Findings from Futuresource Consulting suggest that the relationship between SVoD and pay-TV is relatively complementary in most countries, with pay-TV households more likely to take SVoD services than free-to-air only households, although as SVoD becomes more established, this is less apparent. The eleventh edition of the firm’s twice yearly consumer research programme – Living with […]
Futuresource Consulting has released the results from its latest wave of ‘Kids Tech’ consumer research programme. Now in its third year, it accesses the digital leisure habits of kids between 3 and 16 years old, in the UK, US, China and Germany. It highlights
In a move better to compete against OTT and pay-TV services such as Amazon Prime and Sky,UK multi-play operator TalkTalk has unveiled a new subscription-free service to stream, rent, buy and download the latest TV programmes and movies, which it claims are at Britain’s lowest price in comparison to Amazon Prime, iTunes, Sky and BT. […]
Broadcasters could be forgiven for wishing the digital train would occasionally slow down or at least rest a little longer in one station before moving on to another. For many years, of course, it was very straightforward – a signal was sent, by a variety of means, to a TV where it was watched or […]
Consumers’ video streaming behaviour has fundamentally changed the competitive landscape of the TV industry. Media companies now find themselves in a battle for attention, engagement, and audiences. To understand this competitive landscape better, Adobe and The Diffusion Group surveyed US video streamers off all ages. Key insights from the research include:
“Broadcast is alive, well, and continues to deliver value in today’s fragmented ecosystem,” asserted Howard Horowitz, president of Horowitz Research, at the Online Video Conference at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. In a presentation based on the research firm’s latest consumer data –The Value of Broadcast Content in Today’s Multiplatform World – Horowitz showed […]
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) has confirmed plans to release a broad selection of films in 4K Ultra HD. UPHE will begin a progressive rollout of its growing roster of movie titles around the world beginning this summer, showcasing a mix of new releases, including some of this year’s most-anticipated blockbusters The Huntsman: Winter’s War, […]
Netflix has unveiled its Q1, saying it had added a global net increase of 6.47 million subscribers during the quarter. This was better than its previous ‘best ever’ quarter (Q2/2015) when it added 5.59 million net new subs. US growth was 2.23 million, and helping Netflix’s overall global subs base to 81.5 million. Most of […]
Pay-TV platform DISH, TVB (USA) and CCTV have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York to halt what they allege is illegal streaming of content via the ‘h.TV’ device. TVB is the largest producer of Cantonese-language TV programming in the world and CCTV is the largest television […]
Nearly half (49 per cent) of all young adults don’t subscribe to a pay-TV service, according to data from Adobe. It says 18 to 24 year old cord cutters and cord nevers spend 54 per cent of their total TV time watching OTT TV and young adults average 11.2 hours per week streaming video on […]