The BBC has formally announced its strategic partnership with YouTube. It says it will invest in fresh YouTube-first programming but provides little information about what form or extent this will take. It will also launch a BBC and YouTube creator skills and training programme for 150 partner creators and established television producers at BBC sites across the country.
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Netflix now has over 325 million paid subscribers around the world and says that it is serving an audience approaching one billion people. That is about one in eight people on the planet. Netflix was watched for over 190 billion hours in 2025. Total revenue was over $45 billion, with advertising revenue of $1.5 billion.
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Sony is planning to spin off its television and home entertainment business. Sony and TCL plan to establish a joint venture that will take on the Sony home entertainment business and continue to use its brand, with TCL holding 51% of the shares and Sony retaining the remainder. The aim to reach a binding agreement by the end of March 2026, and to commence operations a year later.
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The BBC is expected to announce plans to produce programmes specifically for YouTube. Media reports suggest that the broadcaster will produce programmes that will appear on YouTube before being released on its own online platforms. YouTube recently passed the monthly reach of the BBC and has become the first place many younger viewers turn to watch on a television screen.
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Everyone TV says that its Freely platform had a million users in the United Kingdom over the Christmas week. It last reported having half a million weekly users in September 2025, so that represents a doubling of users, albeit from a small base, but it is still only a small percentage of all viewers. It was also a period over which the public service broadcasters delivered dismal viewing figures.
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Over 80% of all estimated revenues from online video subscriptions and online video programme advertising went to players from the United States in 2024. The annual report from the European Audiovisual Observatory found that Comcast, Netflix, and YouTube were the top three players by audiovisual revenue, but European companies accounted for most of the revenues across the top 100 groups.
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