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APAC pay-TV revenue up 4% in 2017

Research on the pay-TV channel ecosystem shows India powering revenue and profit growth for regional pay-TV broadcasters in Asia Pacific. Revenue for pay-TV channel groups owned by global media companies expanded by 4 per cent in 2017 to reach around $5 billion (€4bn) across the region, while EBITDA grew 9 per cent Y/Y to reach […]

January 31, 2018

Mobile drives UK adspend growth

The UK’s ad market reached a new milestone during the third quarter of 2017 as almost one in four pounds spent on advertising went to mobile, which posted year-on-year growth of 30.7 per cent to £1.3 billion (€1.48bn), according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data. Total ad market growth was recorded at 3.5 per cent […]

January 31, 2018

OTT global comms market to grow to €32bn by 2021

According to IDATE DigiWorld, The OTT global communication market will grow to €32 billion by 2021. The market is composed of three segments: VoIP (such as Skype), IP messaging (such as WhatsApp), and also a share of social networking advertising revenues. In contrast to the telco communications market, however, the OTT communications market remains very […]

January 31, 2018

Ad-spend on YouTube, Facebook to grow 130% in 5 years

Data from Juniper Research has found that advertising spend on FVoD (Free Video on Demand) content, such as media on YouTube and Facebook, will surge over the next five years, reaching $37 billion (€29.9bn) by 2022. This is up from an estimated $16 billion in 2017. In addition, unique users of such content will reach […]

January 30, 2018

Analyst: Big-3 SVoDs to triple original content spend

The Big-3 SVoD players – Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video – will shift an increasing percentage of their content budgets from licensing third-party films and show to originals, according to new report, Big-3 SVOD and the Original Content Arms Race – Analysis & Forecasts, published by actionable intelligence specialist The Diffusion Group. By 2022, […]

January 30, 2018

RAI licence fee boosts Italian TV sector revenues

The RAI licence fee boosted revenues for the 5 major Italian broadcasters by 6.5 per cent to €9 billion in 2016, according to a study carried out by Mediobanca’s R&D division. Of the total, free-to-air accounts for €5 billion (+9.8 per cent), pay-TV for €3.4 billion (+2.6 per cent) and radio for €0.6 million (+3.2 […]

January 30, 2018From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Research: VoD 8.7% of daily viewing time in France

2017 marked a greater convergence in TV, Internet and video usage in France, according to data from meadia reaserch group Médiamétrie. Still rising, these usages complete and add to each other. In 2017, Internet and catch-up screens represented 8.7 per cent of daily individual viewing time in France. Although OTT and SVoD complete the landscape […]

January 30, 2018

Europe: Linear OTT pay-TV subs up 13% in Q3

According to Dataxis research, linear OTT pay-TV market in Europe reached 7.4 million subscribers at the end of September 2017. This represents a growth of 13 per cent compared to the previous quarter. Over the years the number of linear OTT offers has been increasing, driven by the growth observed in offer specialised in sports […]

January 29, 2018

Digi-Capital: AR to approach $90bn revenue by 2022

AR (mobile AR, smartglasses) could approach three and a half billion installed base and $85 billion to $90 billion revenue within five years. At the same time, VR (mobile, standalone, console, PC) might deliver 50 to 60 million installed base and $10 billion to $15 billion. That’s a pretty big difference, and it all has […]

January 29, 2018

Spain: Pay-TV breaks subs and revenue records

The Spanish pay-TV market set new records in subscriptions and revenues in the first half of 2017. Data from the CNMC reveals that pay-TV surpassed 6.1 million subscribers and made €1.042 billion in revenues to June, more than  FTA channels for the first time in the six month period. Pay-TV subscribers grew by 4 per […]

January 26, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid