Ad-funded VoD (AVoD) is outpacing other paid media with spend set to double to $47 billion (€41.2bn) by 2023 worldwide, according to WARC’s latest Global Ad Trends report. More broadly, both consumer and advertiser investment in OTT platforms is rising: globally, spend is projected to reach $129.3 billion in the next five years. As a […]
Openwave Mobility’s Mobile Video Industry Council (MVIC) meeting in London, which included Tier 1 mobile operators Deutsche Telekom, EE, KPN, MTS, Orange, Telefonica, Telus and Vodafone, expect that up to 90 per cent of 5G traffic could be mobile video. This projection is based on current trends and the upward trajectory of mobile video traffic, […]
The Spanish TV market experienced a 1.3 per cent fall in ad revenues to €1.5 billion to September 30th, according to consultancy firm Infoadex. FTA TV channels also experienced a big drop, above all Regional TV ad supported stations seeing a 12.3 per cent drop. The largest TV operators, Mediaset and Atresmedia – with a […]
On a day where a group of British MPs has described the BBC’s pay decision-making as “opaque”, broadcast regulator Ofcom has suggested that the Corporation is generally delivering its remit for audiences, but it must go further in areas such as transparency, taking creative risks and attracting young people, according to the watchdog’s annual report […]
Licence fees across Europe have never been better value. On average, the annual licence fee is €0.35 per day – far cheaper than most European pay-TV subscriptions. This is one of the key findings in the annual Licence Fee report produced by the EBU’s Media Intelligence Service. Research shows that, on average, the annual licence […]
The potential growth of Spain’s pay TV market will rocket in the next five years with a 47.2 per cent rise in the number of subscribers. A report from PwC forecasts that 900,000 Spanish homes will subscribe to pay TV by 2022 reaching a total of almost 8 million pay TV households (currently there are […]
The gap between teens watching TV on-demand and live has grown significantly, with research from marketing communications agency MediaCom showing pre-teens (aged 8-12) are driving the popularity of streaming services in the UK. Nearly half of all teens say they currently watch on-demand TV most often (46 per cent compared to 38 per cent last […]
TV rights for Europe’s big five football leagues are increasingly aligned with their domestic TV market size and fan base size – at least for the time being – according to a report from Ampere Analysis. The slight drop in the value of the English Premier League (EPL) and the rise of the value of […]
The provision of superfast broadband has increased by 25 per cent across OECD member states, according to the Teligen division of consultancy firm Strategy Analytics. Within a year, the number of providers offering the highest speed plans has increased from 49 in 24 countries to 62 in 28 countries. As superfast broadband becomes more prevalent, […]
The finale of BBC One’s Bodyguard was watched by an audience of 17.1 million people, 28-day 4-screen consolidated figures have revealed. This makes it the UK’s most watched episode of any drama series across all channels since current records began, in 2002. This is the largest audience recorded for a TV programme outside of sporting […]