Tag: COVID-19

Producers of high-end scripted content are facing delays of 12 months or more due to COVID-19, with unscripted titles increasingly filling in the gaps in schedules, according to Ampere Analysis.

Over the next five years, the COVID-19 pandemic will cost the worldwide entertainment business $160 billion, according to Ampere Analysis.

The supply and release of new content will be disrupted well into 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Ampere Analysis.

Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services will reach $1.6 trillion this year, just 0.8 percent lower than 2019, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker.

World Screen recaps a range of studies about how COVID-19 is accelerating changes in media consumption.

New data from GlobalWebIndex (GWI) indicates that 40 percent of U.S. and U.K. respondents said they were considering purchasing new subscription services during the COVID-19 shutdown.

The Australian government has released a range of initiatives to assist the media sector as it copes with the COVID-19 pandemic, including emergency suspension of content quotas this year.

Streaming globally was up by more than 20 percent in March amid stay-at-home measures, according to Conviva.

Strategy Analytics has revised its global SVOD projections as stay-home measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic drive an increase in subscriber take-up.

Concerns about COVID-19 and subsequent social-distancing measures could lead to a 60 percent increase in media consumption, according to Nielsen.