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Buyers Profile: Kai Finke, SkyShowtime, chief content officer

In this ongoing series, TBI speaks to key buyers about the shows they want and the models being used to pay for them. Here, Kai Finke, chief content officer at pan-European streaming service SkyShowtime, discusses returnable titles, high impact acquisitions, the “beauty” of co-productions and becoming the “home” of Star Trek. What kind of shows […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: Underlining the value of Netflix’s non-English content

Omdia’s senior analyst Daoud Jackson delves into Netflix’s global viewership data and explores what it tells us about global consumption patterns. Netflix is both a supplier and a producer of content at a global level, and its viewership data allows us to see where substantial asymmetries exist between where shows are produced and where they […]

TBI Weekly: Why ‘The Wire’s success matters now more than ever

As commissioners look to franchises and mainstream dramas to provide returns on investment, Nick Edwards takes a trip to Baltimore to reflect on how The Wire set a new precedent for scripted series & delivered decades of returns for the HBO brand. In today’s world of squeezed budgets, risk-aversity and a trend towards mainstream, franchise-driven […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: How the big beasts of the global TV & video markets compare

We might be living through a period of retrenchment when it comes to content spending but revenue across the TV & video landscape shows a sector in stable health, writes Omdia’s Adam Thomas. Omdia data shows that in 2023, the total value of TV & video revenue reached $597bn, with the US being the biggest […]

TBI Weekly: How streaming chaos has created a buyers paradise

Not too long ago, it was almost unthinkable that an international streaming service would ever let one of its original titles appear on a rival platform. But the growth-at-any-cost bubble has burst; profits and revenues are down, costs are being cut and now studios and streamers have changed their strategies from chasing subscribers to chasing […]

Why it’s time for creators to get immersed in VR

With Apple TV+ recently adding immersive originals to its lineup, Mark Layton delves into the opportunities, financial models and potential return on investment for producers that make the quantum leap into VR content. Virtual reality and immersive content have, for the best part of a decade, remained largely within the province of gamers and exhibition […]

Script to Screen: The Marlow Murder Club

Ahead of the launch of The Marlow Murder Club tomorrow, Mark Layton speaks to creator Robert Thorogood and exec producer Alison Carpenter about the female-led crime drama’s nine-year journey from screen to book and back again. Death In Paradise creator Robert Thorogood is back with a new murder mystery show, once again based on one […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: Where Nordic TV trends are going next

The Nordic quartet of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland have for decades tended to be forerunners when it comes to consumption trends of video content. Omdia’s Tony Gunnarsson talks TBI through what we can expect next. Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark were home to 34 million subscriptions across streaming and pay TV in 2023, according […]

Opinion: How the under-sixes are leading the digital charge

As kids’ broadcasters expand beyond traditional TV, Francesca Newington, channel director at Narrative Entertainment, says that even the youngest viewers are following their older siblings by watching content in different ways, and reveals how the industry is adapting. Children’s TV viewing habits are ever evolving, and yet another significant step-change for children’s broadcast media is […]

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