According to Kagan, the global fixed-broadband market is on track to reach 1 billion subscribers by the end of this year, driven by unprecedented growth of fiber connections in Asia Pacific, particularly China. At the end of 2018, broadband subscriptions reached 974.7 million while broadband household penetration reached 45.5 per cent, up from 43.2 per […]
IHS Markit has offered its insight following Apple’s unveiling of its new streaming TV and news service from Apple Apple’s commitment to content across all media forms, as well as credit and payment options, indicates the company will continue to invest in its expanding service provision businesses, according to Maria Rua-Aguete, executive director, IHS Markit, […]
Virgin Media has been named fastest broadband provider in the UK for the seventh year in a row. Analysis from UK broadband comparison website Broadband Genie recorded an average download of 71.5Mb for Virgin Media customers – almost three times faster than its nearest challenger. Vodafone claimed top spot for uploading speed, recording an average […]
Google and Facebook’s combined share of the UK digital ad market will also continue to rise. This year, it will reach 63.3 per cent, up from 62.7 per cent last year, according to eMarketer’s latest UK digital advertising forecast. “The duopoly’s stranglehold on the UK digital advertising market is strengthening, with Brexit uncertainties being the […]
Overall spend on video entertainment in Canada remained flat in 2018 at CA$11.3 billion (€7.4bn). However, the Canadian consumer’s appetite for on-demand entertainment continues to grow, helping fuel a progressive landscape, this is according to the latest video insights market report from Futuresource Consulting. Despite a lack of Competition, SVoD is Dominating Home Video “SVoD […]
Content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA is once again teaming up with international research and strategy consultancy MTM to launch the 2019 Pay-TV Innovation Forum. The global research programme will explore the biggest challenges facing pay-TV service providers and content owners today, and how they can identify new opportunities to transform and future-proof […]
In anticipation of the scheduled Apple announcement, the Digital Media and Entertainment Team at research and knowledge-based consulting company Futuresource Consulting have shared their thoughts on what is expected to be new SVoD service launch. “It’s a move that has been anticipated here at Futuresource Consulting and across the industry for a number of years […]
The latest Which? broadband satisfaction survey reveals that customers with the UK’s largest providers are the most likely to be getting a bad deal. BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media supply almost nine in 10 broadband customers, yet year after year these are the providers that occupy the bottom of the consumer champion’s league table. […]
Driven by the influx of new services, faster in-home broadband speeds, and TV-connected device adoption, direct-to-consumer (DTC) channel adoption rates grew three-fold over the last three years to reach 15 per cent of US households, according to data, industry expertise, and prescriptive analytics specialist The NPD Group. In 2019, NPD expects growing consumer interest and […]
Two operators dominate Latin American pay-TV. América Móvil and DirecTV/Sky accounted for nearly half of the region’s pay-TV subscribers by end-2018, according to the findings of the Latin America Pay-TV Forecasts from Digital TV Research. “DirecTV/Sky had 21.43 million subscribers by end-2018 – or just under 30 per cent of the region’s total,” advised Simon […]