M-GO, the digital entertainment service joint venture between DreamWorks Animation and Technicolor, has released insight into the streaming habits of US consumers which it says for the first time highlights the differences in streaming behaviour across gender lines, with women leading their male counterparts in certain metrics. The findings are the result of a recent national survey of 1,000 streaming [...]
InMobi, the mobile advertising network, has published its first global report into multi-screen viewing behavior. The study surveyed 15,000 mobile web users across 14 markets and provides insight into the ways in which consumers engage with content across multiple screens. The report uncovers that mobile now ranks first in media consumption among mobile web users, who now consume 108 minutes [...]
TV panel makers are betting on a high rate of growth for Ultra-High Definition (UHD) LCD TVs during the next four years. These companies expect to ship nearly 943,000 UHD LCD panels this year, up from less than 33,000 units in 2012, according to IHS. The next two years will see shipments ramp up even more quickly to 7.1 million [...]
Bringing an end to a full year of declines, global flat-panel television shipments rose slightly in the first quarter, paving the way for marginal growth in 2013, according to the “Monthly Worldwide FPD TV Shipment Data Report” from the IHS TV Systems Intelligence Service at information and analytics provider IHS. Global shipments of flat-panel televisions comprising liquid-crystal display (LCD) and [...]
Viacom has unveiled the results of “When Networks Network: TV Gets Social,” its multi-country study investigating the relationship between TV and social media usage. The findings uncovered three key types of motivations leading fans to engage in TV-related social media activities: Functional, Communal and Playful. The multi-country study involved social media diaries in the US, as well as online communities [...]
Independent research has shown Al Jazeera Arabic is firmly the most watched pan-Arab news channel. According to audience data produced for Q1 2013 by Ipsos and Sigma, the channel exceeds the combined total viewership of all other pan-Arab channels. Al Jazeera’s daily viewership across the MENA region was 34 per cent higher than all the other Pan-Arab channels combined. The [...]
Despite a huge desire to receive content and services through television, Smart TVs trail laptops, desktops and set-top boxes when it comes to consumers deciding how to connect to the internet through their sets, new research from YouGov shows. Results from the latest Connected TV Tracker show that half (50 per cent) of consumers like the idea of accessing online [...]
The content delivery network (CDN) service provider market was valued at nearly $3.6 billion in 2012. The global market for content delivery network hardware is expected to reach nearly $6.9 billion in 2017 after increasing at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.9 per cent, according to BCC Research. The US segment is the largest, accounting for $1.9 [...]
Providing superfast broadband services to the whole of the European Union could be much less expensive than previously estimated. This is the key conclusion of a new report from broadband specialists Point Topic. Earlier estimates suggested the cost could be as high as €270 billion. Point Topic puts the figure at about €80 billion, with nearly two thirds of that [...]
YahLive, the HD television satellite platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, SES, the DTH global satellite broadcast operator, and ChannelSculptor, a Dubai-based TV content and broadcast consultancy, have revealed that whilst MENA may be ahead of Europe in terms of HDTV demand as measured by high HDTV screen sales, increased channel growth and HDTV growth rates [...]
