According to content protection and data insights MUSO, global piracy rose by 1.6 per cent over the course of 2017, identifying 300.2 billion visits to piracy websites across music, TV and film, publishing, and software. More than a third of these visits were to piracy sites hosting television content (106.9 billion); more than music (73.9 […]
FreeWheel, a Comcast company and advertising management solution, has published its Q4 2017 Video Monetisation Report (VMR), which shows premium video advertising advancing at an impressive rate in Europe thanks to the migration of IP delivered content to the big screen and the increased popularity of live streaming. The report, which looks at the performance […]
The sale of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) headsets and content have not set the world on fire to date. Despite plenty of enthusiasm and hype the actual take-up has been miserable. But 2018 could see a rebound, according to a report from International Data Corporation (IDC). New, or updated, hardware will help. […]
One of the panels at last week’s Satellite 2018 conference looked at the amount of cash flowing into the industry from Venture Capital funds and other investors. Bryce Space & Technology, in a presentation to delegates of its report (Startup Space: Update on Investment in Commercial Space Ventures) said that for 2017 some 164 investors […]
Multichannel broadcasters invested an average of £15.6 million per year over the last three years in new UK children’s programming, representing one of the biggest sources of investment in homegrown kids content outside the BBC, according to new research. However, proposals to change the regulation of TV channel numbers could damage multichannel broadcasters’ ability to […]
Digital pay-TV subscriptions around the world, including cable, satellite and IPTV, exceeded one billion for the first time in 2017. This global growth comes despite the continued uptake of OTT subscription video services, like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, which added more than three times the number of subscriptions than pay-TV last year, according […]
Spain’s TV ad revenues grew by just 1 per cent in 2017 to €2.14 billion versus €2.12 billion the previous year, according to Infoadex. Nationwide TV channels took €1.93 billion whereas Regional TV stations managed €114.2 million, down 10 per cent. The duopoly Mediaset-Atresmedia controlled the market with an 84.7 per cent share, with Mediaset […]
According to analysis by Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, the Nordic market for SVoD video services has grown considerably over the last few years in both subscriptions and revenues, increasing its share of total consumer spend for subscription-based video entertainment from 18 per cent in 2016 to 22 per cent […]
Almost 2 out of 5 French Internet user have already used VoD or SVoD services, a steady increase according to Médiamétrie’s VoD360 study. Over the last 12 months, 13 per cent of the population indicated they had rented at least one video, and 20 per cent have used a SVoD service. SVoD’s primary strength lies […]
The number of digital pay-TV subscribers in Eastern Europe will increase from 25.49 million in 2010 to 61.57 million in 2017 and onto 78.08 million by 2023. The Eastern Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research states that digital pay-TV subs will climb by 27 per cent between 2017 and 2023. “Eastern Europe […]