Whenever Netflix’s latest financials are published, the topline data is always the stuff the press focuses on: revenue, content spend, subscriber numbers. Totally understandable, obviously: they tell a story about the health, performance and strategy of the company.

But what’s just as important – to me at least – …

There’s an idea that it’s only after a decade is over that one can – retrospectively – characterise it; distil 10 years into a few words (fairly or not).

So, the 60s might be Flower Power and/or civil action. The 70s: disco (and flares). The 80s: yuppies; get rich …

I was in bed most of the weekend, and Monday too, with a cold. And whilst I was mostly sleeping, or reading, I did manage to stream some shows, mainly on the marvel that is Amazon Prime Video. Why “marvel”? For a number of reasons but, just initially, I …

The TV and OTT world is thrillingly complex.

The glass-to-glass process, for example, the chain of events via which content gets from the first glass (the lens of the camera shooting the footage) to the last glass (the screen on which the viewer watches it) contains 30-40 links including …

Last week’s report that Paramount Skydance – which only closed its own merger in August – might be preparing a takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery got me thinking about how OTT leaders make big decisions.

It’s a question I’d asked my panellists during a session …

We’ve been doing the prep calls for this week’s OTT Question Time Online with Leah Hooper Rosa, of Warner Bros Discovery, and Julie Mitchelmore of Hearst Networks EMEA – where we’re talking about the makeup and approaches of modern streaming operations – and an interesting question came …

If you’re reading this you probably work in the OTT industry and on this side of the glass-to-glass process. That is, you’re likely nearer to the final screen on which the end-user watches the content rather than the first one – the camera – where the movie or TV …

YouTube overtakes ITV, but is broadcast TV really dying? We break down the latest Ofcom and BARB data with a critical eye.

Two bits of industry news this week got me thinking about perception, bias, nuance.

First, Ofcom published new recommendations about the prominence of public service content in the streaming age. In essence: as the media landscape shifts decisively to IP delivery, public service media (PSM) must remain easy to …

50 VOD Professionals – our list of the 50 most influential people working in the UK’s video-on-demand and OTT industry – is back for 2025!

Nominations are now open and we’d like to hear from you about the brilliant people that power VOD services all over the UK: the designers who …