Market & Commercial Dynamics

• Prime Video and DAZN Carve Up US Local Sports as Victory+ Collapses

  Prime Video and DAZN Carve Up US Local Sports as Victory+ Collapses Amazon took exclusive local streaming rights to six more NHL teams while Victory+ shut down, terminated its staff and entered receiv…

• VodafoneThree Launches Vodafone TV, Bundling Netflix, HBO Max and Freely

  VodafoneThree Launches Vodafone TV, Bundling Netflix, HBO Max and Freely VodafoneThree’s Vodafone TV, shipping in October on a Netgem-built 4K Android TV box, aggregates Freely’s 70+ live channels, Ne…

• JioHotstar Enters the West: India’s 500-Million-User Streamer Launches in the UK, Canada and Singapore

  JioHotstar Enters the West: India’s 500-Million-User Streamer Launches in the UK, Canada and Singapore JioHotstar, the Reliance-Disney joint venture with more than 500 million active users, has gone l…

• Barb: Disney+ Adds 1.1 Million UK Homes in One Quarter as Sky Bundling Becomes the Growth Engine

  Barb: Disney+ Adds 1.1 Million UK Homes in One Quarter as Sky Bundling Becomes the Growth Engine Barb’s Establishment Survey shows Disney+ jumping from 7.8 million to 8.9 million UK homes in Q2 2026 —…

• CMA Media Launches RMC+, Uniting BFMTV, RMC Channels and Brut on One Free Platform

  CMA Media Launches RMC+, Uniting BFMTV, RMC Channels and Brut on One Free Platform CMA Media launched RMC+ on 1 September, replacing RMC BFM Play with a single free streaming platform that bundles its…

• DPG Media Goes Streaming-First: Lubach Now Premieres on Videoland Two Hours Before Linear TV

  DPG Media Goes Streaming-First: Lubach Now Premieres on Videoland Two Hours Before Linear TV From Monday 31 August, new episodes of the flagship satire show Lubach stream Monday–Thursday at 21:00 on V…

• Shapiro at Edinburgh: YouTube Won TV — Now the Phone Is the New TV

  Shapiro at Edinburgh: YouTube Won TV — Now the Phone Is the New TV Evan Shapiro published his Edinburgh TV Festival Futureview address, arguing the industry has finally accepted that YouTube is televi…

• Apple TV Raises Prices Again: $14.99 a Month, Triple Its Launch Price

  Apple TV Raises Prices Again: $14.99 a Month, Triple Its Launch Price Apple lifted Apple TV from $12.99 to $14.99 per month in the US — its fourth increase in four years — with the annual plan rising …

• Iliad Posts €502 Million H1 Profit as Subscriber Base Grows to 52.5 Million

  Iliad Posts €502 Million H1 Profit as Subscriber Base Grows to 52.5 Million Iliad reported H1 2026 consolidated profit of €502 million — €365 million in Q2 alone, more than double a year earlier — wit…

• Roku, Fire TV, Google TV and Apple TV All Raise Prices as Memory Shortage Bites

  Roku, Fire TV, Google TV and Apple TV All Raise Prices as Memory Shortage Bites All four major streaming-device ecosystems have raised hardware prices, with Amazon lifting Fire TV devices by $10–$60 a…