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Consumer Behaviour

Research: 1.5m Nordic homes plan to get Disney+

Disney+ will debut in the Nordics on September 15th and Mediavision research reveals that the interest for the service is already strong. Close to 1.5 million Nordic households claim they have plans to sign up. If they follow through on their plans, it would immediately make Disney one of the largest SVoD services in the […]

June 23, 2020

Research: Tech issues slowing online video take-up 

From Shakespearean performances to pub drinks with friends, it seems any activity can be made virtual now, yet streaming issues may be causing us to shy away from these resources. This is according to research on How Video is Changing the World from content delivery provider Limelight Networks. Globally, 14 per cent of adults are […]

June 23, 2020

Survey: Lockdown raises data privacy & broadband concerns

While Covid-19 lockdown has prompted a positive shift in UK households’ digital activity, concerns around data privacy and security breaches alongside broadband reliability issues have created underlying levels of anxiety – according to an EY report. The survey of 2,500 UK consumers, conducted between May 27th and June 1st, outlines the challenges and opportunities facing […]

June 22, 2020

Survey: Average UK viewer paying £25/month on TV in lockdown

Netgem TV has recently completed a survey with over 750 respondents to explore the different ways in which consumers across the UK and Ireland are turning to television to escape from the daily routine in lockdown. The study confirms a surge in

June 18, 2020

Data: Lockdown’s leap in broadband traffic

UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has published new network data which reveals the dramatic impact of the coronavirus lockdown on how customers using their broadband services. The network insights reveal how a ‘new normal’ has been established over the emergency period, during which Virgin Media customers have been using significantly more data. Since lockdown started, […]

June 18, 2020

Research: Pandemic sees Brits more positive towards tech

Research from multiplay telco Vodafone and Trajectory suggests people across the UK feel more positively towards technology now than before the pandemic, with the oldest age group surveyed (aged 72+) reporting the biggest increase of almost 20 per cent. When it comes to staying in touch, younger people favoured social media; while for the oldest […]

June 18, 2020

Report: Social media, YouTube fuel Covid-19 conspiracies

Research from King’s College London and Ipsos Mori reveals that people who get their news from social media are more likely to believe in such coronavirus conspiracy theories. In an online survey of over 2,000 people carried out in late May, 30 per cent thought that the coronavirus was created in a lab, up from […]

June 18, 2020

Forecast: Instagram to overtake Twitter as news source

Instagram looks set to overtake Twitter as a news source. The usage of the photo-sharing social media app as a news source has doubled since 2018, according to the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report. The trend is strongest among young people, with

June 16, 2020

Forecast: 190m 5G subs by year-end

Communications technologist Ericsson expects the global number of 5G subscriptions to top 190 million by the end of 2020 and 2.8 billion by the end of 2025. These forecasts are included in the June 2020 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, along with projections for data traffic growth, and regional subscriptions. The report also looks

June 16, 2020

Research: Disney+ UK’s 3rd-largest SVoD

Just weeks after its launch in the UK, Disney+ emerged in April as the country’s third-largest SVoD player, with 4.3 million subscribers. Disney’s SVoD service, which started operating in the UK on March 24th, already carved out a 16.8 per cent share of subscribers by the end of April, according to survey data from

June 11, 2020