Advanced Television

Research from consumer insights platform Attest finds that many of the assumptions underpinning media planning simply don’t reflect how people actually consume content today. Based on nationally representative surveys of 1,000 UK and 1,000 US adults, alongside five years of tracking data in each market, Attest’s 2026 attention economy report finds that some of the […]

California’s attorney general has axed scheduled talks with representatives of Paramount over the company’s planned $111 billion (€95.08bn) takeover of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). The parties were due to discuss a potential settlement of California’s lawsuit today [August 24th] that is seeking to block the merger. It was cancelled late on August 23rd by Attorney […]

The largest global subscription streaming platforms are reducing the size of price increases over time, according to Ampere Analysis. Across Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video (via Amazon Prime), average price rises have fallen from 24 per cent of the previous subscription price in 2023/24 to 14 per cent in 2025/26. Key findings: Average price increases […]

Across movie advertisements aired between May 1st and August 12th 2026, broadcast advertising declined sharply, while CTV impressions climbed, according to analysis from AdImpact. In summer 2025, there were 192K broadcast airings and 15.2 billion CTV impressions. This summer, broadcast airings fell to 93.6K, a decline of more than 50 per cent, while CTV impressions […]

A man from Prescot in Merseyside has been handed a 32-month sentence suspended for three years for running Ozzy Streams, an illegal IPTV service offering unauthorised access to content belonging to Sky, TNT Sports and the Premier League. Craig Austin, of Keats Avenue, Whiston, pleaded guilty in July to three counts of making or supplying […]