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ITV has reported strong growth in its OTT services in Q1 2020. Compared to the same period last year, long form online viewing hours were up 75% to 169.4 million, simulcast viewing was up 112% and reach up 40% on the company's AVOD product, ITV Hub. ITV is also seeing ...

ThinkAnalytics™ today revealed that revenues increased 30% year-on-year for the fiscal year ending 31 December 2019, particularly driven by strong demand in the US for the ThinkAnalytics personalized content discovery platform and ThinkInsight, its real time dashboard and big data analytics solution.  Reflecting the firm’s substantial investments in ...

Netflix has posted its latest round of quarterly financial figures with the headline number of a net 16 million increase in global paying subscribers. The SVOD giant now has just short of 183m paid memberships. In its letter to shareholders, Netflix said: "During the first two months of ...

All 4 has achieved its highest number of quarterly views ever across Q1 of this year, driven by titles including Friday Night Dinner, Gogglebox, The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer, Hollyoaks, Celebs Go Dating and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. This record breaking period includes All 4’s ...

ITV has announced that its OTT service, ITV Hub, has achieved a significant uplift in both reach and consumption hours during the first quarter of 2020.  Year on year consumption hours have increased by 82%, while monthly reach on the platform has risen by 40%. ITV Hub plus, ITV’s ...

The UK’s public service broadcasters - the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, S4C - have today come together to ask the Government to work with them to support freelancers working in the broadcasting industry during this unprecedented period. In a joint letter to the Chancellor signed by ...

Disney+ has launched today in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Switzerland. The service will launch in France on April 7th. In light of concerns regarding the current ability of certain broadband infrastructure to handle the anticipated consumer demand for Disney+, the service will now feature ...

ITV has announced business continuity plans to address the continuing coronavirus pandemic. The broadcaster assures viewers that news and popular TV shows like Coronation Street and Emmerdale will remain on air. Daytime linear TV viewing, as well as OTT consumption on ITV Hub, has increased. Carolyn McCall, ITV's ...

Viaplay, the Nordic streaming service, has reported major increases in viewing for its non-sports content.  Total streamed minutes on Viaplay - across Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland (excluding sports coverage) - were up 44% last week compared to the same week in 2019, and up 13% compared to ...

Usually attended by over 90,000 delegates and 1,600 exhibitors from 160 countries, NAB, the OTT industry's premier exhibition and conference, which was due to take place in Las Vegas in April, has been cancelled this year over fears of the spread of the global coronavirus pandemic.  Announcing the news on ...

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ITV, the UK's biggest commercial broadcaster, has published its 2019 financial results which show strong growth across a range of the company's activities.  Content production revenues (via ITV Studios) rose 9% to £1.8bn YOY Long form online viewing broke 500m hours served for the first time (506m compared ...

BBC Studios, the principal commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, today announce plans to launch the BritBox streaming service in Australia.  The ad-free subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming service will bring Australians an unrivalled collection of great British TV shows, and will build ...

ITV has announced Rhys McLachlan will become their new Director of Advanced Advertising. McLachlan was previously Head of Global TV Strategy at Amobee, the global digital advertising technology company with whom ITV signed an exclusive UK and Ireland licensing agreement with last year. Since announcing the Amobee deal, ...

Channel 4 today announces the appointment of Bede McCarthy as Head of Product, All 4.  Reporting to Chief Product Officer Dave Cameron, Bede will be responsible for creating Channel 4’s’s digital product experience on All 4 in order to drive additional consumption as part of the channel’s mission ...

Sky and Disney today announced a new multi-year deal, making Disney+ available for purchase in the UK and Ireland on Sky Q, to be followed by NOW TV in the coming months. Customers will be able to watch great new shows like The Mandalorian and High School Musical; ...