The OTT video market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) is crowded and led by regional OTT players, who provide a diverse set of content across multiple languages and genres at competitive price points. Against this back drop, OTT video platforms, content creators and telecom operators must collaborate to boost revenues and profits of their respective businesses, suggests […]
News reports of experiential location-based virtual reality (LBVR) in shopping arcades, theme parks and movie theatres are taking the global press by storm. Companies including FoxNext, Zero Latency and Disney’s ILMxLab with Star Wars are demonstrating that LBVR is a viable business for investment, which is clearly enticing mainstream consumers to satisfy their VR curiosity. […]
Although the total installed base of mobile lines is decreasing in Latin America, most of the key indicators like revenues, postpaid and 4G of the market are progressing. According to Dataxis, the mobile installed base is 685.7 million, representing a decrease of 0.5 per cent since 2016 and the figures deduce a penetration over population […]
The increased popularity of watching eSports tournaments online has become a global mass market, one that caters to a wide range of audiences and markets according to a study by Limelight Network. The study has shed light
The continual expansion of display real estate, faster data speeds, specialised data plans and improved video displays, presents a real opportunity for live TV streaming services such as Sling TV to be marketed as mobile, according to the findings of a recent study from the User Experience Strategies (UXS) service at advisory services, consulting and […]
German cable network operators added around 500,000 Internet subscribers in 2017 and currently supply 7.7 million in Germany with high-speed Internet households (an increase of seven per cent). The figure represents an increase of 54 per cent in five years. The findings were revealed by the Verband Deutscher Kabelnetzbetreiber (ANGA), the Association of German Cable […]
OTT access revenue in the US topped $11.9 billion (€9.6bn) in 2017, a 41 per cent increase over the prior year and is expected to maintain that momentum for the foreseeable future, according to the Convergence Research Group study, The Battle for the American Couch Potato: OTT, TV, Online. The report says OTT revenue (based […]
The Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on TVs from China would increase the price Americans pay for TVs, costing US consumers an estimated $711 million (€574m) over the next year, according to a study commissioned by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and National Retail Federation (NRF). “These proposed tariffs are bad for the economy, businesses and […]
While the SVoD market only currently stands at around 25 per cent of the pay-TV market in MENA, this is set to increase to more than 50 per cent by 2020 according to a study by information, insight and analytics specialist IHS Markit. A booming industry full of hope and expectations, the OTT market is […]
Netflix’s share price has been in the doldrums for the past two weeks or so (currently about $311 [€251] a share, compared to $331 a month ago) but still vastly ahead of its position a year ago ($140). The buoyancy and – in general – upward trajectory is almost entirely because of a matching optimism […]