On-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programmes (and excluding revenues from other sources such as sports and adult and also excluding SVoD packages and the Internet) will reach $6.0 billion in 2017, up from $3.9 billion in 2011 and $2.3 billion in 2007, according to findings from Digital TV Research. The On-demand TV Revenue […]
Netflix has revealed in a blog that it will offer streaming of TV shows and movies in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland before the end of the 2012. Upon launch, Internet users in the Nordic countries can subscribe to Netflix for one monthly price and instantly watch a wide array of Hollywood, local and global […]
Findings from research and analysis specialist Leichtman Research Group suggest that the thirteen largest multi-channel video providers in the US – representing about 94 per cent of the market – lost about 325,000 net additional video subscribers in Q2 2012. Quarterly net multi-channel video losses in Q2 2012 were only about 1,500 more than in […]
As anticipated when both services were launched in July, NOW TV, BSkyB’s OTT service NOW TV is now live on open IPTV platform YouView. YouView customers will find the App on the homepage and once registered online, will be able to access the movies they choose instantly. Customers who have already registered for NOW TV […]
Magyar Telekom has reported that Q2 net profit more than doubled from a year ago when it was hit with one-off legal fees, and flagged price rises and spending cuts for the second half to improve its underlying profitability. Net profit for the three-month period came in at €38 million, up from €15.6 million in […]
The BBC Sport website has seen an 80 per cent rise in users, with Olympics webpages attracting a peak of nearly 8 million readers natively and 10.4 million globally. The website has received 29 million requests for its Olympics interactive video streams, with a clip of Bradley Wiggins winning his gold medal seeing 729,000 requests […]
Microsoft and PPTV, China’s leading Internet TV service provider, signed a strategic partnership memorandum today to launch PPTV Asia TV Networks (ATN) platform on Windows Azure. This one-stop Internet TV service platform will offer content and service providers a new scale of business opportunities. This is also Microsoft’s first cloud-based collaboration with a local Chinese […]
As new ways to consume media give viewers greater choice of how, when, and where to watch, an old standby – the television – is making headway in the race for market cachet, according to a blog post from Pat McDonough, Nielsen’s SVP Insights, Analysis and Policy. According to Nielsen, Americans spend 35 hours each […]
The number of homes paying for IPTV is predicted to rocket to 165 million by end-2017, up from 51 million at end-2011 and from only 7.5 million at end-2007, according to a new report from Digital TV Research (DTVR). The Global IPTV Forecasts report estimates that China will supply 77 million (47 per cent) of […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from two recent video reports – VoD and Encoder Equipment and Video Subscriber – which tracks equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video providers, and Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers, which tracks IP, cable, satellite, and hybrid set-top boxes and OTT media servers. “2012 will be […]