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Report: Colombian telcos capitalise on pay-TV, mobile

The Colombian telecommunication services industry is undergoing rapid change due to increasing consumer dependence on wireless-enabled services. Frost & Sullivan’s latest analysis, Colombian Telecommunication Services Market, Forecast to 2022, expects the business to top 11.5 billion by 2021 with fixed and mobile broadband, IPTV and machine-to-machine (M2M) services to grow at double-digit rates. Revenue for […]

April 26, 2018

Conviva: Global online viewing up 114% in a year

Conviva, elevating the way OTT businesses use data-driven intelligence with its Video AI Platform, has released its quarterly measurement report on the state of OTT and the streaming video market, covering both the quantity and quality of streaming viewership. The report finds that, compared to this time last year, the audience

April 25, 2018

Watching TV remains kids favourite activity

Statistics show that watching the big screen remains the activity that children dedicate the most time to, according to the latest Kids Tech Consumer Survey report from Futuresource Consulting. This was equivalent to an average of 4.8 hours a week across kids aged 3-16 years in all countries surveyed, which included: the UK, France, Germany, […]

April 25, 2018

Spain: TV ad revenues down 4%

TV ad revenues in Spain saw a significant fall of 4.1 per cent in the first quarter of the year, to €501.8 million, representing 49.1 per cent of all the advertising pie in Spain, according to Infoadex. The Mediaset/Atresmedia duoploy maintained its dominance in the ad market with a combined share of 85.2 per cent, […]

April 25, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

Analysis: Stranger Things – how fast Netflix jumps on content hit

Research by Ampere Analysis reveals how quickly the SVoD platform Netflix can respond to the changing viewing habits of its subscribers. By comparing Ampere’s Consumer data taken from interviews with over 66,000 people in 16 markets with Netflix’s programme commissioning behaviour, we see how the streaming service has been able to adapt its Originals catalogue […]

April 25, 2018

GlobalData: 5G may usher in next wave of sat-comms

By augmenting 5G mobile networks with next-generation satellite capabilities, satellite operators have an opportunity to become a major player in the emerging 5G ecosystem, says data and analytics company GlobalData. Sluggish speeds, high latency and lower reliability compared to traditional fiber and digital subscriber line (DSL) options have restricted satellite’s role to being a provider […]

April 25, 2018

Smartphones usage drives online ad-spend

The increasing array of activities and time spent online as companies develop more services to benefit people’s lives, particularly on smartphones, meant the amount spent on internet advertising hit a high of £11.55 billion in 2017. IAB UK (Internet Advertising Bureau UK) and PwC’s Digital Adspend study says this represents a 14.3 per cent increase […]

April 25, 2018

65” TVs going mainstream?

South Korea’s electronics giants, LG and Samsung, are enthusiastic supports of the ‘bigger, and even bigger’ trend in terms of TV screens. Japan’s Sony and Panasonic are also happy with the public’s enthusiasm for ever-larger screen sizes, and China’s production factories are gearing up to tap into this growth in demand. Over the past seven […]

April 25, 2018By Chris Forrester

Pay-TV Innovation Forum reveals service provider priorities

Content protection and multiscreen television solutions specialist NAGRA, in collaboration with international research and strategy consultancy MTM, has launched the 2018 Pay-TV Innovation Forum, which seeks to explore and catalyse innovation and growth across the global pay-TV industry, with its initial findings suggesting that 87 per cent of European executives agree

April 25, 2018

APAC online video growth ramps up

In a landscape still dominated by TV, the Asia Pacific online video industry is on a sure path to more than double its share of video industry revenues ex-China from 9 per cent in 2017 to 20 per cent by 2023, according to analysis from consulting firm Media Partners Asia (MPA). The analysis covers

April 24, 2018