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The UK is declining TV Licenses for Video Streaming Services 04 February 2019

A recent report has claimed that around 860,000 Britishers have canceled their costly TV licenses in the last two years because of the popularity of Netflix and the likes. The TV licensing expansion on 798,000 users had stopped from 2016. … Continue reading

iPlayer ranked UK’s 3rd popular brand, Netflix 6th 30 January 2017

According to a recent YouGov BrandIndex’s list of UK’s top 10 brands, the OTT service BBC iPlayer has been ranked third and the SVOD service Netflix took a new entry into the sixth position. YouTube made it to the ninth position … Continue reading

SVOD Catches up with Free services in UK 22 September 2016

UK has always been lagging behind from US and Canada when it comes to the adoption of subscription video streaming services like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. However, according to a recent research carried out by RBC Capital Markets, Netflix has been … Continue reading

iPlayer boosts 37% due to Summer Sports 09 September 2016

BBC, the video streaming platform has reported an increase of 37% in summer iPlayer compared to the same period in last year, thanks to the major sporting events this year. The broadcaster experienced an average of 16 million unique browsers a … Continue reading

Which are UK’s favourite TV on-demand services? 09 August 2016

According to a recent Communications Market Report by Ofcom, 6 out of 10 UK’s TV audience chooses ‘video on demand’ services for watching TV. BBC iPlayer stayed on top by acquiring 32% audience in second half of 2015, the share … Continue reading

Italians Prefer More TV, Brits Settle For OTT 03 September 2015

  Italians watch more linear TV than any other country in Europe – about 4 hours and 20 minutes per day – but the British lead the pack in online and personal video recorder viewership, according to a recent study … Continue reading