Launched in September, 2021, Side+ is an exclusive membership club for Sidemen fans all around the world. Members will have access to exclusive content, giveaways, meet and greets and be part of the community.

We wanted to find out who the UK’s leading women are in streaming media, but we couldn’t find an answer. With streaming our favourite shows becoming increasingly popular, we decided to pull a list together of some of the women who are leading the way in UK streaming media. From Apple to Britbox, Amazon to Netflix, here are our top seven female leaders.

We took a look at some of the most popular streaming services in the UK (three services from British broadcasters like iPlayer, and three international streaming giants, like Netflix) to check out their accessibility features in a bid to find the best.

In the past two weeks, Sony has successfully brokered an exclusive first-pay-window licensing deal with Netflix, followed quickly by Disney announcing that it, too, had a content licensing deal with Sony. We look at the bigger picture of these major industry moves.

In the first quarter of 2021, Twitch generated 6.3 billion watching hours in total - a new milestone for Twitch as that’s a huge 97% increase compared to the first quarter of 2020. In other words, its viewership almost doubled in one year. Its biggest competitors, YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming don’t even come close.

Taking a look into the minds behind it and the exciting content coming this year, will AppleTV+ pip its competitors to the post and become an everyday platform we use to stream our favourite shows?

Nebula is a new video subscription platform created by YouTubers for YouTubers. Nebula’s aim is to give creators a space to experiment with videos that might not work so well on YouTube, and it allows creators’ fans to access content exclusive of YouTube.

One aspect missing from the viewer experience over the past year has been the common social pastime of cinema trips and binge watching box sets with friends and family. This has opened the metaphorical door for ‘watch party’ options, providing an opportunity to watch your favourite shows virtually alongside friends and family.

While there is no way of knowing which events from the rather unusual 2020 Formula 1 season will be included in Series 3 of Drive to Survive, the Netflix F1 hit, a few ‘sneaky’ pictures online and teasing scoops suggest that the content might once again be chosen to spark debates - and controversies.

In just over a year, Disney+ has amassed a total of $3.5 billion in revenue and 100 million subscribers - already surpassing its 2024 goal. In other words, it’s three years ahead of schedule. No surprise, then, that Disney has decided to invest in its streaming empire by adding TV network Star to its service.

While Netflix continues to dominate the binge-watch culture and Disney+ does the complete opposite by releasing WandaVision one episode per week, YouTube Originals has shifted its strategy to stress its own strengths – music, celebs and kids content. Here’s a run down of how it’s going.

BritBox, the lovechild of the BBC and ITV, has captured audiences that the likes of Netflix and Amazon haven’t been able to, and it plans to roll out in 25 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa. Can BritBox outfox its rivals?

Not to be confused with the overnight television service run by the BBC in the early ‘90s, BBC Select is a new North American streaming venture managed by the BBC’s commercial subsidiary, BBC Studios. So why does the BBC think North America needs another streaming service?

On its release, the Netflix series, Bridgerton, became the number one ranked title globally and was watched by an astounding 82 million member households. So how exactly did Bridgerton do this well?

If you’re always looking for the next great series to binge-watch perhaps you need to make room for Struum.

Using a ‘ClassPass’ business model, this new streaming platform aims to aggregate the lesser known (250!) streaming services and their content in order to give them an opportunity in a market controlled by a handful of streaming giants.

Seven of the top ten most watched films of 2020 were on Disney+. Amazon Prime has a staggering 65,504 titles compared to Netflix’s 7,177. And despite reaching 200 million subscribers, Netflix added fewer subscribers in the third quarter than it had in the last four years. So how did the streaming giants fare in a pandemic fuelled 2020?

When TIDAL was first released it was widely discussed and debated because it aimed to revolutionise what Spotify and Apple Music had done to the music industry. So where did it go wrong? 

Following their mantra, ‘Watch, Connect, Take Action,’ WaterBear has built a streaming service around sustainability, climate action, biodiversity, communities, and so much more. The service provides access to inspirational content that empowers its members to learn more and take action for a more sustainable future. 

Thanks to streaming services satiating our desire for instant gratification, we are used to getting what we want instantly. What this means is, if you want to listen to ‘Rumours’ by Fleetwood Mac, you no longer have to wait to buy the physical copy – you can just search it on your streaming service and listen to it immediately. That rush of serotonin caused by getting something you want, creates a drive and hooks you in. 

The pandemic has stopped many things such as meeting friends, going to the gym and even watching your favourite band live. However, on that last point, it may surprise you to learn that English pop band, McFly, have sought out an innovative solution. 

They’ve launched a subscription service called McFly Total Access where fans can access exclusive content and live-stream performances from the band.