Declining pay-TV subscriptions in the UK suggest that cord-cutting, which is well established in the US, is now beginning to affect the European market, according to findings from research firm Strategy Analytics. Its report, European Pay TV Index, found
Spain’s pay-TV revenues in 2018 remained flat as a result of the price war between the rival platforms. The latest data from the CNMC reveals that the Spanish platforms only improved their revenues by 1.2 per cent in 2018, despite the growth of 210,000 subscribers to 6.78 million. Overall, platforms made €2.16 billion in revenues […]
Convergent packages are boosting pay TV subscriptions in Spain. Some 91.8 per cent of pay-TV customers access their service via a convergent package, according to competition and markets regulator the CNMC. Furthermore , eight out of ten are subscribed to a quintuple package (with five services: fixed and mobile telephony, fixed and mobile broadband and […]
Nearly a quarter (23.4 per cent) of French thematic pay-TV channels are also available through OTT distribution through dedicated apps. According to a study from research company NPA Conseil, this figure rises to 50.2 per cent when including indirect distribution through aggregation platforms such as MyCanal and Molotov. Two types of channels are particularly well […]
Pay-TV revenues in Eastern Europe will peak at $6.95 billion (€6.2bn) in 2019 – before slowly falling to $6.59 billion by 2024. Analogue cable revenues will drop by $844 million over this period, so digital pay-TV revenues will increase by $502 million to $6.56 billion. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said: “Tough […]
According to IAB UK, the trade association for digital advertising, UK advertisers spent £13.44 billion on digital advertising in 2018. The total ad spend figure, as reported in the latest IAB UK and PwC Digital Adspend study, is a 15 per cent year-on-year increase and demonstrates continued confidence in the power of digital advertising. For […]
SVoD continues to resonate with consumers across the globe, becoming an integral part of the video viewing lifestyle. A report from Futuresource Consulting reveals that SVoD already reaches more than 60 per cent of households in North America, 26 per cent in Western Europe, 21 per cent in Asia-Pacific and 19 per cent in LatAm. […]
Entertainment shows still capture big audiences regardless of the country, according to the latest edition of the Entertainment TV Report from Eurodata TV Worldwide which examined these programmes in 11 countries. On average, TV channels devoted 1/3 of their prime time schedules to entertainment formats in 2018. “During primetime, entertainment shows helped boost audience figures […]
Convergence Research has released its 2019 Couch Potato Reports (launched annually since 2003). The reports suggest that the TV/movie industry is being reconstructed from the inside and by the outside in the US, as programmers now directly compete against their traditional TV access and independent OTT buyers that rival in terms of content spend. Traditional […]
The Asia Pacific online video market will double in size over the next five years, according to analysis by Media Partners Asia (MPA), as the explosion of screens and smart devices, driven by mobile broadband connectivity, drives digital growth and scalability across the region. In Asia Pacific, online video advertising and subscription revenue will expand […]