The shift from watching new movies in cinemas to streaming them at home has been one of the most significant changes in entertainment over the past few decades. The pandemic accelerated that shift, and although that has faded, many viewers have continued to trade cinema-going for watching the latest movies at home. Research platform MX8 […]
FreeWheel, a Comcast company and technology platform for the video advertising industry, has released the findings from a new study, CTV Barometer, carried out with GWI — the consumer insights tech company. The research shows that streaming TV is rapidly becoming a popular way to consume content, regardless of age. Across 630 million streamers in […]
Euromedia January/February 2025 The rise of streaming and demands on valuable spectrum means fundamental decisions need to be taken as to how TV is distributed in the future. Colin Mann discusses the implications with a range of industry players. Read the article and the rest of the issue here.
RealityMine, the owner of cross-device VoD capture technology, RealityMine Connect, has announced a partnership with OnDemandIQ in the Asia-Pacific region. This collaboration marks the launch of RealityMine Connect—an innovative solution designed to offer comprehensive, single-source, user-level insights into streaming consumption across all connected devices. Developed by RealityMine and first launched in 2023, RealityMine Connect has […]
Data drawn from Kantar Media’s annual international TGI Global Quick View report, covering 37 countries and more than 80,000 respondents (from 2021 to 2025), reveals that the proportion of adults globally who say that nearly all of their TV/video watching is through TV channels has fallen from 12 per cent in 2021 to 7 per […]
Magnite, the independent sell-side advertising company, has unveiled the results of its latest study, Why Streaming TV Is a Must-Buy, which highlights how UK audiences engage with streaming TV and the effectiveness of ads within premium content environments. The findings underscore the growing importance of streaming TV as a trusted and impactful advertising channel. Key […]
DVB has released a new set of guidelines to support the implementation of accessibility measures in DVB-I services. Published as DVB BlueBook A185, these guidelines set out the mechanisms for signalling accessibility services in DVB-I, enabling better support for features such as subtitles, audio description, and sign language interpretation. Future revisions of the document will […]
Roku, the streaming specialist has reported its full year 2024 results. Total net revenue stood at $4.1 billion (€3.9bn), up 18 per cent year over year (YoY) and platform revenue was $3.5 billion, up 18 per cent YoY and up 15 per cent YoY excluding political ad spend. Gross profit was $1.8 billion, up 19 […]
Online entertainment has become the norm. We do everything online, from working and paying bills to shopping, reading and learning. Why would entertainment be any different? Every aspect of the entertainment industry has shifted to the digital. We can still attend entertainment events in the real world, but increasingly, even live entertainment is offered online. […]
DE-CIX, the Internet Exchange (IX) operator, has revealed another record-breaking milestone in the amount of global data traffic being exchanged at its locations in 2024. More than 3,400 connected networks exchanged over 68 exabytes of data traffic at DE-CIX’s locations around the world, corresponding to an increase of around 15 per cent compared to the […]