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TBI Weekly
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TBI Weekly: TBI’s favourite shows of 2020
With lockdowns and travel restrictions throughout 2020, we’ve all probably watched more content than ever…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Global TV Production in 2020
Tim Westcott, senior research manager for channels, programming & advertising at research powerhouse Omdia explores…
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TBI Weekly: Could Kew Media have been saved?
11 December marks a year to the day since Kew Media Group (KMG) revealed it…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Six Southeast Asia streaming super-trends for 2021
Jun Wen Woo, senior analyst for TV & online at research powerhouse Omdia, offers six…
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TBI Weekly: What Discovery+ means for global non-fiction
Discovery+ looks likely to be the last major streamer to be unveiled in 2020, but…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Where next for pay-TV in a streaming future?
Fateha Begum, principle analyst at TBI sibling OMDIA, tells Richard Middleton about the key trends facing pay-TV…
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TBI Weekly: Six lessons from six months of HBO Max
Today marks six months to the day since WarnerMedia’s US SVOD service HBO Max launched…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Exploring TV revenue raisers as streaming surges
Traditional TV markets are, at best, in slow-growth mode with the reality often being stagnation…
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TBI Weekly: What comes after the streaming revolution?
Covid-19 has accelerated a swathe of trends that were already apparent across the business prior to the…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Six streaming super-trends for 2021
Tony Gunnarsson, principal analyst for media & entertainment at TBI sibling OMDIA, reflects on a…
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TBI Weekly: Six reasons why 2020 has been the year of AVOD
With an unexpected global pandemic and the roll-out of direct-to-consumer streamers from the US studios…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Channels & programming super-trends for 2021
Covid-19’s impact on production has radically changed acquisition activity for streamers and channels in 2020,…
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TBI Weekly: Georgia Senate hopeful Jon Ossoff on democracy & the media
As the US elections play out to a global audience, TBI returns to a column we…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Reflecting on Apple TV+ one year in
Apple TV+ might have the world’s most expensive company behind it, but intense competition in…
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TBI Weekly: Supersized restructuring reflects global streaming revolution
Covid-19’s impact on the global TV industry is going to be felt for years to…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Emerging super-trends for 2021
2020 has brought unprecedented change for the content business, with Covid-19 acting as an accelerant…
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TBI Weekly: Why Quibi’s failure isn’t the end for shortform
Sarah Jane Thomson, CEO at global shortform streamer discover.film, digs into the reasons behind Quibi’s closure…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Peacock takes flight as subs flock in
NBCUniversal’s streamer Peacock might have had its feathers ruffled by the global pandemic affecting its…
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TBI Weekly: What MIPCOM Online+ delivered this week
It has been a MIPCOM like no other and yet despite the lack of rosé…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: How voice-controlled devices affect content consumption
The proliferation of content available to viewers has been a hallmark trend of the past…
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TBI Weekly: Dialling down on distribution ahead of MIPCOM Online+
This year’s pre-MIPCOM rush has felt like nothing else before it, not least because no…
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TBI Weekly: Five takeaways from the UK production census
UK trade body Pact today unveiled its annual production census, revealing record figures driven largely…
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TBI Weekly: Six takeaways from a week of scripted developments
Scripted has been at the centre of a storm since Covid-19 landed as global lockdowns…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Where next for linear TV’s Covid boom?
Covid-19 enforced lockdowns around the world had propelled viewing figures for linear networks skywards but…
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TBI Weekly: Delivering diversity in children’s programming
TBI deputy editor Mark Layton takes a deep dive to explore how the global TV…
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TBI Weekly: Why global partners are key to Tim Davie’s BBC
BBC chief Tim Davie’s first week as head of the world’s best-known public broadcaster is…
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TBI Weekly: Six takeaways from Edinburgh TV Festival
The 2020 Edinburgh TV Festival’s virtual nature didn’t stop the annual event from making an…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Will Disney’s ‘Mulan’ mark a movie watershed?
Disney’s recent decision to launch Mulan via its own streamer in early September has provided…
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TBI Weekly: What does TikTok’s first reality show mean for TV?
ELF Cosmetics might not be on the tip of your tongue when it comes to…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Reflecting on results & Disney’s direct model
Ed Barton & Tim Westcott, senior analysts at TBI sibling Omdia, explore what the recent…