YouTube overtakes ITV, but is broadcast TV really dying? We break down the latest Ofcom and BARB data with a critical eye.

Two bits of industry news this week got me thinking about perception, bias, nuance.

First, Ofcom published new recommendations about the prominence of public service content in the streaming age. In essence: as the media landscape shifts decisively to IP delivery, public service media (PSM) must remain easy to …

50 VOD Professionals – our list of the 50 most influential people working in the UK’s video-on-demand and OTT industry – is back for 2025!

Nominations are now open and we’d like to hear from you about the brilliant people that power VOD services all over the UK: the designers who …

For good or bad, a typical Overton Window – the process via which an idea might move from unthinkable > radical > acceptable > sensible > popular > entirely unremarkable – used to have a reliable half-life of years.

Interracial marriage, for example, in the US was still banned …

One of the most striking things about our OTT Question Time Live conferences is how much appetite there is for sharing knowledge, insights, and hard-won lessons — even (perhaps especially) among senior industry figures. I guess it’s a truism that while companies compete, people collaborate.

With that …

There’s an alchemy about creating a hit TV show or movie which seems impervious to logic, money, even data.

In theory, the formula is fairly straightforward – and replicable. A solid script. Actors who are willing to commit. A director and crew who share a similar vision.

And yet, …

When COVID hit in 2020, I remember speaking to a friend at a UK broadcaster just after the first national lockdown was announced. We’d had some warning this was coming — Italy had imposed similar restrictions a couple of weeks earlier — but the moment still landed with dizzying …

It started with steel and washing machines, then moved on to cars and Chinese electronics. But what if the next wave of US protectionism – major new announcements expected tomorrow – targets culture? Specifically, what if Trump 2.0 were to slap a 20% import tariff on all non-American TV …

In its recent Q3 report, Netflix reported that its AVOD tier was proving to be extremely popular: ads memberships were up 35% quarter-on-quarter and, in the countries where it was available, the ad tier accounted for 50% of new sign-ups. Over at Disney, D2C streaming revenues were up 15%, …

Ben Keen, the renowned OTT industry analyst, recently published a report about the state of UK film financing for the British Screen Forum. In it he outlined some of the trends he’d spotted over the past 10 years including: total spending across all film and High-End Television (HETV) …