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Report: Olympics drives US streaming records in July

Streaming made TV history for a second consecutive month in the US in July 2024 as it notched the most dominant performance by a single viewing category ever in Nielsen’s The Gauge report, accounting for 41.4 per cent of TV viewing. Streaming levels were over 5 per cent higher in July compared to June, leading […]

August 21, 2024

LiveU reports Olympic Games Paris success

LiveU has reported the most successful deployment in its history at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. With over 1,000 LiveU portable units in action, serving broadcasters from 62 countries, and delivering more than 70,000 hours of live broadcasts, the event has set new benchmarks for the use of LiveU for global news and sports […]

August 20, 2024

Research: Olympic moments offer gold for advertisers

Paris 2024 Olympics insights from Yospace, the dynamic ad insertion company – and gathered from ad-funded broadcaster customers across four continents – show that it stitched 4 billion one-to-one addressable ads during the event’s 19 days. The findings reveal surges in viewership for key moments that drove long streaming sessions as viewers were drawn in […]

August 15, 2024

Second week for Saving Bikini Bottom at Netflix #1

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie remained at #1 on Netflix’s English Films List for a second week, with the film, produced by Nickelodeon Animation, racking up 13.4 million views in the week commencing August 5th. The adaptation of Holly Jackson’s best-selling series, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, starring Wednesday’s Emma Myers, solved […]

August 14, 2024

Over 215m Europeans viewed Olympics on WBD platforms

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has reported record viewership and engagement across all platforms – spanning free-to-air, pay-TV, streaming, web and social – during  the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which came to an end with the Closing Ceremony on August 11th. Fueled by the recent launch of Max in 25 European markets, Paris 2024 saw […]

August 13, 2024

InterDigital trials HDR and immersive audio at Paris Games

During the Paris Games, Advanced HDR by Technicolor, Fraunhofer IIS and Globo showcased high dynamic range (HDR) and MPEG-H Audio content that is compliant with Brazil’s TV 2.5 standard on Hisense TVs. The demonstration represents another milestone in the transition from standard to high dynamic range by demonstrating how standard dynamic range (SDR) content can […]

August 13, 2024

Paris Olympics set BBC streaming record

BBC Sport’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was streamed a record-breaking 218 million times online, more than doubling the Tokyo Olympic Games total of 104 million, with 12.2 million people signed in to BBC iPlayer accounts to watch coverage. In addition to the coverage available on iPlayer and the BBC Sport website, BBC […]

August 12, 2024

Data: Ad-supported streaming booms in Q2

Kantar, the marketing data and analytics company, has released its latest Entertainment on Demand (EoD) data and analysis on the global video streaming landscape. Kantar’s EoD study uncovers the following behaviours within the global VoD market between April to June 2024: Ad-supported streaming saw significant growth in Q2 2024, with AVoD increasing by 10 per […]

August 6, 2024

Data: Best Olympics and Paralympics ads

System1, the Creative Effectiveness Platform, has revealed which Paris Olympics & Paralympics ads are at the top of the brand-building podium, based on consumers’ emotional responses. System1’s Test Your Ad platform assigns creative a score of 1.0 to 5.9 Stars based on long-term brand-building potential, with dynamic emotional stories and feelings of happiness driving the strongest results. […]

August 6, 2024

IOC President hails Olympics broadcast operations

During a tour of the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) in Paris, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach viewed the extensive operations that take place behind the scenes and thanked those responsible for sharing the Olympic action with a global audience. At a press conference ahead of the IBC visit, BACH said: “The Olympic Games […]

August 5, 2024