Global SVoD subscriptions will increase by 519 million between 2019 and 2025 to 1.161 billion – or up by 81 per cent, according to the Global SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The total will climb by 170 million in 2020 alone. Five global platforms will have 640 million paying SVoD subscribers […]
The top 10 service providers in the United States collectively lost 2.33 million television subscribers in the first quarter of 2020, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. All of the top 10 service providers
Spaniards are not happy with pay-TV and regard their service as being the worst for lack of clarity in bills and prices. The latest Panel de Hogares survey carried out by the CNMC reveals that 17.8 per cent of Spanish homes are “little or nothing satisfied” with the pay-TV service in the last quarter of […]
Ahead of the release of its report, COVID-19 Impact on Communications and Entertainment, market research and consulting company Parks Associates predicts consumer usage of TVoD (transactional video on-demand) service will increase significantly in 2020. The firm’s OTT Video Market Tracker reports that in Q1 2020, 14 per cent of US broadband households had used a […]
Global streaming media intelligence specialist Conviva has released its quarterly State of Streaming report for Q1 2020, revealing large increases in viewing, a significant rise in missed advertising opportunities, unexpected social leaders on TikTok and the continued dominance of Roku in the connected TV space. Streaming consumption habits changed significantly in Q1 2020, particularly in […]
Consumer analytics company Viewers-Logic has released data revealing the extent of changing media consumption habits in the wake of the Coronavirus lockdown. Overall, the data shows that just before the lockdown, Britons were spending 45 per cent more time on mobile devices than watching TV, but that gap has now narrowed to only 28 per […]
The majority of consumers would watch targeted adverts to be able to access video content for free, according to research from advertising technology and consumer insights provider Rakuten Advertising. The research, conducted among more than 4,500 adults in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, showed that 38 per cent of UK consumers […]
Since shelter at home orders were first announced in the United States, there has been a 72 per cent increase in the number of Netflix subscriber profiles that were used to stream video each week. Residents in the Tri-State region of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, with some of the strictest shelter-at-home policies, spent […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated anticipated broadband consumption trends by almost one year and has exponentially increased the number of >1TB/2TB ‘power users’, according to the Q1 2020 OVBI (OpenVault Broadband Insights) report from broadband technology solutions and industry analytics provider OpenVault. Driven primarily by subscriber self-quarantines during March, average consumption at the end of […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has published its latest weekly research on how Britons are receiving and acting on news and information during the current Coronavirus pandemic. The report summarises the findings from week five of the ‘lockdown’, including how people’s experiences and behaviour has changed since the previous weeks. The research, which also includes early […]