The top 10 service providers in the United States lost over 358,000 television subscribers between them in the second quarter of 2018, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. Satellite television providers DirecTV and DISH Network lost 478,000 subscribers between them, compared to 373,000 the previous quarter. Cable companies among the top 10 lost 233,000 […]
Netflix has continued its impressive growth over the last year with over 9.8 million Australians in the June 2018 quarter now having a Netflix subscription in their household – up nearly 30 per cent on a year ago, according to Roy Morgan Research. If the growth trend continues, over 10 million Australians will have access […]
The new rules for the awarding of the Serie A TV rights (per product and not per platform as before) may end up negatively impacting the pay-TV market in Italy. Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano believes that there is a realistic possibility that the 4.87 million subscribers that Sky Italia had at the end of […]
Artificial intelligence (AI), voice-recognition technology and fast connectivity – critical ingredients for smart speakers, smart home technologies and smartphones – will help spur overall US consumer technology industry revenue to $377 billion (€325bn) in retail revenues in 2018, a six per cent increase, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The mid-year update of CTA’s […]
Mark Mulready, VP, Cybersecurity Services at digital platform security specialist Irdeto, has called on payment platforms to support legitimate media organisations, following research that suggests pirates depend heavily on leading payment platforms to help them gather subscription and pay-per-view revenue. In an Irdeto Perspective blog post, Mulready notes that investigators often get told to ‘follow […]
New research from analyst firm Parks Associates finds 65 per cent of US broadband households bought at least one CE device in 2017. The report, 360 View: CE Adoption and Trends finds that US broadband households now own an average of 8.6 connected computing, mobile, and entertainment devices. “Purchase intentions for smart speakers with a […]
The number of Britons that are illegally downloading music is decreasing, according to new custom research from YouGov. YouGov’s Music Report reveals that one in ten Britons (10 per cent) download music illegally, down from 18 per cent five years ago. This number looks set to decrease. While 63 per cent of those that illegally […]
Globally, on an annualised basis, the Conviva sensor is installed in 3 billion streaming video applications for over 200 brands. This represents the largest multi-publisher, independent census data collection and measurement network in the world. The data in this report is a fully -anonymised census measuring every second of every stream from Conviva’s customer base […]
While the majority of consumers in the United States view video content from a variety of sources, in both physical and digital formats, the number of people using only Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and other SVoD services is on the rise, according to global information provider The NPD Group. Nearly one-fifth (17 per cent) […]
Most people in the UK are dependent on their digital devices, and need a constant connection to the Internet, following a decade of digital transformation, according to findings from Ofcom’s Communications Market Report – a study of how communications services in the UK are changing. 2008 was the year the smartphone took off in the […]