SVoDs, new norms and the challenge for public service media

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ID7501031
AuthorsGillian Doyle (0000-0003-1817-0684, ISNI: 000000012193314X University of Glasgow, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume14
Issue3
Pages287-302
Publication date2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Digital Media & Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2516-3523 • E-ISSN: 2516-3531
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/jdmp_00130_1
OpenAlexW4389194886
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited20

The growing popularity of subscription video-on-demand services (SVoDs) has transformed the European media landscape, re-shaped consumption habits, fragmented audiences and made it more difficult for public service media (PSM) organizations to engage especially younger audiences. This article analyses challenges, such as competing against the immense commissioning power of SVoDs, faced by PSM. Focusing particularly on the UK experience, it highlights how, despite the growing prevalence and popularity of SVoDs and their role in promoting wider circulation for material drawn from a variety of international sources, PSM organizations are still recognized by audiences and by television programme-makers as being pivotal to provision of certain sorts of quintessentially local content. As this article argues, the rise of global streamers has both accentuated and altered the ways in which PSM deliver public value, effectively re-positioning PSM as elements of what might be seen as critical media infrastructure

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