US audiences may be moving away from traditional cable, satellite and IPTV packages but the trend is being tempered by the emergence of ‘pay-TV polygamists’ – households taking more than one subscription as they add OTT services – according to research contained in a report, Show the Love with Customer Experience, from subscription, billing and […]
The Asia Pacific pay-TV sector is bucking the downward trends in much of the rest of the world. Subscribers will grow by 78 million and revenues by $2.73 billion between 2017 and 2023, according to the Asia Pacific Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. “China and India together will account for 81 per […]
The global entertainment market is expanding on multiple fronts, according to new theatrical and home entertainment data released by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Consumer spending for the combined theatrical and home entertainment markets reached $88.4 billion (€72bn) worldwide. The global box office reached a new record high of $40.6 billion in 2017 […]
The US wireless [celluar] industry contributes $475 billion (€387bn) annually to America’s economy and supports 4.7 million jobs, according to a new report commissioned by US wireless communications industry trade body the CTIA. The analysis, developed by professional services company Accenture, finds that the US wireless industry accounts for 2.6 per cent of total US […]
Driven by growth in mobile data, fixed broadband and pay-TV, the total telecom and pay-TV services revenue in Japan is expected to grow at a CAGR of 2.2 per cent over the forecast period of 2017-2022, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. With a total of 168 million subscriptions in 2017, the Japanese mobile […]
According to the CNBC All-America Economic Survey, nearly 57 per cent of Americans are streaming entertainment and most of those are doing so with Netflix. Findings from the poll of 801 Americans around the country confirm the rapid adoption of streaming service by American households, with Netflix dominating the streaming world, with 51 per cent […]
A quarter of all UK digital ad spending will go to social networks this year, according to eMarketer’s most recent forecast. In 2018, marketers in the UK will spend £3.3 billion ($4.2 billion) on social network advertising, a 24 per cent increase over 2017. eMarketer has increased its projections for social networking advertising spend by […]
AR/VR startups raised a record over $3.6 billion from VCs and corporates in the last 12 months to the end of Q1 2018. Over three-quarters of a billion dollars was invested in the first 3 months of this year alone. A fundamental transition in the fundraising market towards AR from VR, as well as the […]
TV ad spending will continue its decline this year, according to eMarketer’s latest US advertising forecast. With cord-cutting accelerating and OTT viewing on the rise, outlays on TV ads will slip 0.5 per cent in 2018 to $69.87 billion (€56.68bn). As a result, TV’s share of total US media ad expenditures will drop from 33.9 […]
The value of in-orbit satellite rescue and servicing is forecast to be worth $3 billion cumulatively by 2027 and growing at an impressive 62 per cent CAGR from next year, 2019, when ‘space tug’ operations are likely to commence. The study, from Northern Sky Research (NSR), says that the use of these ‘life extension vehicles’ […]