The sports broadcasting rights market is transforming and the news earlier this week that Lega Serie A is reportedly considering making a bid to acquire all or part of the country’s leading pay TV operator Sky Italia adds colour to the view that sport rights holders are eyeing new business models to ensure they’re not […]
First the revolution, then the reaction. The big studios and tech companies that have plunged wholeheartedly into video streaming have now retrenched, with casualties mounting in the shape of layoffs and cancelled shows. Disney was no exception. In February the mouse house’s Q1 financials came in below expectations, weighed down by costs associated with the […]
Getting a streaming business up and running is not a straightforward exercise. Making it pay is vastly more challenging. But making a go of a premium sports streaming business is perhaps the most obstacle-strewn path of all. Huge question marks remain over the viability of sports-themed streaming. The reluctance of Netflix to involve itself in […]
For a brief moment this month, it felt as though the TV industry had been transported back to the 1990s. Canal+ teasing a movie channel, Warner Bros Discovery explaining the strategic merits of a standalone thematic factual brand and FIFA announcing records broadcast revenues all had a sense of déjà vu about them. All we […]
After months of uncertainty, France Télévisions, M6 and TF1 finally decided to call it a day on Salto, their streaming JV. Billed as a home-grown French alternative to the US streamers, it simply didn’t have the firepower to compete. In coming weeks, its 800,000+ customers will presumably dissipate in the direction of rival services. Nobody […]
For the last year, the hot topic in the streaming business has been the cost of content. Just how much do leading platforms need to spend in order to attract customers and hold on to them? But as this week’s headlines illustrate, there also another key debate playing out – which is the role of legacy […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that 2023 would be “a year of efficiency”. He was, of course, referring to his own company’s belt-tightening plans – but he could have been speaking for any major firm in the media business. With the economy turning sour and content & innovation losses mounting, the emphasis among […]
Comcast, which the European Audiovisual Observatory this week identified as Europe’s biggest media company by revenue, ahead of Netflix, produced a mixed bag of full-year results for 2022, with streaming service Peacock’s success in attracting subscribers set against a darkening outlook for UK pay TV giant Sky. In his opening remarks on Comcast’s investor call, […]
Adieu then to Reed Hastings, who is handing the baton of leading Netflix’s quarterly earnings to new co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters. Netflix’s unexpected surge in subscriber additions for the final quarter of 2022 has allowed Hastings to exit on a high note, and has provided further evidence that this company can never be […]
There has been plenty of news about Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) this week. Not unusual about that in recent months, but four of the most recent stories are particularly striking. First, WBD revealed it would increase the domestic US price of its HBO Max streaming service as it fights to stem heavy losses. The dollar-a-month […]
ICYMI: Amazon launches QLED TV range in UK, Germany and Mexico as it passes 200m milestone digitaltveurope.com/2023/03/23/ama… https://t.co/woMxE1FQyV
23 March 2023 @ 22:00:01 UTC
ICYMI: @netflix reportedly passes one million ad-supported subs digitaltveurope.com/2023/03/23/net… https://t.co/Dtw7EJXBEi
23 March 2023 @ 21:00:01 UTC
.@TF1: free entertainment that promotes French culture to compete with streamers digitaltveurope.com/2023/03/23/tf1… https://t.co/EoVbkezvSx
23 March 2023 @ 20:00:00 UTC
.@zattoo adds three new FAST channels from Mainstream Media digitaltveurope.com/2023/03/23/zat…
23 March 2023 @ 19:00:00 UTC
Pay-TV subscribers in Eastern Europe is to fall by 8m by 2028 digitaltveurope.com/2023/03/23/pay… https://t.co/iWObUAcAu2
23 March 2023 @ 18:00:01 UTC
