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Thanks to significant investment and a focus on digital transformation, New Statesman sees highest paid circulation for 40 years, with subscriptions revenue also up 77% over three years. With the title set to launch a new website in the coming months.
LONDON, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ New Statesman has announced digital subscription growth of 75% in just one year, with subscription revenues also up 77% in three years following significant investment in its journalism and the launch of new brands and associated digital services.
Registered users on the New Statesman website rose by 83% to more than 200,000 from January 2020 to February 2021, and 86% of New Statesman s circulation is now paid for. The New Statesman website has reached the highest level of audience growth since the introduction of a paywall in early 2018 and it now attracts around 2 million unique users a month. By the end of January this year, the New Statesman s paid circulation had reached 34,451. Print su
| 10 February 2021
Just days after revealing the strength of the subscription video-on-demand market in the region as regards the vast array of services on offer, the European Audiovisual Observatory has revealed the financial robustness of the SVOD arena.
The report focuses on the evolution of the SVOD, transactional video-on-demand (TVOD) and advertising-financed and broadcaster video-on-demand markets (AVOD/BVOD) markets in the European Union (EU28) and their impact on the traditional audiovisual markets.
The report revealed that for the period 2010 – 2020, that is a European Union sill including the UK, the paid VOD markets saw SVOD and TVOD revenues increasing from €388.8 million in 2010 to €11.6 billion in 2020. The SVOD arena was the key driver for this growth, “exploding”, said the European Audiovisual Observatory, from €12 million in 2010 to €9.7 billion in 2020.
| 10 February 2021
Ramping up the rollout of the subscription streaming service in the two countries following its launch direct-to-consumer and on Sky Q in November 2020, discovery+ is now available on Samsung Smart TVs and Fire TV devices in the UK & Ireland.
discovery+ features what its owner Discovery claims is the industry’s largest-ever content library for a new streaming service with more than 55,000 episodes. Content is drawn from Discovery’s flagship brands, the BBC’s Natural History collection, A&E Networks and Group Nine among others. The service also offers a range of exclusive, original series across popular, passion verticals in which Discovery brands have a strong leadership position, including lifestyle and relationships; home and food; true crime; paranormal; adventure and natural history; as well as science, tech and the environment, and a slate of high-quality documentaries.
The 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region are set to have 32.65 million subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) customers by 2026, up from the 14..