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Analysis: Forza! Italian streaming market surging
Market data from across the country shows a 'decisive' shift towards digital, with SVoD revenues up 12 per cent year-on-year
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Report: More UK viewers watching PSBs via apps than traditional over-the-air
The report also reveals 84.5 per cent of respondents use at least one SVoD service (up from 81 per cent in 2024)
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Opinion: factors driving change across the streaming marketplace
Craig Ferguson, director of regional sales, Europe at Evergent, outlines the key shifts in the streaming market and takes a look ahead at the...
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Economic pressures continue to shape strategy across the industry, says Bitmovin’s Video Developer Report
The ninth edition of the annual report found cost control is the industry's primary challenge, with bandwidth, storage and infrastructure optimisation the key areas...
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Barb: almost all SVoD services showing quarterly growth
Findings from the company's latest survey suggest users are moving from ad-free to ad-supported subscriptions, with limited churn also reported
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Barb: UK viewers continue to embrace streamers’ AVoD options
Disney+ saw the biggest increase in terms of the number of homes subscribing to its AVoD tier, up from 1.5 million in Q4 2024...
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Kantar: UK streaming war intensifies in Q1
First quarter data reveals growth in ad-supported streaming tiers, with Prime Video and Apple TV+ standout performers at the start of 2025
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Comcast Technology Solutions debuts MediaExpress VoD management platform
The solution provides a single platform for ingesting video, metadata and supporting files, streamlining monetisation strategies across SVoD, AVoD, TVoD or FAST channels
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Opinion: what can OTT learn from social media?
Bleuenn Le Goffic, VP business transformation at Accedo, explores the opportunities available to video services through emulating social media models
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Amagi: Audiences frustrated with fragmented streaming experience
Content providers need to develop unified distribution strategies rather than deploying separate teams and infrastructure, said Amagi's 14th Global FAST Report
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Opinion: Following the viewer’s journey
Matt Ross, chief analytics officer at SVoD viewing measurement company Digital i, explains why broadcasters and streamers continue to need timely and insightful audience...
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Slam dunk for Sqweek with LiveU Studio localisation
The cloud-based video production solution aims to drive EuroLeague Basketball coverage with remote local language commentary
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Comcast launches global Cloud TV platform
The company aims to enable broadcasters and video service providers to deliver multi-platform TV, both broadcast and OTT, from the cloud via a managed...
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Stockholm Stream helps Splatter horror across the Nordics
The solution eliminates technical horrors, said the company
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TiVo expands European footprint to boost AI-powered content discovery
Tivo's metadata and tagging capabilities aim to enable targeted content search and discovery initiatives across diverse programming types
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Re-classifying broadcast: The slow history of change
Benjamin Shirley, product manager, broadcast at MainConcept, takes a trip through broadcast's recent history, from MPEG-2 to AVC, HD to UHD, and the arrival...
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Barb: UK SVoD breaks 20 million barrier
The report shows a 6.6 per cent year-on-year increase, reaching 20 million homes for the first time since the organisation began collecting data
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WBD surges to UK’s third-most popular SVoD in latest Kantar EoD study
Sport content has been a key driver for 1 in 4 new subscribers, helping Warner Bros Discovery (TNT/EuroSport/discovery+) increase market share, said Kantar
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Opinion: Powering digital linear channel creation in the FAST era
Rick Young, SVP head of global products at LTN, explains the importance of innovation in driving audience growth strategies
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Report: Commercial broadcasters need bold streaming strategies to reclaim lost ground
According to Ampere Analysis, broadcasters need to invest in VoD platforms and enhance digital capabilities to meet the challenges of audiences transitioning to streaming
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Kantar: VoD continues to grow globally, except in Great Britain
FAST is also growing, with services now active in more than a third of households
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Barb: Q4 2023 sees drop in SVoD subscriptions as UK households tighten purse strings over festive period
Almost all of the global streamers saw a decrease in UK subscribers during Q4 2023, apart from Paramount+, which could have benefited from the...
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The trends of 2023: Ad-supported streaming and FAST
Sri Hari Thirunavukkarasu, SVP sales, EMEA, Amagi, discusses the growing adoption of advertising-supported models by the major streaming services, as well as how traditional...
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Big six streamers predicted to reach almost a billion subscribers by 2029
Netflix will remain the largest single platform, adding 44 million subscribers between 2023 and 2029 to take its total to 298 million, said Digital...
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The changing face of the video industry
If there’s one thing that’s certain in the video industry, it’s that nothing stays the same for long, so providers must also embrace a...
Media Delivery
Unlocking streaming experimentation with flexible technology foundations
In the fast-evolving streaming landscape, flexibility isn't just an advantage; it's a necessity, writes Thomas Box, director of solutions engineering, media and entertainment, Edgio
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Nearly half of viewers aren’t seeing value from streaming subscriptions, survey finds
A new survey from ViewNexa suggests that streaming viewers are dissatisfied with the value they get from their subscriptions, citing poor content discovery and...
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Hybrid video on demand in growth, says report
Hybrid video on demand (HVoD) services are becoming more prevalent as subscription premium video platforms embrace ad-supported tiers, according to new research in the FreeWheel...
Adtech
Hold on, not so FAST…
Oscar Gutierrez, VP business development, Switch Media explains how FAST channels can be used to target specific audiences via individual channels to drive reach...
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Analysts: Big six streamers will hit $72 billion in revenues by 2029
Netflix will remain the leader of the pack with $34 billion expected by 2029 – more than Disney+, HBO Max and Paramount+ combined
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OTT revenues to increase a third by 2029
SVoD will remain the principal OTT revenue source, growing by $19 billion between 2023 and 2029
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Cost of living crisis sees UK fall behind Germany in SVoD subscriptions
Western Europe is forecast to have 273 million SVoD subscriptions by 2029, up from 210 million by end-2023
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Analysts: Global streamers won’t return to Russia before 2029
The top platform by subscribers for the region will not be US-based – it will be Kinopoisk, which is only available in Russia, said...
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Analysts: The boom years for US OTT are over
SVoD revenues will increase by only $2 billion to $55 billion – with little growth from 2025. leading analysts at Digital TV Research to...
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Disney Plus confirms ad-supported tier to rollout in Europe
The ad-supported version of Disney Plus had attracted 3.3 million subscribers since its launch in December 2022
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Monetisation on the move: Three surprising ways to build-in flexibility for the future of OTT
Carlos Prieto, head of sales EMEA for 24i, offers three suggestions as to how content owners can "flex" their streaming business models. from AVoD...
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What cost of living crisis? Number of UK homes with one SVoD subscription rises in Q2 2023
The research also found 7 per cent of British households took out a new streaming subscription in the second quarter of 2023, up from...
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‘Even if you’re Netflix it’s quite tricky’: How SVoD services can balance the integration of AVoD
Bedrock CEO Jonas Engwall talks to TVBEurope about how it's helping content owners develop the rights streaming platform for them, and how building a...
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PwC: Brits to spend more on streaming than TV by 2025
The analysts' Global Entertainment & Media (E&M) Outlook 2023-2027 suggests SVoD (£4.2 billion) will overtake TV subscriptions (£4.1 billion) in terms of revenue by...
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Amazon Prime Video ‘planning ad-supported tier’
The tech giant is said to have been holding early discussions over the past few weeks.
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‘Plenty of growth left’: Global SVoD subscribers set to reach 1.76 billion by 2028
According to Digital TV Research, Disney Plus will add 57 million subscribers subscribers over the next five years, but Netflix will remain the largest...
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Iger: Ad-supported Disney Plus to roll out in Europe this year
"I'm incredibly bullish on our longer-term advertising positioning," said Disney CEO Bob Iger