Research from Ampere Analysis has shown that Western European commissioners are driving a new surge in format production fuelling a huge uptick in commissioning of formatted shows in the past year.
It may be bogged down in a power struggle between its biggest clubs and the other regarding the split of income but away from home the English Premier League is a team giving 110% as it expands its base beyond the domestic arena says Altman Solon’s 2020 Global Sports and News Survey.
Even in what was already a cut-throat arena, competition is intensifying in the US over-the-top market according to research from Parks Associates which calculates that that by the end of the third quarter of 2020, the number of OTT video services in the US had more than doubled since 2014.
Even though many speculated that the rash of launches of direct-to-consumer offers since autumn 2019 would lead to homogenisation and me-too products, research from Ampere Analysis has shown that for HBO Max and Peacock, the receptive audiences couldn’t be much more different.
The UK version of the Q3 2020 edition of Kantar’s Entertainment On Demand research review has found that in a market still dominated by Netflix, Amazon Prime Video has scooped the lion’s share of new subscriptions with Disney+ feeling pressure.
More bad news predicted for the US pay-TV arena as a study from The Diffusion Group calculates that by 2025 more than half of US broadband households will live without a multichannel video programming distributor.
