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Consumer Behaviour

France: 7.8m watch catch-up TV daily

Around 7.8 million French viewers now watch catch-up TV on a daily basis, an increase of 13 per cent over the last two years. Catch-up TV is watched for an average one hour and eleven minutes per day according to a study from Médiamétrie. It’s not just repeated content catch-up services. In November 2019, two […]

January 24, 2020From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Research: Netflix users twice as likely to have Amazon Echo

Analysts at Viant, the advertising tech company, has published research around the differences between Netflix and Hulu users in the US users over the past month. The sample size included 27 million Netflix users and 14 million Hulu users. The data revealed: Who is more likely to have an Amazon Echo, and how used Amazon […]

January 24, 2020

US consumers watched 20min more Netflix per week in 2019

In 2019, US consumers watched about 20 minutes more streamed TV content per week on Netflix than they did in 2018. Weekly time spent watching the top two SVoD services (Netflix and Hulu) rose 7 per cent, growing from 3 hours 45 minutes in 2018 to 4 hours 6 minutes in 2019, according to The […]

January 22, 2020

F1 broadcast to 1.9bn fans in 2019

For the third year in a row, Formula 1 has seen its audience figures grow across both TV and digital platforms compared to the previous season. The total global TV cumulative audience stood at 1.922 billion, the highest since 2012, which represents an increase of 9 per cent compared to 2018. This is the third […]

January 22, 2020By Colin Mann

Research: Privacy still a concern for smart speaker users

A study from Hub suggests that privacy is still a major issue for users of voice control on any device, as well as among potential buyers of smart speakers. Highlights from its research report, titled The Case for Voice Control, reveals: In spite of consumers’ concerns, smart speakers are poised to play a pivotal role […]

January 22, 2020

Report: How Netflix won back US Latino subs

After suffering a sharp decline in penetration among US Latino viewers in late 2018 and early 2019, Netflix has made a comeback due to its extensive investment in Spanish-language content, according to IHS Markit | Technology, now a part of Informa Tech. Netflix’s penetration among Latinos

January 21, 2020

Analyst: SVoD stacking grows in US and Europe

In the US the proportion of TV viewers with three or more SVoD subscriptions has grown 6.6 percentage points since Q3 2018, while in Europe growth has been almost the same (+6.3 points), according to Ampere Analysis. Around two in five Internet respondents in the US have three or more SVoD subscriptions. In Europe the […]

January 20, 2020

EastEnders has record year on BBC iPlayer

Figures from the BBC reveal that across the year, iPlayer viewers requested to stream or download an episode of long-running soap Eastenders a record 234 million times, up 10 per cent on 2018. 2019 was a huge year for the residents of Albert Square, as they went through the siege of the Queen Vic, Walford […]

January 20, 2020

Research: 25% US homes use AVoD services

Research from Parks Associates finds over one-quarter of US broadband households are interested in innovative offerings accessed via television, such as offline viewing, video gaming, food delivery, ride sharing, and gambling. The research, found in 360 View: Video Services & Connected Consumers, also reveals that 25 per cent

January 17, 2020

Sky poll: Attenborough the ideal PM

Sir David Attenborough would be the nation’s dream Prime Minister. A survey of 2,000 adults revealed the popular broadcaster and naturalist beat the likes of Stephen Fry and Jeremy Clarkson to top the poll of which celebrity people would most like to see take up residency in 10 Downing Street. TV presenters Ant and Dec […]

January 17, 2020By Nik Roseveare