The six leading pay-TV operators in the US as ranked in the informitv Multiscreen Index maintained their subscriber numbers in the first quarter of 2016, with a net gain of 33,000 video customers. These six operators still have a total 78.31 million video subscribers between them. AT&T U-verse reported the largest loss of video subscribers. […]
The duopoly of Mediaset and Atresmedia in the Spanish FTA TV market is strengthening with the two now controlling 86.4 per cent of the total TV ad revenues in the first quarter of the year (85 per cent the previous quarter). Combined, both TV groups took €430.5 million of the total €498.5 million TV ad […]
ProSiebenSat.1 Group increased its revenues by 22 per cent to €802 million in the first quarter of 2016. All segments contributed to this. In total, the Group already generated 43 per cent of its revenues outside the TV advertising business. This is an increase of 10 percentage points compared to the previous year. The share […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is scheduled to launch JCSAT-14 for SkyPerfecTV at 1am Florida-time of May 5th. The rocket’s Falcon-9 engines were tested over the past weekend, and all responded well. The broadcast satellite has been built and prepared by California-based Space Systems/Loral, and is the first of a pair of launches on SpaceX […]
Advertisers and media buyers have made a 114 per cent increase in investments in original digital video programming over the past two years, according to the third annual Digital Content NewFronts: Video Ad Spend Study. This survey of 360 marketing and media buying professionals was conducted by Advertiser Perceptions and released by the Interactive Advertising […]
Nielsen has announced that Univision Communications, a multimedia company serving Hispanic America, has signed an agreement for Nielsen’s National and Local Digital in TV Ratings services. Univision and UniMás Networks as well as local affiliate stations will receive audience estimates of linear television content viewing on mobile and computer devices. The audience contributions from the […]
The BBC reaches a record weekly audience of 348 million people worldwide, a 13 per cent increase on last year, according to figures released by the BBC Global Audience Measure (GAM). The figures show that the BBC’s weekly global news audience has increased by 38 million people, or 13 per cent, to a total of […]
In the first quarter of 2016, Swisscom’s net revenue remained virtually unchanged year-on-year at CHF 2,885 million (CHF -8 million or -0.3 per cent). EBITDA rose by 2.9 per cent or CHF 30 million to CHF 1,081 million. The CHF 11 million increase in the Swiss core business can mainly be attributed to lower costs […]
Nigerian broadcasting officials have thrown the switch in Jos, capital of Plateau State in the centre of Nigeria, to start free digital TV transmissions, and the eventual end of analogue broadcasting in the region. Nigeria will complete the state-by-state process in June 2017. Some 200,000 free digital converter boxes have already been distributed in the […]
Yospace has partnered with video inventory management platform SpotX to serve personally targeted replacement advertisements within live streams. The partnership opens up ad spots in live TV ad breaks that were previously impossible to monetise when viewed online. Replacement adverts benefit from the latest advances in personalised targeting, allowing broadcasters and advertisers to think beyond […]