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Public service television: Something for everyone
17 January 2022There are just under eight million adults in the UK who only have access to free-to-air television, relying on it as a vital source of entertainment, information and company
These viewers watch much more television, and depend heavily upon the diversity and quality of content delivered by the BBC and other public service broadcasters
Without further support for PSB content in all genres, for all audiences, there is a risk of leaving millions of people out of ever-rarer shared cultural conversations, speeding up feedback loops of viewer decline, and losing the core public value in the ecosystem as a whole
Ongoing supply difficulties for PlayStation and Xbox through 2022 and beyond will result in the install base for the generation being permanently impacted. It raises the question: if you can’t buy a console are they even relevant?
VR will stage a comeback this year, as Quest 2 has its highest sales ever, the category will find new appeal from game (and metaverse) developers. If a rumoured Apple VR/AR headset eventuates, expect white-hot interest
Netflix will make strides in its games service―but mostly behind the scenes to deliver a once in a decade transformation of the industry. Don’t rule out a critical and exclusive mobile hit
Alice Pickthall was quoted in Press Gazette on "From Apple News to Yahoo: What publishers need to know about news aggregators"
14 January 2022Alice said "Even though [aggregation] seems like a small portion of an entire revenue mix, those relationships are important because it helps dictate the way in which news will be consumed going forwards. It's the wider question of 'what's the relationship between tech and the publishers?’"
Alice, while supportive of aggregation innovation from within the industry, believes that the key news aggregation questions in the future will be driven by the 'big tech - publisher' relationship since aggregation needs eyeballs to work, she says.
She added "Do you make deals with the big platforms? Because that's probably where aggregators are heading for the future? Or do you just stick it out alone?"