According to Dataxis, as at Q1 2018 pay-TV in Latin America reached 71.4 million subscribers, which represents a drop of around 0.1 per cent compared to the end of 2017. Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico were the markets that recorded the highest loss of subscribers. For the first quarter of 2018, América Móvil remained the main […]
US Senators Edward J Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, are requesting that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launch an investigation into the privacy policies and practices of Smart TV manufacturers. They note that Smart TVs can track the content users are watching, but manufacturers may not […]
A study from Juniper Research has found that by 2022, mobile operators can collectively generate an additional $35 billion per annum from new and underdeveloped revenue streams. If implemented, these, together with cost savings identified in the study, would enable operators to offset the impact of falling voice and data revenues and maintain, or even […]
The rapid and increasing number of worldwide 4K flat panel TV shipments over the past few years is contributing to the overall growth of the global flat panel TV market. 4K TV units account for more than one-third of the total flat panel TV units sold in 2017. ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm providing […]
Nearly eight million Australians aged 14+ own a video game console in the household, almost two-fifths of the population (39.4 per cent). In this eighth generation of video game consoles, Sony’s PlayStation 4 has the highest number of consoles in Australian households, independent Australian research company Roy Morgan reveals. This is significantly larger than Microsoft’s […]
With every smartphone brand applying the 18:9 and wider aspect ratio screens to its newer models, the rate of adoption is expected to quicken in the second half of 2018. Smartphones using 18:9 and wider aspect screens are forecast to increase to 66 percent of total smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2018, soaring […]
In 2017, the number of Italians who pirated audiovisual content at least once amounted to 37 per cent, down by 2 per cent compared to 2016, and the phenomenon decreased especially among the under 15s (-7 per cent). These are the positive result that have emerged from the survey by the Federation for the Protection […]
The Italian media sector in 2017 achieved a turnover of €14.75 billion, down 0.9 per cent year-on-year, with TV and radio contributing €8.95 billion (-2 per cent). In the TV segment, revenues from free-to-air TV reached €4.93 billion (-3.5 per cent), while pay-TV was worth €3.38 billion (-0.2 per cent), the later dominated by Sky […]
Video research from Parks Associates reveals US broadband households watch an average of two hours of alternative content on a computer each week from sources including Facebook, SnapChat, YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion. The research examines alternative content such as livestreaming, user-generated content, short-form videos, and web video series that are available via social networking, video […]
Reducing churn and increasing subscriber engagement is at the heart of most mobile operator content strategies, according to report from Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Strategies (WMS) service. The objective of bundling access to premium subscription video or music services into tariffs is to upsell subscribers to higher priced tariffs with larger data allowances, drive user […]