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Sky seeks UK growth with full online TV offering, amid carriage dispute with DiscoveryJanuary 26, 2017Pan-European pay TV operator Sky delivered a characteristically impressive set of results for the first six months of its financial year – but with some notable caveats. Despite adding 500,000 customers across Europe and increasing revenue for the period by £692 million to £6.41 billion, the rise in Premier League TV rights costs in the UK lowered operating profits, by 9% across the group and 18% in the UK and Ireland.
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Sky continues to reassert premium TV leadership with UHDTV service launchJuly 14, 2016UK pay TV market leader Sky today unveiled its long-awaited 4K ultra-high-definition (UHD) TV service, which the operator will launch on the Sky Q platform in its home market and Ireland on 13 August.Subscribers Only
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The outlook for Android STBsJuly 14, 2016This report provides a holistic view of Android OS across the pay TV and OTT retail STB landscape - focusing on the strategies and rationale of pay TV operators who have chosen Android implementations. The report also analyses the OTT STB market and the impact of Google's current vision of its Android platform.Subscribers Only
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Sky aims to re-establish itself as innovation leader with new Sky Q platformNovember 18, 2015UK pay TV market leader Sky today unveiled a new suite of premium products, grouped together under the Sky Q brand, designed to offer the most complete and joined-up TV viewing experience possible. The service will be made available to the operator’s satellite customers in the UK and Ireland in early 2016.Subscribers Only
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Sky maintains online advantage with pan-regional European HBO content dealNovember 18, 2015Sky and HBO have announced an expanded pan-regional output and production partnership which will make first-run HBO content exclusive to Sky in Germany, Austria and Italy–effectively bringing these territories in line with the UK and Ireland. This is the first pan-regional content deal negotiated by Sky since the launch of Sky Europe (Sky plc) in 2014, which effectively combined an audience of 20 million pay TV subscribers across these five countries.Subscribers Only
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Television Market Monitor – European pay TV Q2 2015 updateNovember 17, 2015Total pay TV subscribers increased by just 0.4% in Europe in Q2 2015, representing the slowest rate of growth in the region as a whole since Q3 2010. Pay TV declined in 11 markets in the quarter. In most of these cases, particularly the Nordic markets and the Netherlands, this was part of continuing trend of quarterly pay TV losses. In Romania however, the quarterly decline ended a period of consistent growth. Two of Europe's largest pay TV markets, the UK and Spain, exhibited some of the highest growth in the region in Q2 2015. The driving force was the same in both: IPTV.Subscribers Only
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Sports Rights: Operators Evolve the Pay TV Proposition as Costs Go UpAugust 21, 2015Premium sports rights remain of crucial importance to many pay TV operators’ businesses, for building and retaining customers of multiple products, not just TV. Rising costs are putting increasing pressure on service providers to maximise the value of rights, though. Innovating sports broadcasting for traditional pay TV customers is essential, but operators must also seek growth by unbundling access to their sports content, via more-flexible, standalone over-the-top (OTT) video services.Subscribers Only
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TalkTalk and Sky’s Ultra Fibre Optic service showcased on its new websiteAugust 03, 2015UK-based ISPs TalkTalk and Sky unveiled the first broadband service available on their collaborative fibre-to-the premises (FTTP) network in the city of York. The service, thought to be capable of speeds up to 1 Gbps, is known as Ultra Fibre Optic (UFO) and is marketed on a new website (www.ultrafibreoptic.co.uk) which launched in May 2015.Subscribers Only
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Production giants Banijay and Zodiak to merge in latest mega-indie dealJuly 29, 2015International content producers Banijay and Zodiak have agreed to merge, a move that will create a new producer group generating revenues of around $1 billion, according to the companies. The new entity will span most major European markets and will also have interests in the US and a handful of other key territories, including Australia, India and Russia.Subscribers Only
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Cross-Platform Television Viewing Time Report - 2014June 26, 2015Against a backdrop of growing concern of “cord cutting”, and the threat of OTT content traditional television viewing remained dominant in 2014. This Cross-Platform Television Viewing Time market monitor examines the key consumption trends in television viewing on both traditional and non-traditional platforms in 2014. IHS identifies the key factors behind changes in the average time spent viewing content on the traditional TV set, via DVR time-shifting and on-demand. The markets covered include the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Against a backdrop of growing concern of “cord cutting”, and the threat of OTT content traditional television viewing remained dominant in 2014. This Cross-Platform Television Viewing Time market monitor examines the key consumption trends in television viewing on both traditional and non-traditional platforms in 2014. IHS identifies the key factors behind changes in the average time spent viewing content on the traditional TV set, via DVR time-shifting and on-demand. The markets covered include the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.Subscribers Only
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Mediaset attacks Sky on its own turf by taking pay TV service to satelliteJune 11, 2015Italian broadcaster and pay TV operator Mediaset has unveiled an expansion strategy for its Mediaset Premium subscription TV business, revealing that it will begin offering the service - until now restricted to DTT – via satellite. The move represents a renewed challenge to market leader Sky Italia’s long-time dominance.Subscribers Only
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Netflix to become available in Southern Europe in October 2015June 09, 2015European expansion of Netflix continues with new countries, Spain, Italy and Portugal scheduled to launch in October 2015.Subscribers Only
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Telecom Italia set to move forward with its Next Generation plansMay 01, 2015Italian incumbent Telecom Italia (TI) reported full year profits in its annual results for the first time in 3 years. The telco posted a EUR 1.35 billion net profit in 2014 compared with a EUR 674 million net loss in 2013.Subscribers Only
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Now TV helps Sky turn in best Q1 growth in the UK and Ireland in 11 yearsApril 21, 2015Sky added 242,000 new customers in the quarter ending 31 March - close to 70% more additions than the same quarter of 2013. In its second quarterly set of results as a pan-European operator spanning five countries, Sky said it sold one million products and reported its strongest Q1 in the UK and Ireland in 11 years. In the three months since December 2014, total customers in the UK and Ireland increased by 1.08% to 11,877,000. This was a 4% increase on Q1 2014, and encompasses Sky’s entire product offering, including subscription OTT (over-the-top) TV service Now TV. The operator reported year-on-year growth of 30% for Now TV, which suggests it has been a key driver. Sky also saw improvements in its total customer base in Germany and Italy.
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Sky and Telecom Italia launch quad play serviceApril 17, 2015Sky Italia and incumbent Telecom Italia have unveiled what they claim to be Italy's first quad play service. Branded as TIM Sky, the new offer was launched yesterday and includes 150 Sky TV channels, fixed and mobile broadband internet as well as fixed and mobile phone calls.Subscribers Only
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Football rights go through the roof, againFebruary 20, 2015The latest auction for rights to the Premier League, which saw a 70% increase in the value of live rights from 2016/17, underlines the continuing importance of premium sports in driving pay TV. If there were any doubts about whether Sky could maintain its leadership of the UK pay TV market without exclusive rights to the league, they were removed by Sky’s willingness to hike its contribution to the new deal by 85% to prevent rival BT from increasing its share. The question now is how Sky will fund the new deal, and how BT’s pay TV strategy will be affected. The report also compares the UK to five other European markets to identify where live league football sits among the offerings of the leading pay TV platforms.Subscribers Only
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Sky reports Q4 customer growth in first combined set of resultsFebruary 04, 2015Across its three key businesses, Sky ended 2014 with an increased retail customer base of 20,607,000 – up 4.3% on Q4 2013. The entire pay TV group also experienced 4.9% year-on-year growth in subscription revenue to £4,842 million (€6 million) for the six months ending 31 December 2014. The group’s results were boosted both by strong performance in the UK and Ireland and the addition of its German and Italian businesses.
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Examining the market for TV EST: a multi-market perspectiveJanuary 09, 2015The sale of TV episodes and series through transactional online digital retailers (i.e. Apple and Google), has failed to match the pace of expanding movie availability geographically seen on a global scaleSubscribers Only
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YouTube enters crowded music subscription market with video bundleNovember 18, 2014Google-owned YouTube unveiled its new Music Key subscription service alongside a number of new music related features. The new Music Key subscription service: - Offers premium subscribers ad-free access to support YouTube music videos, enables offline audio and video caching, and background playback on YouTube’s mobile apps. - Has deals with the three major labels and hundreds of independents for audio and music video playback. - Launches in the US, UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Finland available for $9.99,(£9.99) per month – discounted to $7.99 (£7.99) for early adopters. Google is inviting a select group of users for a six-month free trial. - Includes a bundled subscription to Google Play Music (rebranded from Google Play Music All Access), Google’s existing on-demand service. YouTube Music Key subscribers will automatically gain access to Google Play Music and vice versa.Subscribers Only
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Fox and Apollo agree Endemol Shine joint ventureOctober 14, 2014US major 21st Century Fox and private equity firm Apollo Management have reached agreement to combine their production companies to create a `leading global multi-platform content provider`. Fox subsidiary Shine Group and Apollo-owned Endemol and Core Media will continue to operate as separate companies on completion of the deal, which is expected by the end of the calendar year. No financial terms were disclosed and the deal is subject to regulatory clearances.Subscribers Only
