South Korea: Netflix subs up 192% YoY
The number of Netflix subscribers in South Korea has nearly tripled year-on-year to over 1.8 million mark according to Wiseapp, a smartphone app service market research company in the country.…
Survey: 65% of UK unaware of Disney+ streaming service
A survey of by GlobalWebIndex has found that just 35 per cent of UK consumers are aware that Disney will be launching its own streaming service, Disney+, later this year.…
Study: Italy sees drop in content piracy
Content piracy is still a problem in Italy, although the number of illegal acts in 2018 dropped by 8 per cent compared to the previous year. This is the conclusion…
Forecast: 230m European pay-TV subs by 2023
The European pay-TV market is expected to gain 17.7 million subscribers between 2019 and 2023 which would represent an 8.4 per cent growth, according to a Dataxis forecast. It should…
Italian TV sector remains flat in 2018
The Italian TV sector was worth €8.21 billion in 2018, a slight drop on the €8.22 billion the year before, according to the annual report from Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom).…
Study: Traditional TV far from dead
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a professional services firm, and digital media consulting company, Vorhaus Advisors, have released their inaugural Digital Strategy Study, which analyses the state of media and content…
TRAI: Indian DTH subs up 4.9m in 1 year
India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has reported that the country’s DTH operators have seen growth of an additional 4.91 million extra pay-TV subs in the year to March 31st 2019.…
fuboTV reports viewed content up 200% YoY
fuboTV, the US OTT subscription service, has reported that its users watched over three billion minutes of programming on the platfrom during Q2, a nearly 200 per cent spike over…
Analysis: Global SVoD subs up, still room for growth
Growth in SVoD subscriptions in the US has resumed after plateauing between Q3 2016 and Q1 2018. And although the proportion of internet users in Europe who have a SVoD…
Research: Tech issues discussed mostly by Hulu, Amazon subs
Users of Amazon Prime Video and Hulu are much more likely to discuss technical problems and dissatisfaction with content than Netflix subscribers, according to a Strategy Analytics report, Voice of…
Report: Advertisers out gun Cricket WC sponsors
Insights from marketing technology company, 4C Insights, reveal that Nissan tops the TV ad rankings for the month leading into the Cricket World Cup, but alcohol brand Thatchers is the…
Report: Warning signs for in-car audio streaming
A study from Strategy Analytics and its in-vehicle UX (User Experience) division says that “yesterday’s” in-car CD players, and then high-quality radio, which were “must haves” for drivers are now…
TDG: Ad-supported Netflix tier would be well received
Recent comments from NBCU and Hulu executives have rekindled speculation as to whether Netflix will introduce an ad-based tier. Given the rising costs of programming and growing debt, so goes…
Survey: 1 in 4 Netflix subs think it’s too expensive
Netflix may have the most subscribers and a large number of popular original TV shows and movies, but that doesn’t mean that the streaming leader is without criticism. Above all…
Report: Record $9.6bn games investment in last 18 months
Digi-Capital’s new Games Investment Report Q3 2019 shows that after a record $5.8 billion games investment in 2018, VC and strategic games investors poured another $3.8 billion into games companies…