Figures from financial services company Raymond James reveal that 31 per cent of Internet users polled in November named a streaming service such as Netflix or Hulu as their primary method of consuming video content. That was up from just 24 per cent about a year ago. It was also a scant few percentage points behind […]
The alleged scandal in South Africa over pay-TV operator MultiChoice and whether it abused its influence with public broadcaster SABC has now reached the country’s parliamentarians. The opposition Democratic Alliance is calling for a full parliamentary enquiry into the damaging allegations. Consumer organisation Corruption Watch is making similar demands, while the Competition Commission says it […]
Pay-TV revenues [subscriptions and PPV] and OTT revenues [AVoD, SVoD, TVoD and DTO] combined will reach $283 billion (€239bn) by 2022, up by 18 per cent from $239 billion in 2016 according to the OTT and Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The report, covering 138
As research firm IHS Markit and Cable Europe released a report suggesting that the European cable industry continued to show resiliency and steady growth in 2016, Mohammed Hamza, Senior Research Analyst for Kagan research has given a more sober assessment of the growth potential for the sector. Delivery an Industry Overview at the S&P Global […]
TV advertisements that generate strong emotional reactions deliver a stronger sales impact, a new study by marketing science academic Professor Karen Nelson-Field has found. The study,
UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky showed a hard-hitting sexually explicit movie at 21.00 immediately after having screened 5 back-to-back episodes of The Simpsons. Broadcasting regulator Ofcom, in its report on a complaint received regarding strong language and sex scenes within an 18-rated action-thriller movie ‘Wanted’, said: “The complainant said that her 11-year-old son was watching and […]
MultiChoice, despite its recent political problems, has seen strong subscriber growth. In the half-year to September 30th the South African pay-TV operator added almost 600,000 new subs, up 10 per cent on the same period a year ago. Not all the growth came from its DStv satellite service. The biggest rise came from GOtv, its […]
Mexican multiplay telco América Móvil has entered into an agreement with the International Olympic Committee for the broadcast and exhibition through digital and pay-TV platforms of the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 and Paris in 2024, the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang in 2018 and Beijing in 2022, and the Youth Olympic Games […]
UK commercial broadcasters Channel 4, ITV and Sky are joining forces to launch The Big TV Festival, an unprecedented collaboration between the broadcasters. Co-produced with Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, The Big TV Festival will take place on February 8-9 2018 in a bespoke set created in Blackwood Forest, Hampshire. […]
South African-based pay-TV broadcaster MultiChoice has strongly refuted that it paid any bribes or kickbacks in regard to the fees paid by the broadcaster to news channel ANN7, or to the public broadcaster SABC in relation to the provision of set-top boxes for reception of the country’s digital terrestrial services. The allegations are creating something […]