{"id":411694,"date":"2025-11-29T00:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411694\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:21:14","slug":"australia-passes-new-svod-content-spend-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411694\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Passes New SVOD Content Spend Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/australia-passes-new-svod-content-spend-law.jpg\" data-caption=\"Warner Bros. Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/australia-passes-new-svod-content-spend-law.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"australia-passes-new-svod-content-spend-law\"\/><\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n<p>The Australian parliament has officially passed new local content quotas that will affect global streaming services with more than one million subscribers in that market.<\/p>\n<p>Services with over one million Australian subscribers are now legally required to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure \u2013 or 7.5% of their revenue \u2013 on local originals.<\/p>\n<p>Failing to comply with the rules will see streamers fined up to ten times their annual revenues in Australia.  There are no restrictions on what the content itself is, and so it could include dramas, comedies, children\u2019s shows, docs, or arts and educational programs.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Arts Minister Tony Burke says in a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have Australian content requirements on free-to-air television and pay television, but until now, there has been no guarantee that we could see our own stories on streaming services. Streaming services create extraordinary shows, and this legislation ensures Australian voices are now front and centre. Now, no matter which remote control you\u2019re holding, Australian stories will be at your fingertips.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Six services pass the one million threshold \u2013 Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Stan, Paramount+ and Binge, with HBO Max likely having passed it in recent months.  In all, the SVOD sector is growing 5% annually, with households now boasting an average of 3.3 services.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadbandtvnews.com\/2025\/11\/27\/australia-passes-landmark-local-content-spend-law-for-streamers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BroadbandTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Pictures The Australian parliament has officially passed new local content quotas that will affect global streaming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":411695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,172961,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-411694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-bigslider","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115630132171367846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}