The adoption of SVoD services in France has so far been slower than other major western markets. Consulting firm Ampere Analysis’s comparison of the content catalogues of SVoD players in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US reveals that of the six markets, France has less content and far lower levels of localisation […]
Sixty-five SVoD platforms are currently available in France, a three-fold increase over 2010, according to a joint study released at the Cannes Film Festival by TV regulator CSA and funding body CNC. However, the more successful platforms are those who invest important financial means into content. Accordingly, the dominant platforms are Netflix with 3,5 million […]
Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services reached $1,662 billion (€1,389 bn) in 2017, an increase of 1.4 per cent year over year (in constant dollar terms), according to market intelligence firm the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Telecom Services Database. IDC believes that the growth rate will accelerate to 1.6 per cent in 2018, bringing […]
New research from analyst firm Parks Associates shows that 6 per cent of US broadband households are highly likely to subscribe to an online pay-TV service within the next 12 months, which would more than double the number subscribing today. “In 2017, 14 per cent of non-pay-TV households were
The top 10 television service providers in the US lost over 200,000 subscribers between them in the first quarter of 2018, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. Among the top 10 services there were 373,000 fewer satellite subscribers and 245,000 fewer cable television customers. Meanwhile online television services DirecTV NOW and Sling TV gained a total […]
Revenues from pay-TV in Spain increased by 14 per cent in 2017, according to Spain’s competition and markets watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). Pay-TV brought in €564 million with free-to air TV earning €560 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the latest data available on the […]
Following the recent announcement that Vodafone are in talks to buy large parts of European cable group Liberty Global, Gary Barton, Principal Analyst for Enterprise Services at GlobalData, a data and analytics company, has offered his thoughts on the significant market opportunities that this deal will open up for the telecoms provider: ‘‘The proposed deal […]
As TV Connect, the IP video distribution conference and expo, gets under way in London, OTT TV data-driven intelligence specialist Conviva and OTT multiscreen media analysis firm nScreenMedia have revealed the findings of a research study analysing billions of streaming sessions and hours around the globe. The report examines several notable viewing trends over a […]
Far from being seen as a replacement for pay-TV, both multichannel and non-multichannel TV households in Europe are adopting online SVoD services, primarily as supplemental video entertainment, according to findings from Kagan, the TMT research arm of S&P Global Market Intelligence. According to analyst Keith Nissen, while a number of cord cutters are adopting SVoD, […]
Research from consulting firm Parks Associates shows that 27 per cent of US pay-TV households agree that sports programming is the primary reason they subscribe to their pay-TV service, although OTT streaming options are having an impact. “While broadcast and pay-TV remain