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50 VOD Professionals is Back for 2026!

Our list of the 50 most influential people working in the UK’s video-on-demand and OTT industry – is back for 2026!

Nominations are now open and we’d like to hear from you about the brilliant people that power VOD services all over the UK. Tell us about them all!

Nominations close on the 19th May at 5pm.

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Riffs S2, Ep.5: The Cost of Premier League DTC

The Riffs Show - Season 2, Episode 5

The Premier League has just announced Premier League Plus – a new DTC streaming service launching in Singapore next season. Which led us to ask: what would happen if they tried the same thing in the UK?

For this week’s episode, Lydia and I built financial models independently and then compared them live on the show.

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