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Jun 3, 2024 | 
tbivision.com | Rob Moyser |Anthony Kimble |Matthew Evenson |Neil Friedman
Switzerland’s pay-TV market fell for a fourth consecutive quarter in 1Q24, with subscriptions down by 17,000 (-0.4%) to reach 3.8 million customers. Omdia’s Rob Moyser explores what is being done by the country’s key players to stem these losses. The country’s top pay-TV operators, Swisscom and Sunrise, were the main drivers of this decline with the former losing 10,000 customers, while the latter lost 6,000 customers.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
tbivision.com | Siobhán Crawford |Mark Layton |Rob Moyser |Nick Mavroidakis
Nick Mavroidakis, executive producer at UK factual indie Woodcut Media, explores how the past decade has witnessed a sea change in the way that filmmakers approach true crime programming and the way they present both victims and criminals. When I first began making the then newly commissioned series World Most Evil Killers in late 2016, it was my first venture into true crime. I decided to try to create a format that I’d enjoy watching and was easy for the viewer to follow.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
tbivision.com | Tony Gunnarsson |Matthew Evenson |Rob Moyser |Siobhán Crawford
With pan-European streamer SkyShowtime rolling out an ad tier across its 22 European markets tomorrow, Omdia’s Tony Gunnarsson explores how the move could help it compete with the global giants. Warszawianka and The Tattooist Of Auschwitz streamer SkyShowtime launched in September 2022, born as a joint venture between Comcast and Paramount.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
digitaltveurope.com | Rob Moyser
The most recent DAZN Group financial report shows revenue jumped by 41% to reach $2.2bn in 2022, chiefly due to subscription price increases and the domestic rights to Germany’s Bundesliga, Italy’s Serie A, and Spain’s LaLiga enticing new customers.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
tbivision.com | Rob Moyser |Adam Thomas |Daoud Jackson |Sharon Kong
The average linear viewing time in the UK has spent years in decline, but Omdia’s Rob Moyser explains how crime dramas and sporting events appear to be slowing down this trend. In 2023, linear TV viewing time fell for another successive year in the UK, decreasing by 6 minutes, reaching an average time of 2 hours and 4 minutes per person per year.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
digitaltveurope.com | Rob Moyser
Looking at the latest full-year data for 2022, the pay-TV and online market enjoyed another year of successive growth in Western Europe, with total subscriptions reaching 336.3m in 2022. Online video, once again, drove this uptake, adding 30.6m new customers in 2022—an increase of 15.8% over 2021. By contrast, pay TV continued its decline, dropping by 1.6% in the year after losing 1.8m customers across the region.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Rob Moyser |Matthew Evenson
As the industry reflects on the trials and tribulations of 2023, Omdia analysts Rob Moyser and Matthew Evenson look at where the industry heading and pick out the key trends to watch across the next 12 months. Since 2019, the pay-TV and online video markets in Europe have experienced different fortunes. Minor increases in Eastern European pay-TV subscriptions have not been enough to offset larger declines in Western European, resulting in a small but steady overall decline.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Rob Moyser |Matthew Evenson
Omdia’s Rob Moyser & Matthew Evenson explore the growth of Disney+’s ad-supported subscription tier and how it is expected to account for almost a quarter of total revenue for the Mouse House streamer by 2028. Loki and Ahsoka streamer Disney+ expanded its ad-supported subscription across Europe on 1 November, 2023, with the tier launching in the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark nearly a full year after successfully launching in the US.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
digitaltveurope.com | Rob Moyser
Omdia has seen two key trends that shaped cross-platform viewing time in 2022: a decline in linear viewing and the ascendance of nonlinear platforms such as online long form and social media video viewing. Despite these overarching themes, the state of play between certain markets remains resolutely different. Traditional linear TV viewing, for example, remains the dominant form of viewing in Australia and across most of Europe, including France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Rob Moyser |Adam Thomas |Samuel Nkwam
The way we watch content is changing fast as eyeballs shift from linear programming on TV’s to on-demand content online. Following last week’s deep dive on the US, this week Omdia analysts Rob Moyser, Adam Thomas and Samuel Nkwam explore what is changing in the UK. Omdia’s annual Cross-Platform Viewing Time Report analyses TV and video consumption trends across the US, Australia, and seven markets in Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK.
