Consumer spend on video entertainment in Australia is expected to grow 3 per cent in 2019 to AU $5.3 billion (€3.3bn), according to the latest video entertainment report from Futuresource Consulting. This growth is to be helped by an uplift at the box office and with SVoD uptake continuing to impress. By the end of […]
5G wireless home broadband will provide UK households with a cheaper, more flexible alternative to fibre connections, offering customers double the current average download speed. According to an independent report from Ovum, commissioned by Three UK, the technology is expected to deliver speeds of 80-100 Mbps, which is on average double what customers in the […]
Thailand viewers are enjoying pay-TV, but many are seemingly not paying for the service. A report from AVIA (Asia Video Industry Association) and gathered by market research company YouGov, says some 45 per cent of so-called pay-TV subscribers are actually watching via a pirate box or on-line pirate App. AVIA says that ‘Illicit Streaming Devices’ […]
The TV flat-panel manufacturing sector is building a large number of screen fabrication plants in order to supply TV manufacturers with 65” and 75” units. Sweta Dash, president of market research company Dash Insights,
Wi-Fi 6 chipsets are forecasted to break the 1 billion annual shipments barrier by 2022 just three years after the first commercial deployments expected for 2019, according to ABI Research. Although it has taken several years to develop and ratify, market adoption of this standard is anticipated to be swifter than the rollout of 5G […]
US Internet users are more likely to watch online video on a smart TV or smartphone than their European counterparts. They are less likely to view online video via computer, according to Ampere Analysis. There is little difference for viewing via a tablet: – Computer (61 per cent in the US vs 65 per cent […]
Research conducted by Telecompaper shows that the Dutch TV and video market is growing strongly. Revenues in the second quarter for pay-TV services amounted to €556 million, up 7.2 per cent from a year earlier, buoyed by new OTT providers expanding their presence in the market. The average digital TV package in the Netherlands has […]
Sixty-five per cent of all money spent on advertising in digital media in 2019 will be traded programmatically, according to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts. Advertisers will spend $84 billion (€73.64bn) programmatically next year, up from $70 billion this year, which represents 62 per cent of digital media expenditure. Zenith predicts that in 2020 advertisers will […]
FTTH has become the main access technology for pay-TV services in Portugal at the end of the first half of 2018, accounting for 38.2 per cent of total subscribers. The data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom) reveals that there were 3.9 million pay-TV subscribers in Portugal, up 131,000 on the same period last year. […]
Latest figures published by IHS Markit and Cable Europe show the number of cable homes in Europe once again grew year on year in 2017, reaching 69.2 million and comprising 36.3 per cent of all television households. Revenue generating units (RGUs) rose year on year to 127.5 million. Consolidated full year data, released in the […]