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TBI Weekly
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TBI Weekly: Six takeaways from the Edinburgh TV Festival
From snarky remarks around reboots, to a scripted industry in “corrective” mode and Netflix’s attempts to assert itself…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Reappraising Disney+ Hotstar’s potential in India
India’s streaming industry offers huge subscriber potential but lower average revenues per user, and operators…
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TBI Weekly: Unscripted paper format creators you need to know (part 2)
Format creatives and their ideas are in demand, but where can you find them and what…
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TBI Weekly: Who cares about streaming figures?
A nice view can take you a long way in the streaming world. The majestic…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Exploring viewing habits across Europe
Over recent weeks, TBI has brought you exclusive insights around content consumption in the US…
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TBI Weekly: What Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest moves spell for DC & HBO
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has finally started drawing out the roadmap for its merged streaming…
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TBI Weekly: Why HBO Max & Hulu’s rights-sharing deal adds up
HBO Max and Hulu’s decision to share ‘co-exclusive’ streaming rights to breakout comedy hit Abbot Elementary can…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Getting behind the headlines on viewing habits
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ recent prediction around the demise of linear TV prompted a flurry…
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TBI Weekly: What’s next for France’s public broadcasters?
Public broadcasters across Europe are facing an existential crisis, as politicians look to scrap licence…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: How Netflix turned ‘Stranger Things S4’ into a billion-hour bonanza
Netflix hit Stranger Things returned for a much-anticipated fourth season in May and, according to…
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TBI Weekly: Unscripted paper format creators you need to know (part 1)
In June, TBI’s resident format expert Siobhan Crawford put out a call to those developing the…
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TBI Weekly: Why WBD’s backtracking offers regional opportunities
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD)’s decision to end the global roll-out of HBO Max and its backtracking…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: What Channel 4’s rising ad revenue spells for privatisation potential
While the UK government looks to privatise commercial broadcaster Channel 4, citing an unsustainable funding…
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TBI Weekly: Why Disney+ strategy in France speaks to a global truth
Disney+ has been out in force here at Série Series in France, which is rather…
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TBI Weekly: What’s next for the swashbuckling world of windowing & rights?
Disney and Viacom18 last week struck a $6bn deal to share rights to the Indian…
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TBI Weekly: What BANFF & MIFA tell us about 2022 so far
TBI has been on the road this week, taking in the mountainous surroundings of Annecy…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Digging into Netflix & Amazon’s int’l strategies
Tim Westcott, Omdia’s senior principal analyst, digital content and channels, delves into the differing…
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TBI Weekly: What BBCS & Vuulr deal says about rights cycles & distribution
BBC Studios’ agreement with Vuulr revealed earlier this week is another nod to the rapidly changing…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Why SVOD giants have embraced non-US content
Tim Westcott, Omdia’s senior principal analyst, digital content and channels, explores why Netflix and Amazon…
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TBI Weekly: Why all eyes are on SVOD’s embrace of wildlife TV
Natural history has been evolving at pace over recent years, driven by surging demand from streamers….
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TBI Tech & Analysis: How producers can outfox the NFT scammers
After a recent NFT scam led to a halt in production, consultant solicitor Julian Wilkins…
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TBI Weekly: Has LA Screenings become just another market?
LA Screenings was once seen as an annual pilgrimage to the home of entertainment for international…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Unpacking Netflix’s most-watched shows in Q1 2022
Netflix suffered a battering from investors after its first quarter 2022 results, but how did…
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TBI Weekly: What ‘Batwoman’ & ‘Yellowstone’ tell us ahead of LA Screenings
Next week’s LA Screenings promise to provide some answers to some big questions – namely,…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: What the Nordics tell us about streaming’s future
The Nordics have always tended to be at the forefront of global streaming trends, neatly…
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TBI Weekly: Are we looking at peak M&A?
Consolidation is as much a part of the global TV business as cliffhanger endings and…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: How online video can stand out amid a “tyranny of choice”
Netflix’s personalized homepage may drive viewership, but more and more people are looking beyond online…
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TBI Weekly: What lies beyond the SVOD horizon?
Netflix’s plummeting share price has underlined the fragility of an SVOD-only model and already fed…
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TBI Weekly: Five ways UK reforms will impact the int’l industry
TV industries around the world are bracing for change as governments look to reform regulations around content –…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Unpacking India’s surging streaming ecosystem
India’s SVOD subscriber numbers soared by more than a third in 2021 to reach 73…