TBI Weekly


TBI Tech & Analysis: How Disney+ fits into South Africa’s SVOD boom

South Africa’s SVOD landscape has seen rapid growth over recent years with global players joining regional operators in the country. Kane McKenna, research analyst at TBI sibling Omdia, explores how Disney+ might fare when it joins the competition. After a tumultuous but ultimately fruitful early period for South Africa’s SVOD market, rapid sustained growth has […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: Exploring emotion in family’s SVOD subscriptions

Streamers are competing on all programming fronts to attract and retain subscribers, but families remain the largest SVOD subscriber base and have huge influence on success. TBI delves into what drives this group’s choices when it comes to picking a streaming platform. Kids content has become a major battleground for streamers, with the genre fast […]

TBI Weekly: What’s next for Africa’s blooming drama business?

From the impact of streamers such as Amazon, Showmax and Netflix, to the acceptance of dubbing/subtitling and the appetite for international coproductions, drama series from Africa are in demand like never before. To explore what this means across the continent and beyond, TBI partnered with The Africa Channel (TAC) and its production division, TAC Studios, […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: Breaking down US OTT live-streaming & on-demand trends

The way in which audiences consume content has changed dramatically over the last few years, with the number of people turning to OTT taking a sharp rise, driven by both the pandemic and the proliferation of streaming services. In the US, OTT content is now watched by 82% of consumers, with only 55% still switching […]

TBI Weekly: Six takeaways from Italian drama market MIA

Italian drama festival Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA) wrapped its seventh edition earlier this week, with a multitude of talking points emerging. Nick Edwards reports from Rome on the six key takeaways affecting the industry. “If you are watching a streaming service, then the average viewer does not care if they are watching a series, a […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: The global view on TV household share decline

Consumer behaviour is changing and a younger audience base is increasingly turning away from the traditional TV set to consume content in new ways, as Omdia’s Helma Hassan explains. Over the past decade, it was clear that millennials had different video consumption habits, but the effect was not easy to quantify, often because they were […]

TBI Weekly: How AVOD can solve factual’s funding gap

Talking to commissioners and producers at MIPCOM this week, it’s clear that factual is in high demand. By contrast, getting shows funded remains an often arduous and time-consuming process – so could AVOD be the answer? Gerrit Kemming, MD at Germany’s Quintus Studios, tells TBI about his experiences. No one needs to tell factual TV […]

TBI Weekly: For the love of God, buy a format!

Back in August, Siobhan Crawford, head of sales & acquisitions at Belgian distributor Primitives, questioned if the format business had a future in a world dominated by derivative, talent-led ideas. Ahead of MIPCOM, she returns to discuss the industry’s response to the article and to offer an alternative approach for those heading to Cannes with […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: Where next for Lat Am as OTT overtakes pay-TV?

Adam Thomas and Sarah Henschel, analysts at TBI sister research group Omdia, reflect on the fast-changing Latin American market, where streaming subscriptions overtook pay-TV subs for the first time in 2020. Paid-for online channel subscription numbers, led by services such as Claro Video and Netflix, continue to rise in Latin America & the Caribbean, increasing […]

TBI Weekly: Exploring Germany’s fast-evolving scripted sector

Germany’s content business is booming, with scripted programming fast becoming a key tool for incumbent broadcast giants and more nascent streamers. Nick Edwards reports from the Berlin TV Series Festival to provide his take on the event and the issues facing the country’s drama industry. The Berlin TV Series Festival, now in its fifth season, […]

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