Business
Netflix could benefit from coronavirus concerns
The company's shares rose 0.8 per cent last week
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Business
WARC: Tech giants’ ad revenue to exceed TV ad spend “for the first time”
Facebook and Google forecast to take 35 cents in every ad dollar in 2020
Data Centre
Personalisation, fewer ads and the goals for live sport streaming
Verizon Media finds "huge opportunity" for live sports
Data Centre
Video comprises “65 per cent of downstream mobile internet traffic”
"Video dominates mobile" according to Sandvine
TVBEverywhere
BT’s NOW TV integration is a “long overdue move”
Analyst Paolo Pescatore calls offering "a last ditch effort to be successful in TV"
Business
Making the BBC a subscription service would be “hugely positive” for UK media industry
Government said to be planning to push the BBC to a subscription model
Data Centre
Nielsen: Streaming comprises a fifth of “TV time”
Content considered most important factor in subscribing to services
Business
Brexit takes a chunk of UK TV market share
European Audiovisual Observatory reveals MAVISE TV and VoD database findings
Data Centre
Denmark, Sweden “lead esports viewing in Europe”
Over one-third of esports viewers now female
Data Centre
European TV subscriptions get the cut
Sky had a net loss of subscribers for the first time
Data Centre
VR headset technology “will be commercially viable within the next five years”
Market increased by five per cent in 2019
Data Centre
Esports “intensifying competition amongst entertainment providers”
Netflix recently identified gaming as bigger competition than other SVoD services
TVBEverywhere
AR, VR and MR market predicted to reach $30 billion over next decade
New report from analysts at IDTechEx
Data Centre
YouTube attracts more viewers than iPlayer “for first time since 2016”
YouTube watched by 73 per cent of internet users in last month
Data Centre
“Leagues are listening” to calls for OTT sport content says Brightcove
Short-form content also on the rise
Business
2020 to bring “even fiercer competition” in streaming wars
Future of esports and 5G discussed in new report from Kantar
Data Centre
Netflix reaches “over 300 million pay-TV households”
Now available on all major pay-TV operators in France
Data Centre
AR/VR spending “to reach $18.8 billion in 2020”
IDC expects commercial sectors to lead the charge
Data Centre
EU piracy falls by 15 per cent
Still €1 billion collected by illegal IPTV providers in the EU each year
Data Centre
Over a third of users worldwide enjoy a “very good or excellent” video experience
The US lags behind Europe
TVBEverywhere
Disney Plus mobile apps downloaded over 15 million times in first fortnight
Averaged 25.6 million sessions a day
Data Centre
5G subscriptions to surpass 2.6 billion by 2025
Total cellular IoT connections to reach 5 billion
Data Centre
Why are Nordic OTT providers going local?
Content spend on originals has increased while acquisition investment decreased
Data Centre
UK viewers unlikely to take algorithm recommendations
Only 16.7 per cent of UK viewers take recommendations from within the app
TVBEverywhere
‘Live TV is dead’ claims analyst
Losing out to SVoD and AVoD much faster than previously thought
Data Centre
Almost half of sport organisations “disappointed with OTT results”
"Successful OTT distribution is by no means a walk in the park"
Data Centre
Disney Plus “to reach 101 million subscribers by 2025”
Major streaming subscriptions to double by 2025
Data Centre
A quarter of UK consumers “plan to subscribe to Disney Plus”
"Netflix remains the streaming king"
Data Centre
Over 40 per cent of Germans see OTT-only future
Two-thirds prefer media libraries of TV channels to YouTube or Netflix
TVBEverywhere
Deloitte predicts how TV and video industries will look in 2030
Lays out four possible scenarios
Data Centre
IP adoption boosts broadcast control solutions value
4K deemed one of the key drivers in IP adoption
TVBEverywhere
Gen Z wants “entertaining and unobtrusive” content
App Annie cites Snapchat’s creator shows as strong examples
Data Centre
Teenagers’ linear TV viewing “halved since 2015”
Viewing on mobile devices among teens has almost doubled
Data Centre
Streaming wars drive content spending boom
Content spend increased by $50 billion in the last five years
Business
Apple TV Plus “could be a $9 billion business by 2025”
Morgan Stanley forecasts 20 per cent growth for Apple’s services business next year
Business
Annual sport spend reaches €10 billion in Europe
European broadcasters spent a third of their content budget on sports in 2018
Data Centre
Amazon, Netflix, Apple among “most connected brands”
"No signs of slowing down" for Netflix