Category Archives: Netflix
SVOD Disruption – Could DTT be the Antidote?
Despite some notable mass audience success, with a much-anticipated Royal Wedding and popular 2018 FIFA World Cup, it has been yet another tough year for schedule-based television in the UK. The annual BARB measured Individuals 4+ consolidated (Live + 7-Days) … Continue reading →
The Rise of SVOD and the Future of TV
It’s finally happened, in late September 2018 BARB released the first instalment of Project Dovetail, with census level device-based data (which BARB has been publishing separately on their website since September 2015) being fused with people-based BARB panel data to … Continue reading →
The Death of Television 2 – Blame it on the Weather!
A much-anticipated Royal Wedding and successful 2018 FIFA World Cup (with England reaching the semi-finals for the first time since 1990) have resulted in some notable mass audience success stories for schedule-based television in recent months. The 4th series of … Continue reading →
The DTT Platform – Succeeding in the Face of the SVOD Challenge
In my previous note I discussed how 2017 was another challenging year for schedule based television in the UK, with the SVOD services (Netflix, Amazon, Now TV, etc.) in particular taking a bigger slice of the total video viewing pie, … Continue reading →
The Death of Television – Is it Finally Happening?
Although year-on-year schedule based UK television viewing, as measured by BARB’s consolidated (Live + 7-days catch-up) Total TV audience, has been in decline since 2012, it was beginning to show signs of levelling off with a very notable slowing in … Continue reading →
EPG Prominence and Channel Performance – It Still Matters
In the late noughties, I was at a conference where one of the delegates noted how EPGs (electronic programme guides) with their ordered lists of channels and schedule information were so archaic that they might as well be considered ‘Victorian’, … Continue reading →