The paid video market in France continued to grow in 2025, driven by SVoD platforms – while physical video kept declining. According to figures from by funding body CNC, the market has tripled to €2.9 billion compared to 2016 (€961 million), reaching an annual growth of 7.4 per cent. Some 86 per cent of the […]
This summer, as the world gathers to watch the FIFA World Cup 2026, fans can play a newly reimagined FIFA football simulation game exclusively on Netflix Games. FIFA’s previous publisher, Electronic Arts, stopped using the name in 2023 after 30 years following a significant rise in the FIFA licence fee – prompting it instead to rebrand […]
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance’s $108 billion+ takeover bid. Paramount had attempted to gatecrash Netflix’s acquisition of WBD with an offer of $30 a share, declaring that it was “superior” to the streaming giant’s $72 billion deal initially struck with WBD. “Following a careful […]
Canal+ has given itself the (seemingly wide) target of 50 to 100 million subscribers by 2030, as the MultiChoice acquisition which closed earlier this year alters its dimension and strategic priorities. Talking to Le Figaro before its The Originals+ content showcase on December 16th in Paris, Canal+ group CEO Maxime Saada said he considers the […]
Netflix has announced that its Documentary Talent Fund will return for another year in a continued effort to provide opportunities and support to under-represented filmmakers from across the UK and Ireland. Five filmmakers, and their teams will have the chance to make a short documentary film with a budget of £30,000 each. Entries will be […]
A director hired by Netflix to make a science-fiction series was convicted this week of an $11 million (€9.3m) fraud. Prosecutors said Carl Erik Rinsch, 48, secured funding from Netflix from 2018 to early 2020 to make the series, which was initially called White Horse and later renamed Conquest. But he put the money in […]
At the NEM Zagreb conference, María Rúa Aguete, Head of Media and Entertainment at Omdia, unveiled insights that signal a historic transformation in the US pay-TV market. According to Omdia’s latest forecasts, YouTube TV is on track to surpass Charter and Comcast to become the largest pay-TV operator in the US by 2027. Presenting on […]
The battle for control of Warner Bros is hotting up, but Pivotal Research Group, a New York-based equity investment house, has firmly downgraded its view on Netflix from ‘Buy’ to ‘Hold’. Analyst Jeff Wlodarczak summed up its position saying it is concerned that short-form content (from the likes of TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube and Snap) […]
Staff at Hub Entertainment Research have shared their 2026 predictions for the media and streaming industry. Hub is forecasting increased investment in niche sports, bigger TV/streaming bundles; a push from YouTube onto TV screens; Prime Video improving its content search; and Netflix making a gaming focus – and perhaps absorbing HBO. A boom in niche […]
November 2025 marked 15 years of the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly readout on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming. Starting in 2026, the streaming giant says it will continue publishing monthly performance data on the ISP Speed Index site, but these updates will shift to a […]