Enders News

Claire Enders was quoted in the Financial Times on Pressure mounts on ITV after Jeremy Kyle show death. She said “Markets may have gotten spooked, but investors and ITV are more concerned about broader issues that the whole industry is facing. Jeremy Kyle is bigger in the Daily Mail than in reality. People are assuming they have lost a bigger star than they actually have.”

Alice Enders was quoted in The Telegraph on How blockbuster deals and booming theme parks keep Disney on top. She said “The quality of the slate is really driven by previous acquisitions. Its share of the box office had already risen relentlessly and ... the Fox consolidation has really strengthened its ability to contest the cinema space.”

Francois Godard was quoted in the Financial Times on France’s Iliad to raise €2bn by selling mobile towers to Cellnex. He said “Selling towers to Cellnex makes sense, the French group was taking advantage of the fact that financial markets are ready to give a higher value to towers when they are set aside in a separate corporate shell than when they are buried in an operator’s balance sheet. But it does not change the Iliad business model.”

Douglas McCabe was quoted in the Financial Times on Guardian owner hits profit benchmark after decades of losses. He said “The leadership team has done very well to bring this phase over the line, but the next phase, covering both the sustainability of the business and a core audience retention, will be more complex and challenging.”

Joseph Evans was quoted in Wired on Facebook's huge earnings are a reminder it has no competition. He said  "Even if one of these factors were to slow down, Facebook would still be be able to ramp up the growth of the other. The company's real strengths come from the fact that it has an extremely broad base of advertisers – seven million active advertisers as of this year. Facebook is managing this impressive trick of combining a consistent flow of negative press with amazing financial and solid operational results." 

Tom Harrington was quoted in BBC News on Netflix to trial showing top 10 lists to UK users. He said "The point of the release of this data isn't for granular understanding as to what people are actually watching on the service, it is for promotional purposes. Given its escalating spend on original content, Netflix is always keen to push the narrative that originals are what drive the service. The list will disguise what is actually watched on the service, which is predominantly acquired content. It will likely be dominated by newly-released originals, the demand for which often quickly declines soon after release."

Alice pickthall was quoted in Digiday on UK publishers turn to women's sports as untapped growth area. She said "That inconsistent coverage makes normalizing women’s sport difficult, these new ventures by The Telegraph and others demonstrate an important shift in thinking. Not only that, but being ahead could be a useful way for a publisher to differentiate. So far, no major U.K. [traditional] publisher has a dedicated landing page for women’s sport, and as a result The Telegraph ranks first on Google, so there is certainly a first-mover advantage.” 

Julian Aquilina was quoted in Variety on How High-End Series Attract Millennial Viewers, Even on Linear TV. He said ‘"Game of Thrones is a global phenomenon with youth audience on linear TV, every time it returns, the show gets bigger and bigger. Clearly with the right shows you can still attract young audiences. It’s just that a lot more of those shows are being bought up by SVOD services.”

Francois Godard was quoted in Variety on French TV Producers Will Make Dramatic Entrance at MIP. He said “The main channels used to program a lot of French cinema, but [today] French cinema has more narrow appeal than before, so they had to look at other program genres, and they were forced to give more prominence to series.“There’s a historical barrier between the worlds of TV production and film production, and this barrier — as in the U.S. — is a bit more porous now. It’s more accepted and common to have film actors and film directors doing series, and in France that helps.”