Survey: Growing objections to Tokyo Olympics
The number of Japanese citizens now objecting to this year’s planned Olympic Games is growing. Not helping enthusiasm is a state of emergency declared last week for the Tokyo prefecture…
Survey: US cord-cutting speeds up
American households are cutting the cord on their cable subscriptions more rapidly than previously reported, according to the second Future of TV survey of more than 2,100 US consumers by…
Data: Young flock to lesser-known streamers
Team Whistle, a US entertainment and sports media company, has shared data on Gen Z and Millennial streaming preferences from Whistle Wise, the company’s proprietary research and analytics service. While…
Data: iPlayer searches outnumber Netflix
BroadbandDeals has analysed monthly average search volume data from SEMRush, to reveal which video streaming service is the most popular in the UK. BBC iPlayer is the UK’s most popular…
Research: Pandemic boosts US youngsters’ online viewing
Young consumers are watching nearly as much online video content as TV shows and movies, according to Hub Entertainment Research’s annual Video Redefined study, which tracks Americans’ online video habits,…
Analyst: “Bundling is next step in streaming evolution”
Bundling will characterise global TV throughout 2021 as the streaming TV boom forces a re-engineering of the TV value chain and the strategies for reaching the end viewer, according to…
Research: 5m UK homes paying too much for broadband
Five million UK households who are out of contract with their broadband supplier have been put off switching as they don’t have confidence in the process, which has seen them…
Data: 487k UK homes watched Disney+ Soul at Xmas
Viewing figures from TV data and analytics company Samba TV showcases how many UK households watched Soul on Disney+ and Doctor Who on BBC One over the festive period. Reflecting…
Data: UK video sector grows by 26%
Figures from trade body the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and based on data from the Official Charts Company, Futuresource Consulting and Kantar, show that the UK home entertainment…
Portuguese TV adds 349,000 new daily viewers
The number of daily TV viewers in Portugal increased by 349,000 in 2020, taking the total number of viewers to 2.3 million. According to daily Diário de Notícias, of the…
Forecast: 2bn OTT subscriptions in 2025
A report from Juniper Research has found that there will be nearly 2 billion active global subscriptions to on-demand video services in 2025; a 65 per cent increase over the…
Italy adds 2.1m SVoD subs in 2020
SVoD services added 2.1 million subscribers in Italy during 2020, taking the total to 10.7 million in October, according to a study by EY in collaboration with Discovery and Fastweb.…
BPI: Streaming now 80% of UK music consumption
Music consumption increased for a sixth year in 2020, with 155 million albums or their equivalent either streamed or purchased in 2020 – an 8.2 per cent rise on 2019,…
Data: Pandemic doubles UK broadband usage
Data released by UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach shows that broadband usage more than doubled in 2020 with 50,000 Petabytes (PB) of data being consumed across the country, compared to…
Analysts: Sub-$200 5G smartphones in 2021
The 5G smartphone market is now outperforming its predecessor generations on nearly every metric. Between the number of mobile devices, subscribers, and networks available at launch, 5G is the most…
Survey: 1.9m Brits illegally streamed Premier League in 2020
Almost 1.9 million Brits admitted to illegally streaming Premier League football at some point in 2020, according to research from personal finance comparison site finder.com. The survey asked Brits…