Customers purchased millions more Amazon Devices this holiday season compared to last year – the best-selling Amazon devices this holiday included all-new Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with all-new Alexa Voice Remote, and Echo. The company announced a record-breaking holiday season thanks to its customers all around the world, with more items ordered worldwide […]
Bodyguard is BBC iPlayer’s biggest show of the year (so far). The first episode has broken records to reach 10.5 million requests – making it the most popular episode ever on BBC iPlayer. Every episode of the Golden Globe-nominated drama – which stars Richard Madden as personal protection officer to Keeley Hawes’ home secretary – […]
Fifty per cent or more of consumers are streaming video content at least once a week via a Smart TV/external streaming device, mobile device, a computer, or a laptop, according to findings in the 2018 Global Consumer Streaming Habits Survey, from cloud services for video provider Brightcove, which analyses consumption preferences across generations when it […]
An annual survey on US consumer video viewing habits from advisory firm Altman Vilandrie & Company indicates that more than 60 per cent of US viewers now subscribe to paid video services, with a majority subscribing to at least one video service and a pay-TV provider. Furthermore, 63 per cent of all viewers selected live […]
South Korea’s overall video and TV market spend is on track to achieve 8 per cent growth in 2018, ending the year at 7.8 trillion KRW, ($7bn), according to the latest Video Insights country report from research and knowledge-based consulting company Futuresource Consulting. “South Korea ranks as one of the world’s ten largest video entertainment […]
Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, has set a new record for peak traffic on its global content delivery network (CDN). On December 11th, the volume of data being delivered across the Akamai network exceeded 72 Tbps, surpassing the 70 Tbps threshold for the first time in the company’s 20-year […]
Time spent viewing linear TV around the world may be declining but its reach remains unparalleled, while the spread of smart and connected TVs is set to open up new opportunities for advertisers, according to a WARC report. The latest Global Advertising Trends study states TV is at a crossroads, noting that daily time spent […]
EurodataTV Worldwide has released its Yearly Sport Key Facts 2018 report, declaring that the 2017-2018 season was a vintage year for sport shown on television. “The 2017/2018 season was an exceptional sports season marked by
According to IHS Markit consumer surveys, when choosing video services in India, three in four connected consumers feel localised content is as important as price – especially the inclusion of local Indian content and the quality of subtitling and dubbing of foreign video content. Fateha Begum, associate director, connected devices and media consumption, notes that […]
Ooyala has put together its thoughts on how the UK will be watching content over the Christmas period, and how broadcasters might try to fight back to regain a slice of the viewing market. Discussing the key viewing trends we’re likely to see over the next few weeks, Jim O’Neill, principal analyst, Ooyala, commented: “Over […]