Thaicom, one of Asia’s leading satellite operators, has announced the signature of a multi-year contract with anal+ Overseas Myanmar, the Canal+ subsidiary in charge of broadcasting internationally and in Myanmar. Canal+ is part of Vivendi SA, one of the largest media companies based in France. The contract is part of Canal+ Myanmar’s launch of a […]
Digital pay-TV subscriptions around the world, including cable, satellite and IPTV, exceeded one billion for the first time in 2017. This global growth comes despite the continued uptake of OTT subscription video services, like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, which added more than three times the number of subscriptions than pay-TV last year, according […]
The number of digital pay-TV subscribers in Eastern Europe will increase from 25.49 million in 2010 to 61.57 million in 2017 and onto 78.08 million by 2023. The Eastern Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research states that digital pay-TV subs will climb by 27 per cent between 2017 and 2023. “Eastern Europe […]
In a move that will help pave the way for its takeover by 21st Century Fox, Sky has entered into a confidentiality agreement with Fox and The Walt Disney Company. In accordance with market rules on Takeovers and Mergers, Sky revealed the terms of the agreement, which relate to the disclosure of information for the […]
Subscription losses slowed for traditional multichannel video providers in Q4 2017 (quarter ended December 31st, 2017), but the sector still tumbled for the full year, according to data compiled by Kagan, a group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Combined cable, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and telecommunication (telco) multichannel subscriptions fell to 94 million, including 91.1 […]
TV-viewing research from Parks Associates finds that live TV viewing among all video consumption has continued to decline overall among US broadband households – nearly 60 per cent of video viewed on the TV is on-demand, non-linear content. The research shows that the trend is particularly pronounced among young consumers. Just over one-quarter of TV […]
Canada’s publicly traded television service providers combined lost almost 20 per cent fewer TV subscribers in 2017 compared to 2016, bucking the trend of accelerating TV cord-cutting in recent years, according to research from Ottawa-based research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services. However, Boon Dog predicts
TiVo has released the 20th edition of its quarterly Video Trends Report, covering key topics across pay-TV, OTT, TV network apps, streaming devices, smart home devices and content discovery. Based on a survey of more than 3,300 consumers, TiVo’s Q4 2017 Online Video and Pay-TV Trends Report illuminates many insights, including: How the Price of […]
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. Launched in 2016 by the pair, the Pay-TV Innovation Forum is a major international initiative that seeks to explore and catalyse innovation and growth across the pay-TV industry, at a time […]
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE and 1&1 have concluded a distribution agreement. Thus, the free TV and pay-TV channels of ProSiebenSat.1 Group will be available in Germany through the long term through the IPTV offer 1&1 Digital TV. With the agreement, 1&1 customers can receive ProSiebenSat.1’s extensive portfolio of channels: The agreement includes the free TV channels […]