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Business

Goldman Sachs downgrades Netflix rating to ‘sell’

Shares in the streaming service dropped by 5 per cent following the announcement

Media Delivery

OTT revenues predicted to reach $224 billion by 2027

Around $21 billion in revenues is predicted to be added in 2022 alone

Media Delivery

Analysts lower Netflix growth forecast following tumultuous start to the year

Globally, SVoD subscriptions will increase by 485 million between 2021 and 2027 to reach 1.69 billion

Media Consumption

CTV overtakes linear as Europeans’ preferred entertainment platform

In the UK, 72 per cent of ShowHeroes' respondents said they prefer CTV to linear, while in Germany the figure is 81 per cent,...

Media Delivery

Analyst: Global pay-TV market set for highs and lows over next five years

Between 2021 and 2027, 86 countries are predicted to add pay-TV subs and 52 countries will lose subscribers

Media Delivery

Analysts: Western Europe pay-TV subs to drop to 100 million by 2027

Digital TV Research predicts IPTV will overtake satellite TV in 2026 to become the most lucrative platform

Business

Analysts: Broadcast equipment market worth $6.3 billion by 2027

While the industry suffered a dip during the pandemic, it saw a surge in demand in the second half of 2021

Media Consumption

Global SVoD subscriptions to reach 1.75 billion in 2027

Netflix, Disney Plus and Amazon Prime Video will account for half of total

Business

Discovery/BT Sport tie-up could be ‘first tangible threat to Sky’

Analyst Conrad Wiacek suggests the UK may become the first battle ground in the battle to become the dominant European sports broadcaster

Media Consumption

Sports fans are ready for the Winter Olympics

Matt Del Percio from Altman Solon takes a look at the results of a fan survey of five major Winter Games nations shows strong...

Business

Moving BBC to a subscription service ‘would undermine tenets of Public Service Broadcasting’

A new report from Enders Analysis looks at what impact a move to a subscription-based model could have on the BBC and TV viewing...

Business

What next for the BBC?

Following the news that the UK government is freezing the licence fee ahead of a possible move to a subscription-based model, TVBEurope looks at...

Media Delivery

Mediavision: HBO Max adds over 600K subscribers in the Nordics

"The demand for strong content has still not reached its peak in the Nordics," said MediaVision CEO Marie Nilsson

Business

Is Europe’s production boom reaching a tipping point?

In its latest report, Enders Analysis predicts the streaming services are likely to shift their priority away from growth to profitability, which could lead...

Media Delivery

Ampere: Disney surpasses 100 million SVoD subs in the US

Company's three SVoD services are continuing to attract subscribers

Business

Kagan: Global pay-TV households are still growing

The number of households subscribing to pay-TV operators continues to grow despite a predicted drop in penetration

Media Delivery

Analysts: Big five streamers to reach over 900 million subs by 2026

Analysts at Digital TV Research predict the five major US-based platforms will control 53 per cent of the world’s 1.7 billion SVoD subscriptions by...

Media Delivery

Report: 745 VoD services launched in UK, EU and US in four years

Report also found that the number of total AVoD users is significantly higher than SVoD users. In the UK and US

Media Consumption

Analysts: Pay-TV market fragments as it matures

The top 50 pay-TV operators are predicted to lose 20 million subscribers over the next five years

Business

Is ViacomCBS the next big M&A target?

Bank of America analyst suggests company's large library could command a premium as content increasingly comes to be the key differentiator for streaming enterprises

Media Delivery

Over a third of global TV households will be an SVoD subscriber by 2026

Average SVoD subscriber will pay for 2.14 SVoD subscriptions by 2026 – up from 1.74 in 2020

Media Delivery

Conviva: Europe sees 122 per cent streaming growth year-on-year

Latest report also finds viewers are turning to connected TV devices and smart TVs to watch content

Business

EY: Increasing resilience is M&E sector’s top priority post-pandemic

EY surveyed over 100 global industry executives to look at how recent events have impacted their businesses

Media Delivery

Analyst: Netflix to lose European market share, but remain market leader

HBO Max's growth to be hampered by current licensing deals

Media Delivery

Disney Plus, HBO Max to drive Eastern Europe SVoD subs

Digital TV Research forecasts 40 million SVoD subscriptions in the region by 2026 by 2026

Media Delivery

Analyst: Pay-TV’s loss will be digital’s gain in Eastern Europe

Pay-TV will still lead its digital counterpart in terms of overall subscribers

Media Delivery

Analyst: Disney Plus subs to overtake Netflix in next five years

According to Digital TV Research, much of the subscriber growth will be driven by India's Disney Plus Hotstar

Production & Post

Virtual production will be industry norm by 2026 says Nostradamus report

Annual report, released as part of the Göteburg Film Festival forecasts trends in TV and film

Media Delivery

Kantar: Amazon captures almost half of new UK SVoD sign-ups in Q4 2020

Analysts suggest 53.3 per cent of British households are now Prime members, an increase of almost 2 million households during the year

Media Delivery

Ampere: 2021 will be the year of ‘compounding’

According to Ampere's research, there are now more than 400 million subscriptions to streaming services across the US and the ‘big 5’ Western European...

Business

Registration open for TVBEurope’s 2021 MediaTech Outlook report

The annual report brings together exclusive commentary from around the industry on the current state of media technology application and adoption and will be...

Media Delivery

Disney Plus smashes targets again, aims for 260 million subs by 2024

Disney CEO Bob Chapek said the huge popularity of Disney Plus has exceeded the company’s “wildest expectations.”

Business

Deloitte: The Cloud migration forecast remains Cloudy

Analysts predict global cloud spending will grow seven times faster than overall IT spend, while the market for intelligent edge computing will expand to...

Media Delivery