Significant pay-TV growth (631,000 new subscribers in a year) is having a negative impact on FTA DTT in Spain. According to the CNMC, FTA DTT consumption fell to a record low of 76.6 per cent to March 2018 with pay TV making 20.6 per cent. DTT viewership has dropped by over 6 per cent from […]
Pay-TV revenue in Asia Pacific, comprised of subscription fees and local and regional advertising sales, will top $56 billion (€48.95bn) in 2018 after 5 per cent annual growth, according to a new report, Asia Pacific Pay-TV Distribution, from analyst firm Media Partners Asia (MPA). The Asia Pacific pay-TV industry will continue to expand at a […]
As the latest premium game titles become increasingly anticipated by consumers looking to play, data from Irdeto reveals that if a AAA title is pirated upon its launch, publishers can expect hundreds of thousands of downloads of illegal copies, resulting in massive revenue loss, according to research from digital platform security specialist Irdeto, who monitored […]
The top 10 service providers in the US collectively lost over 877,000 television subscribers in the third quarter of 2018, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. The two satellite services suffered the largest losses, shedding 726,000 between them, while their online offerings gained 89,000. DISH Network lost 367,000 satellite television subscribers, compared to 192,000 […]
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 according to the European Broadband Cable Yearbook from research firm IHS Markit and broadband trade association Cable Europe. This was the largest number of cable homes in Europe since 2009, […]
Reflecting the growth of online content access, the Official Film Chart, the first weekly chart in the world to count movie downloads, has launched in the UK. The chart – the result of a partnership between the Official Charts Company, the British Association for Screen Entertainment and incorporating data from retailer members of the Entertainment […]
Spanish viewers traditionally have amongst the highest viewing times per day in the world. Typical daily viewing during the months of October in 2016 and 2017 was about 235 minutes/day when linear and non-linear TV consumption was included. However, by October this year that loyalty had slumped to just 220 minutes (for linear and non-linear […]
Standard Media Index (SMI), a source of ad pricing and revenue data, has unveiled data for Hispanic Television during the 2017-18 Broadcast Season. Data from SMI’s new and improved AccuTV indicates ad revenue from Hispanic Television Networks remained flat at $2.1 Billion during the full 2017-18 Broadcast Season. When equivalising for the World Cup, however, […]
A report from International Data Corporation (IDC) presents its inaugural forecast for the worldwide 5G network infrastructure market for the period 2018–2022. With the first instances of 5G services rolling out in the fourth quarter of 2018, 2019 is set to be a seminal year in the mobile industry. 5G handsets will begin to hit […]
Research from Parks Associates finds 24 per cent of UK broadband households that own a smart speaker with personal assistant would like to control their smart TV via this device, nearly twice as many as any other device. “In the UK, the NPS [Net Promoter Score] of smart speakers is negative, so Amazon, Google Home, […]