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Report: TV industry must evolve to stay relevant

The global television industry is in the midst of a digital revolution, and it is now clear that streaming video and non-linear viewing will be the most disruptive forces this industry has ever experienced, according to a new report – The Digital Revolution Is Disrupting the TV Industry – by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). […]

March 21, 2016

LatAm pay-TV growth sluggish

Pay-TV revenues [subscriptions and PPV] in Latin America will grow by only 9 per cent (or up by $1.6 billion) between 2015 and 2021, according to the fifth edition of the Digital TV Latin America Forecasts report. Economic woes are one reason for this slowdown, but market maturity is another. Satellite TV will continue

March 21, 2016

Study: Films, TV shows increasingly digitally-accessible

An SNL Kagan study on behalf of the MPAA looking at the availability popular film and TV titles on legal online platforms in the US has found that a significant majority of premium TV series were digitally available on at least one of the online services that were reviewed, including online VoD and TV Everywhere […]

March 21, 2016

Sky adds free sports for all subs

Sky is launching a new sports channel – Sky Sports Mix – which will air a range of content from some of the world’s biggest sporting events to all its TV customers in the UK and Ireland at no extra cost.  For the first time, millions more Sky customers will be able to watch a […]

March 18, 2016

Waoo! Netflix-ready 4K STB

Danish triple-play operator Waoo! has confirmed the immediate availability of its latest hybrid set-top box, first unveiled at CES in January. The STB is the first in Denmark to support 4K, and among the first in the world to integrate Netflix. Waoo! became the Internet entertainment streaming service’s third cable partner in November 2013, following […]

March 18, 2016By Colin Mann

36% Italian viewers pay for on-demand services

More than a third (36 per cent) of TV viewers in Italy are paying for on-demand services, well below the European (50 per cent) and global (65 per cent) averages. The Global Video on Demand Survey by Nielsen reveals that those accessing on-demand services in Italy do so mainly through smartphone (48 per cent) and […]

March 18, 2016By Branislav Pekic from Rome

3.7m pay-TV subs in Central America

The region covered by Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Dominican Republic reached 3.7 million pay-TV subscribers by end of 2015, continuing its growth trend. The total subscribers by the end of Q4 2015 represents an growth of 13.5 per cent compared with the same period for the previous year, reports Dataxis. The […]

March 18, 2016

70% of Brits have pay-TV or VoD subscription

Nearly seven in 10 (69 per cent) Britons online now report their household pays a subscription to watch live broadcast or on-demand programming, according to Nielsen’s Global Video-on-Demand Report. The most popular TV subscription format in the UK is satellite (e.g. Sky), cited by 37 per cent of respondents. Cable (e.g. Virgin and BT) is […]

March 17, 2016

Nielsen: Most consumers have no plans to cut cord

Despite a rapidly evolving media landscape where consumers have more choices than ever in the way they consume video entertainment, traditional TV still reigns as the preferred platform globally, according to findings from consumer analysis specialist Nielsen, which report that just over one-quarter of global online respondents (26 per cent) say they pay to watch […]

March 17, 2016

56% of pay-TV viewers want carousel UI

When too many channels are combined with the inability to find something to watch, a better experience is needed. A white paper released by Digitalsmiths, entitled The War Between OTT and Pay-TV, discusses how and why OTT experiences are more enticing than Pay-TV experiences. Because many OTT streaming services are largely carousel-driven, Digitalsmiths added a […]

March 17, 2016