Seven West Media has released the entire 2018 season of Home And Away – all 228 episodes – on its BVOD platform, 7plus.
Seven’s BVOD platform has also revealed that in 2019, the series My Kitchen Rules season 10 and House Rules season 7 will see both series stack on 7plus following the broadcast premiere of each new episode.
Home And Away joins other shows on 7plus including The Good Doctor, 9-1-1, Bride and Prejudice and The Resident, together with all six seasons of Packed To The Rafters and 14 seasons of Blue Heelers.
There are over 7,500 titles to watch.
7plus recently claimed to be Australia’s leading commercial free-to-air (CFTA) BVOD service, with a its lead confirmed by OzTAM Video Player Measurement (VPM). In November it secured a 47.0% share of viewing of the three CFTA BVOD platforms.
Seven’s head of scheduling Brook Hall said: “Adding the whole 2018 run of Home And Away to 7plus is the latest demonstration of our commitment to giving viewers more of the best content to watch whenever they want to. Fans will be able to binge-watch Home And Away on 7plus this summer…whenever, wherever and on any device.”
All 228 episodes of Home and Away from 2018 are now available on 7plus.
Home And Away’s 30th Anniversary year highlights
2108 facts from the global soap hit which chronicles life at Summer Bay:
• Reaches 2.3 million broadcast viewers nationally each week (1.5 million metro viewers)
• Broadcast telecast averages 1.1 million combined (metro + regional) viewers, with 684,000 metro viewers
• Ranked in the top 3 Aussie regular dramas for year to date in key demos (P25-54, P16-39 & P18-49)
• Delivers more broadcast viewers than 10’s Neighbours
• Delivers a Total Video Audience of 1.2 million viewers each episode – saw +13% uplift when adding broadcast timeshift and online viewing (Live + VoD) to Overnight broadcast viewing
• Increased VPM (Live + VoD) audience by more than twofold this year
The first episode back on 29th January 2018 was the highest ratings episode of the year with 1.4 million combined (847,000 metro).
Source: OzTAM (Metro), RegionalTAM (Regional). Total Individuals. Combined: Metro + Regional. Home and Away (Seven): Wks 5-49 2018 (excl. Easter/Comm Games). Network National Reach Estimate based on Metro + Regional for consecutive 5 minutes viewed of H&A. Ave AUD excl. any repeats/encores. Metro Merged Regular Aussie Drama Ranking: Wks 5-49 2018 (multiple programme descriptions merged into one description, excl. overseas/special/event TV drama). Delivers more audience based on Combined Ave AUD. Seven’s Total Video = Broadcast Overnight (Live + As Live) + Broadcast Timeshift (Cons 28) + VPM (Live + VoD, 28 days). Data: Consolidated (Live + As Live + TSV28) where applicable. Digital: OzTAM (National) VPM.
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