ITV’s new streaming service comes when the UK AVOD market is ripe for more competition. But the broadcaster needs to answer two important questions.

Will ITVX’s “futureproof plan” rival the likes of Disney+ and Netflix?

The content budget for ITV’s new streaming service will increase to £1.35bn as it prepares to launch before the World Cup in November.

ITV has announced it will launch the UK’s first integrated advertising and subscription-funded platform later this year.

The Media Leader explores the rationale behind WBD’s move and how the new networks businesses could grow organically, while Disney believes it will make its own unified proposition more competitive.

The broadcaster announced two other commercial innovations at its Showcase event in Manchester: Lead Gen Ads and YouTube Affinities.

Five months after ITV and YouTube inked a new partnership deal to bring full episodes of ITV programmes to the platform, the broadcaster is seeing incremental audience reach without cannabalisation, and appealing to more FELT brands.

Guy Bisson at Ampere Analysis believes the future of partnership and M&A will cross-match global distributors, regional content providers, global content providers and regional distributors. Such deals will help traditional media survive a world where geographic licensing and traditional windowing are being killed by streaming.

Following the recent ruling on Meta’s privacy intrusion, Thinkbox’s new CSO explores how advertising can deliver relevance without the stalker vibes.

Independent analyst Ben Keen has outlined significant changes to the way global streamers conduct their business and the content they offer. In all cases, they are drawing from a playbook that served pay-TV operators and channel owners well for decades.