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Key findings of Nielsen’s Total Audience Report for Q1 2016 include that SVOD and DVR penetration are now equal at 50 percent of U.S. TV households. Live and DVR/time-shifted TV has 226 million adult users per month, Nielsen says, just behind radio usage at 240 million users per month. Adults spend 4 hours and 31 minutes on live TV per day, down by 1 percent on Q1 2015. Live, DVR and time-shifted viewing is down to 6 hours and 37 minutes.

BUDAPEST: The conference track at NATPE Budapest today featured a “how-to” session dedicated to European co-productions, with executives from TANDEM Productions, Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft and Ministry of Content discussing the nuances of putting together successful co-productions with European partners.

BUDAPEST: World Screen has made a host of resources available so that you can make the most out of your time in Budapest, including a printable version of TV Listings, as well as the updated World Screen app for iOS and Android.

SANTA MONICA/LOS ANGELES: The film franchise Step Up, which grossed $650 million at the global box office, is getting a series spin-off on the YouTube Red subscription platform.

BUDAPEST: Best friends Tommy (David Schwimmer) and Dion (Jim Sturgess) open an upscale restaurant in their downtrodden Bronx neighborhood in Feed the Beast, a drama that Lionsgate Entertainment is presenting to buyers at NATPE Budapest.

LONDON: Via a new pact with technology outfit Mirriad, clients of Havas Media Group can digitally integrate a brand into video content from leading producers, with a deal already in place with VICELAND.

Parks Associates is urging media companies to develop advertising campaigns that are "integrated and nondisruptive to the viewing experience" for internet video watchers, releasing new data that shows that ad-blocking cost the digital publishing industries some $41.4 billion worldwide in 2015.

NEW YORK: Red Arrow’s chairman and CEO, Jan Frouman, who was recently appointed to ProSiebenSat.1’s executive board, talks to World Screen Newsflash about his disciplined approach to investing in companies and his strategy for forming partnerships that provide access to talent.

NEW YORK: World Screen's Program Price Guides, compiled by veteran media reporter and former distributor Bob Jenkins, are the most comprehensive reports available on what broadcasters are paying for acquisitions across Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific.

CANNES: Vice is gearing up to bring its TV, digital and mobile services to more than 50 additional markets as it steps up its global expansion plans.