Digital age business transformation specialist CSG has revealed results of its global market survey, The Digital Future Report: IoT Edition, which evaluates consumer understanding, usage and sentiment about current and future IoT applications. By 2030, it is projected that 125 billion connected devices will be part of our daily lives. As the IoT becomes increasingly […]
Sixty-five SVoD platforms are currently available in France, a three-fold increase over 2010, according to a joint study released at the Cannes Film Festival by TV regulator CSA and funding body CNC. However, the more successful platforms are those who invest important financial means into content. Accordingly, the dominant platforms are Netflix with 3,5 million […]
Metova, a provider of mobile, connected car, connected home and IoT Solutions, has announced the results of a survey revealing the sentiment of consumers in the US on connected home technologies and privacy. Of note, over 90 per cent of respondents indicated owning a connected home device such as an appliance, TV, Amazon Alexa or […]
Almost 12 million DAB receivers were sold in 2017 in Europe and Asia Pacific, a new record for yearly sales. Almost half (5.9 million) of the sales were for automotive devices, with key markets showing a significant increase in the number of cars sold with DAB fitted as standard. Cumulative sales for DAB receivers have […]
Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services reached $1,662 billion (€1,389 bn) in 2017, an increase of 1.4 per cent year over year (in constant dollar terms), according to market intelligence firm the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Telecom Services Database. IDC believes that the growth rate will accelerate to 1.6 per cent in 2018, bringing […]
New research from analyst firm Parks Associates shows that 6 per cent of US broadband households are highly likely to subscribe to an online pay-TV service within the next 12 months, which would more than double the number subscribing today. “In 2017, 14 per cent of non-pay-TV households were
The top 10 television service providers in the US lost over 200,000 subscribers between them in the first quarter of 2018, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. Among the top 10 services there were 373,000 fewer satellite subscribers and 245,000 fewer cable television customers. Meanwhile online television services DirecTV NOW and Sling TV gained a total […]
Revenues from pay-TV in Spain increased by 14 per cent in 2017, according to Spain’s competition and markets watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). Pay-TV brought in €564 million with free-to air TV earning €560 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the latest data available on the […]
Following the recent announcement that Vodafone are in talks to buy large parts of European cable group Liberty Global, Gary Barton, Principal Analyst for Enterprise Services at GlobalData, a data and analytics company, has offered his thoughts on the significant market opportunities that this deal will open up for the telecoms provider: ‘‘The proposed deal […]
Netflix has revealed its 2018 recommendations for TVs that it says are faster and easier to use than ever. “From surveying our members, we know that people buying a smart TV care most about price, picture quality, screen size, and ease of use,” write Brady Gunderson, Director of Product Management at Netflix and