Directors UK has called for more career development initiatives for under-represented directors as their latest report reveals the negligible progress made in the employment and representation of black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) directors in UK television. The report, Adjusting the Colour Balance: Black, Asian and minority ethnic representation among screen directors working in UK […]
Global online TV episode and movie revenues will reach $129 billion (€110.2bn) in 2023; more than double the $53 billion recorded in 2017. About $16 billion will be added in 2018 alone. From the 138 countries covered in the Global OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from Digital TV Research, the top five will command […]
According to the Connected Devices and Media Consumption survey from IHS Markit, TV content discovery is at the heart of the battle among TV and video providers to convince consumers that their user experience is both easy to use and truly personalised. Even with
An expert review from Strategy Analytics’ User Experience Strategies (UXS) group has found that the recently released Amazon Fire TV Cube has created a more seamless video and TV viewing experience by leveraging a more human-like and preferred voice-enabled solution. Moreover, the Cube allows users to control multiple features, functions and additional devices with voice; […]
Mobile is the fastest growing sector of the global video games market and this year $54 billion (€46.1bn) will be spent on buying games, downloading additional content (DLC) and subscriptions, accoridng to Futuresource Analysts. What is most surprising about mobile gaming is that in 2018 it will account for 42 per cent of total worldwide […]
Research by the International Television Research Group (inTV) – a cooperative group of independent channels whose objective is to promote the benefits of international TV to the advertising/communications industry – and market research firm GlobalWebIndex has identified an untapped TV audience of 112.5 million consumers who are frequent consumers of international TV channels, but who […]
Africa’s entertainment and media industry has entered a new phase – a third wave of convergence – according to PwC’s Entertainment and media outlook: 2018 – 2022: An African perspective report. The borders that once separated the entertainment and media (E&M), technology and telecommunications industries are blurring in the battle for the attention of the consumer […]
Smaller, non-geostationary satellites will add more than 25 Terabytes/second of additional capacity over the next 10 years according to a report by Northern Sky Research (NSR). In a world where a 50 or 100 Gb/s of Ethernet traffic is considered fast enough, Terabyte speeds are truly electric given their 1000 x 1 Gb/s capacity. NSR […]
To address rising competition in the advertising market, Google-owned YouTube is diversifying its business model by rebranding and expanding its YouTube Premium subscription service and other measures to raise revenue, while maintaining the company’s position as the world’s leading online video platform. The current markets for YouTube Premium, excluding the music-only tier, are expected to […]
An estimated 3.3 million Portuguese households subscribed to pay-TV services at the end of July 2018, according to the Telecommunications Barometer published by Marktest. This figure represents 81.9 per cent of total households in the country. The pay-TV penetration rate has grown significantly when compared to the 46.4 per cent registered in 2006, but reveals […]