As TV Connect, the IP video distribution conference and expo, gets under way in London, OTT TV data-driven intelligence specialist Conviva and OTT multiscreen media analysis firm nScreenMedia have revealed the findings of a research study analysing billions of streaming sessions and hours around the globe. The report examines several notable viewing trends over a […]
Ofcom’s annual Home Broadband Performance report reveals the actual broadband speeds that UK residential consumers experienced in November 2017. This study uses a representative panel of over 4,000 volunteers across the UK who have connected monitoring units to their routers. Findings from the report include: Average broadband speeds have increased significantly. Average download speeds rose […]
Far from being seen as a replacement for pay-TV, both multichannel and non-multichannel TV households in Europe are adopting online SVoD services, primarily as supplemental video entertainment, according to findings from Kagan, the TMT research arm of S&P Global Market Intelligence. According to analyst Keith Nissen, while a number of cord cutters are adopting SVoD, […]
Research from consulting firm Parks Associates shows that 27 per cent of US pay-TV households agree that sports programming is the primary reason they subscribe to their pay-TV service, although OTT streaming options are having an impact. “While broadcast and pay-TV remain
DTT in Spain is increasingly losing audience numbers to pay-TV. In 2017, DTT had an average audience share of 77.1 per cent, down 2 per cent on one year earlier. Last month, its reach fell even more to 75.9 per cent. By contrast, pay-TV, with 6.6 million subscribers, had an average audience share of 22.3 […]
Fans of true crime drama series The Assassination of Gianni Versace – American Crime Story have made the show BBC iPlayer’s most popular programme in March. The first episode of the hit US drama saw 1.6 million requests to take the top spot in March, in a month that proved a big one for drama. […]
Over 90 people representing law enforcement, rights owners, platform operators, media technology providers, broadcasters and other trade associations from Europe, the US, the Far East, Middle East and Latin America participated in the second AAPA (Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance) workshop on illegal streaming, held in London, recently. The workshop allowed for an exchange of views about […]
In recent years, TV networks have started to position ad inventory more like digital: highly targeted and performance accountable. But advanced targeting inventory likely “accounts for 3 per cent or less of all national TV ad volume, most of which is transacted on the basis of age/gender audience segments”, said Gerard Broussard, author of an […]
More Australians than three years ago are using Optus fixed broadband and mobile phone services following Optus’s purchase of the exclusive Australian rights to English Premier League football. Optus signed a three year broadcast deal for the Australian rights to the Premier League in late 2015 for A$63 million (€39.2m) per year and has this […]
Amazon Prime Video was the fastest-growing VoD service in the UK last year according to figures from UK ratings body Barb. New series of