Tom Harrington was quoted in The Times on Apple takes on Netflix: how the iPhone giant plans to carve out a piece of the streaming TV market. He said “Jay Hunt has been telling producers to be conscious of the Apple brand —they want high quality, but not risqué content. She’s been saying it’ll be like public-service broadcasting for the world, but not huge volume. It’s definitely not creating a new Netflix. They’re spending $1bn, which is a lot — but, compared to Netflix’s $12bn, not spectacular.”

Francois Godard was quoted in Financial Times on Battle for future of France’s Le Monde paper. He said “I’m very suspicious of a foreign billionaire trying to get a foothold in the western establishment through the ownership of media, especially through a newspaper such as Le Monde, which sets the tone and agenda of news in France and beyond."

Tom Harrington appeared on ITV News to discuss BritBox

Gill Hind appeared on BBC Radio 4 to discuss Global radio

Tom Harrington appeared on BBC Breakfast to discuss ITV and BBC plans to launch BritBox, a service to rival Netflix

Tom Harrington was quoted in The Times on BBC and ITV to charge for ‘Britflix’ streaming service. He predicted that it would be too late, too small, too reliant on archive shows and too modestly funded to achieve significant success. He asked: “Will households with Netflix and Amazon think they really need a third one?”

Julian Aquilina was quoted in The Times on Premier League on the defence, he said “When Facebook tried to buy cricket TV rights in India, it put in a huge bid and everyone thought it was really serious. It didn’t get them, but Facebook would have wanted those rights because that would have driven a huge increase in Indian users to the service. In the UK, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon don’t have this problem.”

Joseph Evans was quoted in The Times on Get lost, Alexa: most Britons shun digital assistants over spying fears, he said “The privacy concerns stem from the fact that these devices are constantly listening out for the ‘wake’ word. You have to trust Amazon or Google will be respectful of your privacy, but also that there are no bugs in the software. We’ve seen instances of Alexa waking by mistake and recording everything that a user says.”

Claire Enders was quoted in the Financial Times on Rupert Murdoch’s News UK takes a potshot at BBC radio, Claire said “He has an absolute ideological objection to public service broadcasting in general and the BBC in particular.” 

Matti Littunen was quoted in the Financial Times on Facebook: false friends "Great fakes, by definition, are invisible. No one can really quantify fake Facebook accounts — advertised online at $7 per pop. Necessary privacy safeguards could foster a proliferation of fakes, by impeding online identity checks. But there will always be one metric advertisers can rely on." as Matti Littunen, of Enders Analysis, points out: "Sales directly generated by Facebook ads. If these flag, it is time to worry about fakes"