Sky has launched Sky Glass Air as a lower cost sequel to Sky Glass. The television with integrated services from Sky receives them over the internet with no need for a satellite dish. It will be available from £6 a month, with subscriptions starting at £15 a month, including Sky TV, Netflix and Discovery+.
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Over 20 million homes in the United Kingdom have access to an online video subscription service. The number rose slightly from 20.0 million to 20.1 million in the first quarter of 2025, which is around 67.5% of nearly 30 million homes or just over two thirds, but it has basically levelled off at around that proportion.
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A new Freenet TV stick is available in Germany, using a USB connection. It plugs into compatible televisions and replaces the need for a conventional credit card size conditional access module.
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YouTube accounted for 12.4% of total television viewing in the United States in April. That is getting on for an eighth of all television viewing in the country. It is the highest share of television viewing so far for YouTube, according to the Gauge from Nielsen. Online video also saw its highest share of viewing, at 44.3% of all television viewing, almost as much as all other measured television viewing.
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Video piracy, especially live sport, is an increasing challenge. Unauthorised distribution of services is enabled by dodgy software on low-cost hardware like the Amazon Firestick. A report by research firm Enders Analysis accuses big tech companies of ambivalence and inertia in addressing the problem.
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Nearly four out of ten users of YouTube around the world are now watching traditional television and movie programming through the platform. Documentaries are among the top five most watched genres, viewed by a quarter of YouTube users in a month. Long-form viewing on YouTube is increasingly on the living room screen.
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