The SVoD sector is growing rapidly, notes analyst firm Digital TV Research. There will be 1.161 billion SVoD subscriptions by 2025, up from 642 million at end-2019, according to its SVoD Forecasts by Vendor report. However, global players cannot
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has revealed how Covid-19 has shifted the nation’s TV viewing habits. In the early stages of lockdown, Virgin Media saw a 10 per cent increase in customers watching TV compared to pre-lockdown, with every customer watching an extra 41 minutes per day on average. Saturday March 28th was the busiest […]
Research from cross-platform evaluation specialist Comscore shows a continued year-over-year (YOY) increase in VoD transactions as millions of Americans seek entertainment during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, overall consumption for May 2020 declined compared to the previous month, suggesting that consumption may be gradually returning to pre-pandemic levels. Looking at YOY change by key genres, several […]
Parks Associates research shows the number of hours per week consumers spend watching online video has almost doubled from 3.6 hours per week in 2017 to nearly seven hours per week in 2020. The Set-top Box Innovations and Trends report also notes traditional pay-TV has declined from an adoption rate of 75 per cent to […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is calling on the government to introduce a new pro-competition regulatory regime to tackle Google and Facebook’s market power. The dynamic nature of digital advertising markets and the types of concerns identified by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in its market study are such that existing laws […]
The Covid-19 pandemic created a surge in home network usage and issues, and disrupted customer contact-centre operations for broadband service providers around the globe, according to the findings of a survey carried out by connected homes technical support platform Sweepr, examining broadband users’ recent customer support experiences and inclination to use digital self-service. The survey […]
TV Everywhere (TVE), services that mirror pay-TV content online, has been a staple offering for some time now. The Nordic operators have been pushing consumer awareness of TVE as this feature is a retention tool. According to Mediavision analysis, the awareness among the customers is increasing fast. Since 2016, consumer awareness of TV everywhere has […]
A new study from market intelligence specialist CivicScience finds that news consumption is up. In a survey of almost 3,100 US adults, more than half report following the news more frequently over the past four months. According to CivicScience, that’s not exactly surprising, given the global pandemic, mass demonstrations, and upcoming election, suggesting that it […]
Service providers accounting for nearly one-third of global pay TV subscribers have introduced integrated access to streaming services, according to Ian Olgeirson, Research Director for Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market. “Streaming service integration has become increasingly
TiVo has analysed consumer data from the US and Canada to track changes in an evolving media landscape during the Covid-19 pandemic In the latest TiVo Trends Report, the company has added its own internal viewership data to the report. More than 4,500 viewers were surveyed for the report. Key findings include: – Pay-TV subscribers […]