Research from Creative Skillset, the UK industry skills body for the screen-based creative industries, reveals the impact on the UK’s High End Television (HETV) production sector from the recent growth in FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) and increased home grown production activity. The research shows
Pay-TV revenues are overtaking FTA advertising revenues for the first time in Spain, according to the latest report from regulatory body CNMC. Total pay-TV revenues grew by 14.8 per cent to €520 million in the first quarter of the year. Pay-TV fees amounted to €489 million with 18.4 per cent growth. FTA TV revenues totalled […]
UK advertising is set to see a ninth successive year of growth, and the nation will remain one of the fastest-growing media markets in 2018 with a 4.8 per cent increase predicted to take total investment to £19.8 billion (€22,3bn). This is according to the latest forecast from media investment group GroupM, which has raised […]
Global demand for flat panel displays by area is forecast to grow 7.2 per cent to 210 million square meters in 2018 compared to 2017, according to IHS Markit. That will be the biggest annual growth since 2014. “Growth in demand for flat panel displays next year will be mainly driven by migration to large […]
Ampere Analysis has polled 28,000 internet users across 14 markets to evaluate their willingness to pay for sports content. Of those that enjoy watching sport (42 per cent), the vast majority would be willing to pay regularly to watch at least one of their favourite events. With interests ranging from soccer to the Olympics, tennis […]
OTT TV platforms are becoming increasingly popular in Spain with four in every ten Spaniards watching streamed content via a TV set at least once a week, according to the CNMC (The National Commission on Markets and Competition). Netflix has more than doubled its subscriber count in the last 6 months to 1,163,000, up from […]
Satellite broadcasting is helping drive digital adoption in Africa, according to a report from satellite operator Eutelsat. The report, Digital Transition in Africa, says that despite the ITU-mandated switch off of analogue broadcasting for June 2015 only six African nations have actually made the transition to digital broadcasting. “This slow progress is largely due to […]
According to Dataxis analysis, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefonica, are the leading telecom groups in Europe in term of revenues for the second quarter of 2017. The revenues of the top 10 telecom operators in Europe amounts to €51 billion as per Q2 2017 data from Dataxis. The top 10 telcos are TIM Italy, Sky, […]
Legacy multichannel customer defections in the US accelerated in the quarter ending September 30th, coming in just shy of the 1.2 million mark to bring year-to-date losses to 2.9 million according to data compiled by Kagan, a group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. The combined cable, Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) and telecommunications multichannel subscriptions fell […]
A research study conducted by OTT viewing experience analytics specialist Conviva and independent research and strategy consultancy MTM exploring OTT operational best practices across leading publishers in EMEA and North America has identified a range of practices that could improve the quality of streaming video across the industry, potentially accelerating the overall growth of OTT […]