Read up on the full press release here with commentary from Mediavision’s senior analyst Adrian Grande.

Read up on the full press release here, with commentary from Mediavision’s senior analys Fredrik Liljeqvist.

The US may introduce a ban on TikTok. Last Friday, US lawmakers instructed Google and Apple to prepare to remove TikTok from their app stores by January 19, 2025, unless its parent company ByteDance sells the platform by that date.

On December 6th, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) rejected TikTok’s legal challenge to a law requiring the social media platform’s divestment. The law could result in the app being banned in the US, unless its Chinese owners sell the platform by January 19.

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance subsequently filed an emergency motion on December 9th, requesting a temporary injunction to delay the law. In response, the US Justice Department urged the court to deny ByteDance and TikTok’s motion, arguing that they “offer no valid reason to pretermit the Supreme Court’s prerogative to decide how proceedings before that Court should play out.

This led up to the event last Friday, when letters from US lawmakers were sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook, emphasizing that the companies must take the necessary steps to comply with the law. In separate letters to the tech giants’ CEOs, the House Committee stated that they “must take the necessary steps to ensure it can fully comply with this requirement by January 19, 2025”.

Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, or ByteDance sells TikTok by January 19, app stores will be required to remove TikTok and block updates. While current users may initially still have access the app, it could eventually become unusable due to the lack of updates.

President-elect Donald Trump, who originally proposed a TikTok ban during his previous administration, could offer a lifeline to TikTok, however. In November, news outlets reported, citing sources, that Trump is expected to take measures to retain the video streaming platform’s presence in the US when he returns to office.

“We are targeting the audience who goes to the cinema once or twice a month and who want to go more often, not those who go once a year. The idea is to create a community for cinema lovers. There will be a website and bring-a-friend-offers”, said Katrina Mathsson, one of the initiators of Cineville in Sweden to DN.

The price is set at around SEK 300 per month, which will give subscribers unlimited cinema visits. The launch is planned for some time around March and April 2025. By the end of 2025, Cineville is expected to have 3,500 subscribers, and within five years, the goal is to reach 10,000 subscribers.

Apparna avslöjar svenskarnas dåliga vanor – Dagens Industri

Research: Half Norwegian households now have streaming bundles via operators – Advanced Television

2025 preview: Who drives scripted commissioning next year? – Nordisk Film & TV Fond

Här är ljudmarknadens största utmaningar 2025 och framåt – Dagens Media

Styrkebesked från svenska strömningsmarknaden – Dagens industri

Report: Ad tiers boost streaming subs in Sweden – Advanced Television

Hvod driver tillväxt på streamingmarknaden – Dagens media

Tiktok störst bland unga – det blir konsekvenserna – Expressen

Stadig flere velger strømming med reklame: – Lar seg ikke skremme – Kampanje

Strømming med reklame fortsetter å vokse kraftig i Norge – KOM24

TikTok has over 1 million daily viewers in Sweden – Broadband TV News

Tiktok har over én mio. daglige brugere i Sverige – Mediawatch

Growth in Sweden for podcasts and streaming – Podnews