging. There are, of course, many ways […]

October 7, 2020

Survey: Americans plan to stream more this Xmas

Roku has announced findings from its 2020 Holiday Consumer Shopping study in partnership with The Harris Poll, offering insights into the rapidly evolving US consumer shopping landscape as the country heads towards its first holiday season since the pandemic started. The findings of the survey of more than 2,000 US adults also offers a deep […]

October 7, 2020

Godzilla returns to Netflix in new anime series

Netflix has announced an all new Godzilla anime series titled Godzilla Singular Point, featuring a new cast and original story set to premiere globally on Netflix in 2021. Following the success of Godzilla anime movies (Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle and Godzilla: The Planet Eater) the new series […]

October 7, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Bank: Indian subs will pay more for Netflix

A report from investment bank Jefferies on Netflix says that 90 per cent of the streamer’s Indian subscribers would pay at least an extra $1.32 per month, and thus generating a future potential beneficial revenue tail wind for APAC revenue growth. Indeed, the Jeffries survey shows 35 per cent of India respondents would happily pay […]

October 5, 2020

Report: UK indie production revenues record high

The UK’s Independent TV production sector revenues reached a new record of £3.3 billion (€3.6bn) in 2019 – driven by international revenues breaking £1 billion for the first time – an increase of 11 per cent on 2018, and a rise of 30 per cent over the past five years. The Pact UK Production Census […]

October 2, 2020

The Boys & Mulan gatecrash Netflix’ Nielsen domination

Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings only debuted a month ago, but the top 10 most-watched shows in the US each week has been completely dominated by Netflix, until now… Nielsen has revealed its top 10 streaming programmes for the week of August 31st to September 6th features both Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys and Disney+ movie […]

October 2, 2020

Analyst: African SVoD subs to more than quadruple

Africa will have 12.96 million SVoD subscriptions by 2025, up from 2.75 million at end-2019, according to the Africa SVoD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. From the 10 million additions, South Africa will supply 3 million to take its total to 4.3 million and Nigeria will add 2.1 million to total 2.73 […]

October 1, 2020

Netflix orders Resident Evil anime series

Iconic video game franchise Resident Evil is being adapted into a Netflix original CG anime series. This series is scheduled for a global launch in 2021 exclusively on Netflix. In a press statement, Netflix said: “Three years after 2017’s CG film Resident Evil: Vendetta, technology has further evolved, creating the groundwork for a new series […]

September 29, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Analyst: SVoD to generate $100bn globally

SVoD revenues for 138 countries will reach $100 billion by 2025, double the $50 billion recorded in 2019, according to the SVoD Forecasts Update report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. SVoD revenues will exceed $1 billion in 16 countries by 2025; double from eight countries in 2019. The US will remain the

September 28, 2020

Report: Online video consumption soars in SE Asia

Total video streaming minutes on mobile grew 30 per cent Q/Q in Q1 2020 across four Southeast Asia markets and a further 19 per cent Q/Q in Q2 to reach 657 billion, according to a study published by Media Partners Asia (MPA). The report, entitled Southeast Asia Online Video Consumer Insights & Analytics: A Definitive […]

September 28, 2020