Year2021

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Cord-cutters spending US$85 per month on streaming in US

Cord-cutters in the US are spending an average US$85 per month on alternatives to pay…

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Omdia: Italian OTT surge eclipsing declining pay TV

A surge last year in OTT subscriptions in Italy is expected to continue, while a…

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Spanish watchdog demands changes to Telefónica-DAZN F1 deal

Spanish competition and markets regulator the CNMC has demanded that Telefónica change the terms of…

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Swisscom feels the pressure of ‘saturated’ TV market

Swisscom saw its pay TV base decline slightly in the year to June in what…

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Rise of FAST lifts Amagi

The rise of free advertising supported streaming television (FAST) has been the key factor in…

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Have your say in the first DTVE Summer Industry Survey 2021

Digital TV Europe has announced the launch of the first ever DTVE Summer Survey 2021….

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LaLiga eyes DTC streamer

Spanish football league LaLiga is reportedly planning on launching a DTC streaming service for the…

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Ocilion picks Vubiquity for VOD content 

German IPTV provider ocilion has announced a partnership with Amdocs-owned Vubiquity. The five-year agreement will…

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Sony’s Funimation closes Crunchyroll acquisition

Sony’s Funimation group has completed its $1.175bn acquisition of AT&T’s global anime streaming service Crunchyroll,…

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Serie A lands on BT Sport

On the eve of the new season, BT Sport has acquired the UK broadcasting rights…

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Sky hires Prasanna Gopalakrishnan as CTO following global search

Sky Group has announced the appointment of Prasanna Gopalakrishnan as its chief technology officer. The…

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UK’s BARB extends reporting to TV on smartphones

UK audience measurement organisation BARB has extended its viewing reporting of linear TV to encompass…

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France’s SFR sets out packages with Amazon Ligue 1 offering

Amazon’s new French top-tier football offering is now available as part of a set of…

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Spanish watchdog gives qualified welcome to new media law proposals

Spain’s markets regulator the CNMC has published an update on plans for a revision of…

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Polsat unveils new online and multiscreen offerings in line with rebrand

Polish pay TV provider Polsat Plus Group has unveiled two new online and multiscreen TV…

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Real Madrid and Barcelona state objections to LaLiga-CVC deal

The top two clubs in Spanish football – Real Madrid and Barcelona – have publicly denounced the…

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Unified Streaming brings Unified Origin software to Microsoft Azure

Video streaming tech provider Unified Streaming has announced the availability of its Unified Origin software…

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discovery+ launches on VIZIO TVs

Discovery has announced the expansion of its discovery+ streaming service to VIZIO smart TVs.  The…

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Synamedia buys ContentArmor for forensic watermarking tech

Video software provider Synamedia has announced the acquisition of forensic watermarking form ContentArmor. Terms of…

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Amazon Fire TV gets first Spanish-language news network

Estrella Media has announced the launch of its News channel on Amazon Fire TV devices….

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Docustream comes to Samsung TV Plus

SPI/FilmBox has brought its ad-supported streaming channel Docustream to Samsung TV Plus. Available in India,…

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RTL to rebrand TV Now as RTL+, plans international rollout in ’22

RTL Group had over three million paying streaming subscribers at the half-year point, a highlight…

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Canal+ to appeal as court orders it to honour Ligue 1 contract

Canal+ has said it will contest a ruling by the Nanterre commercial court ordering it…

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ProSiebenSat.1 posts solid results on advertising growth

Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 has posted solid Q2 results, with revenue growing by 48% to €1.048 billion,…

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StarTimes renews Italian football rights

Chinese-owned African digital pay TV operator StarTimes has renewed exclusive rights to broadcast Coppa Italia…

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Record month for ITV Hub 

July was the most successful month on record for UK BVOD service ITV Hub. Driven…

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Paramount+ ‘clearly working’ as ViacomCBS adds 6.5 million streaming subs

Paramount+ has had its best quarter for subscriber growth since its launch in March, ViacomCBS…

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Twitch drops subscription prices in Europe

Twitch has lowered the cost of its subscriptions in Europe by 20%. The Amazon-owned platform…

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Converge launches new streamer and STB

Filipino telco Converge is launching a new entertainment streaming service.  Dubbed VISION, the service is…

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Prime Video comes to Foxtel

The Foxtel Group has announced a distribution deal with Amazon to integrate Prime Video into…