Business
Entertainment industry set for $160 billion hit from coronavirus
New figures from Ampere Analysis
revenues
Media Delivery
OTT revenues predicted to double over next five years
New figures from Digital TV Research
Data Centre
Eastern European OTT revenues to triple in five years
Expected to reach $3.58 billion in 2025
Business
Channel 4 to furlough staff
All executive and non-executive Board members have taken an immediate voluntary 20 per cent pay cut
Business
JP Morgan warns of European media sector downturn
Bank is cutting its media sector EPS forecast by 15 per cent in 2020
Business
Global entertainment revenues surpass $100 billion “for the first time”
The MPA found that the overall surge was mostly down to streaming
Business
ITV’s McCall “not considering” BBC director general job
Current DG due to step down in the summer
Business
Amazon Prime hits 150 million subscribers
AWS reported revenue growth of 34 per cent for Q4 2019
Business
Apple TV Plus ‘immaterial’ to latest revenue announcement
Apple reported a record $12.72 billion in services revenue, but that doesn't include Apple TV Plus
TVBEverywhere
Netflix reaches almost 48 million viewers in EMEA
EMEA is the streamer's second biggest market
Business
Multi-platform content delivery is ‘most important priority for technology users’ says IABM
Report also finds revenue growth has decreased since April 2019
Data Centre
Playout solutions market ‘will be worth $1.2 billion by 2027’
Europe predicted to be the second biggest area in terms of revenue share
Business
Arqiva reports full-year revenue growth, but Satellite and Media division sees a drop
Decision to reduce focus on playout leads to drop
Data Centre
Pay-TV revenues ‘have reached their peak’
Pay-TV revenues peaked in 2016 at $205 billion according to Digital TV Research
Business
Netflix adds another 8 million international subscribers
Streamer beat its own estimates for Q1 2019
TVBEverywhere
Netflix ‘could be losing up to $2.3 billion a year to piracy’
According to a study by CordCutting.com
Data Centre
Global subscription OTT revenues to overtake cinema in 2019
Even sooner in US and UK according to Ampere Analysis
Data Centre
Netflix’s revenue on mobile passes $1.5 billion
November 2018 was streamer's best month on record
Data Centre
Global TV revenues to hit $265 billion in 2018
Revenues will increase by $9 million year-on-year according to new report
Data Centre
Western Europe TV revenues predicted to reach $50 billion by 2023
OTT revenues for TV episodes and movies (including AVOD) will more than double to $23 billion
Business
Analyst: Television broadcast services market will be worth $750+ billion by 2026
Predicted increase of over $350 billion compared to 2016's figure
Business
Europe’s leading commercial TV company sees decline in free TV business
RTL operates 61 television channels in 30 European countries
Data Centre
Global pay-TV operators ‘to lose $20 billion in revenues’
All of current top 10 operators predicted to lose revenues over next five years
Data Centre
Pay-TV revenues set to plummet despite subscriber increase
Revenues are estimated to fall 11 per cent in five years as more homes convert to bundles
Data Centre
IPTV predicted to be worth $117.07 billion by 2025
New report by Grand View Research predicts CAGR of 13.7 per cent
Data Centre
Western Europe pay-TV revenues fall while subscribers increase
Digital TV Research predicts total subscribers to hit 106 million by 2023
Business
Wales reports record year for TV and film production
Productions filmed with Welsh Government assistance will result in an additional £55 million being injected into Wales’ economy in 2017/18
Business
Sky takes aim at Netflix, Amazon with new smart stick and download service
Broadcaster also announced rise in revenue and move into film production
TVBEverywhere
OTT revenues ‘to reach $120 billion by 2020’
Over a quarter of global households expected to subscribe to SVoD services by 2022
Business
UK TV advertising set to decline for first time in five years
GroupM suggests revenues will fall in 2017 before stabilising in 2018
Business
Netflix on track to exceed $11 billion in revenue this year
Company exceeded its own expectations for Q3
TVBEverywhere
OTT TV episode and movie revenues to reach $83 billion
Revenues are predicted to double in the next five years