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Tech & Analysis: How US streamers are doubling down on Spanish-language shows
US-based streamers are doubling-down on Spanish-language content and making significant investments over recent years. Ahead…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Why connected TV matters in an ad-supported world
Omdia’s Matthew Bailey shares key recommendations for service providers, broadcasters and content owners as the…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: A guiding hand to 2023’s ad-supported models
With the likes of Netflix and Disney+ adopting ad-supported tiers, Omdia’s Adam Thomas sets out…
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Exclusive: CEE pay-TV revenues & subs to out-perform online video for next five years
Pay-TV revenues and subscriber numbers will continue to exceed those for online services in CEE…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Tracking Asia’s SVOD growth & hybrid potential
Ahead of the Asia TV Forum later this week, Omdia’s Tony Gunnarsson explores how viewers…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Why Lat Am originals are Netflix’s next big growth opportunity
In this collaborative report with PlumResearch, Omdia’s Tim Westcott digs into the numbers behind Netflix…
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TBI Weekly: Five key takeaways from the Media & Entertainment Leaders Summit
From TikTok overtaking the advertising revenue of Meta and YouTube combined, to Vice’s expansion in…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Exploring global production trends into 2023
Ahead of the Media & Entertainment Leaders Summit on Wednesday (see here), Richard Middleton hears…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Why streaming’s future lies in a hybrid model
Omdia analyst Max Signorelli explores how consumer demand is impacting advertising opportunities for streamers and…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: How India’s OTT bundling will drive market growth
India’s streaming market has blossomed as the industry’s various players embrace partnerships to build their…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: On the trail of North America’s TV & streaming trends for 2023
North America’s TV & online video ecosystems are changing fast, with consolidation, sports and TVOD…
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ITV, TikTok, Sky Studios, Banijay & DAZN join Media & Entertainment Leaders Summit
The Media & Entertainment Leaders Summit is fast approaching! This brand new event will give…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: How Amazon has stayed ahead of the AVOD game
While global streamers such as Netflix and Disney+ are readying themselves to add AVOD tiers…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Diving into Amazon’s unique streaming strategy
Amazon has been in the global streaming game for years but it has always trodden a…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Picking apart Western Europe’s pay-TV & OTT markets
Western Europe’s pay-TV and OTT operators secured more than 300 million subscribers in 2021, with…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Forecasting Eastern Europe’s pay-TV staying power
Online video is growing much faster in Eastern Europe than pay-TV services, but the latter…
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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 Tech & Analysis: Digging into the UK’s record linear declines
While the conversation about the future of content consumption rumbles along, TBI continues its dig…
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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 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 Tech & Analysis: Inside Netflix’s new revenue opportunities
With Netflix’s latest earnings report due next week, Matthew Evenson, research analyst at Omdia, delves…
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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 Tech & Analysis: Why MBC took a 30% stake in Greece’s Antenna Group
Middle East broadcast giant MBC Group recently invested almost $240m to take a stake in…
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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 Tech & Analysis: Why cost & immobility might hamper Disney+ in South Africa
Disney+ rolled into South Africa last month but the combination of a high price and…
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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 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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UK subscribers embrace SVOD in face of cost-of-living crisis
Overall SVOD subscription numbers are increasing in the UK, despite the country’s current cost-of-living crisis,…
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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 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…