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A week of doom and gloom leaves little room for optimism – is it any surprise?
Well that was depressing. Once every few months, the stars align and we here at…
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Netflix’s moment of respite
Netflix’s latest results this week provided a moment of respite a company whose star has…
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Netflix makes shrewd decision in partnering with Microsoft
Netflix this week confirmed that it is partnering with Microsoft for its upcoming ad-supported offering….
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Great expectations should be the norm for increasingly valuable women’s sports
There is no denying that there is still a gulf between women’s and men’s sports…
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Three more years of the second Bob
When he was appointed to succeed the widely popular Bob Iger atop the Disney hierarchy,…
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Does the UK have room for another major SVOD?
One of the more curious sights to have seen this week surrounding the launch of…
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Increased IPL rights value presents challenges for DisneyStar and Viacom18
The Indian Premier League (IPL) was already one of the most valuable sports competitions on…
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Stranger Things success shows Netflix is still the king of streaming – but for how long?
The prevailing narrative over the past 12 months is that Netflix has run out of…
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BBC linear shutdown is a symptom of a pubcaster in crisis
The BBC has announced a number of major cost-cutting measures as it looks to modernise…
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Strategies for launching and monetising a FAST channel
Free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) services are growing rapidly. Today, hundreds of FAST channels exist,…
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How will the UK’s cost-of-living crisis impact consumer video spending?
It has been difficult to avoid stories about the UK’s cost-of-living crisis in recent times,…
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BT and Warner Bros. Discovery lay out gameplan to take on Sky but face challengers on all sides
A little over four months after the pair announced exclusive talks, BT and Warner Bros….
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SVODs without advertising are quickly becoming the outlier
Amid all the hullabaloo surrounding Netflix’s recent earnings – from its shocking subscriber loss to…
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Virgin Media swims upstream
Digital TV Europe was in attendance this week when Virgin Media O2 made its big…
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Disney is not giving up on linear… yet
Ever since it announced the shutdown of its linear channels in the UK in late…
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YouTube’s push into AVOD proves viability of format
Evidently not content with just being the second-most-visited website on the planet (second only to…
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Streamers set sights on sports
At a time when content production budgets are seemingly ballooning out of control (I’m looking…
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Stick or twist – can ITV survive backlash to its streaming revamp?
It is not an especially good time to be a pubcaster in the UK. The…
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Old brands, new stories: ‘Heritage’ media’s big challenge
Rob Gallagher, vice president of consumer research at Omdia, examines the challenges facing ‘heritage brands’…
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Paramount rebrand is final throw of the dice for the company to be a streaming leader
So long ViacomCBS, we hardly knew ye. Less than three years after re-merging, ViacomCBS has…
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Nordic streamer’s milestone shows that there’s life outside of the US
For all the recent talk of Netflix under delivering, Disney performing better than expected, and…
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BT playing long game with Discovery sports deal
‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.’ The words of…
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HBO success is a good sign for Warner Bros. Discovery, but troubling for AT&T
After a somewhat rocky start involving technical and carriage issues, HBO Max has firmly established…
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Netflix’s ‘poor’ results serve as reflection of pull-forward pandemic and a competitive streaming landscape
On paper, missing a subscriber target by 100,000 internationally doesn’t seem like much in the…
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BT’s potential sports deal with DAZN suits all parties
Less than a year after it confirmed that it was exploring a sale, BT is…
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Is the ‘streaming war’ a three-horse race?
Jason Kilar is a confident man. Less than a year ago, it was reported that…
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Should streamers help to fund Europe’s network expansion?
Setting competition aside, a group of 13 telco CEOs have called on the US tech…
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The Premier League’s mega US rights deal represents the next step of its international evolution
After much speculation, the English Premier League has confirmed its record international rights deal with…
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Paramount+ was late to the party, but ViacomCBS’s aggressive streaming strategy is paying off
In terms of the major US media players who have launched their own major streaming…
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The future of American SVOD lies outside of the US
There is little more to say about Netflix that hasn’t already been said. There had…