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Report: UK kids’ mobile ownership, usage growing

Most UK children are now phone owners by the age of seven, with a big increase this year in the number of 5-10-year-olds who own their own mobile, according to the new 2020 CHILDWISE Monitor Report. More kids of all ages are using their phones to access the Internet, increasingly from their own room or […]

January 30, 2020

Survey: 52% smart speakers used to control TV

Some 75 million people in the US are now using a smart speaker, and more than half of them – 39 million – are using it to control their smart TV, video streamer or other TV device at least weekly. This finding comes from Strategy Analytics’ report, 2019 Smart Speaker User Survey – US Results, […]

January 28, 2020

Research: TVs still dominate US video consumption

Findings from market research and consulting company Parks Associates indicate that TV sets still dominate home entertainment, accounting for over one-half of all video consumed by US broadband households each week. The firm’s report – 360 View: Digital Media and Connected Consumers – reveals consumers report spending on average nearly 20 hours per week watching […]

January 27, 2020

France: 7.8m watch catch-up TV daily

Around 7.8 million French viewers now watch catch-up TV on a daily basis, an increase of 13 per cent over the last two years. Catch-up TV is watched for an average one hour and eleven minutes per day according to a study from Médiamétrie. It’s not just repeated content catch-up services. In November 2019, two […]

January 24, 2020From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Research: Netflix users twice as likely to have Amazon Echo

Analysts at Viant, the advertising tech company, has published research around the differences between Netflix and Hulu users in the US users over the past month. The sample size included 27 million Netflix users and 14 million Hulu users. The data revealed: Who is more likely to have an Amazon Echo, and how used Amazon […]

January 24, 2020

US consumers watched 20min more Netflix per week in 2019

In 2019, US consumers watched about 20 minutes more streamed TV content per week on Netflix than they did in 2018. Weekly time spent watching the top two SVoD services (Netflix and Hulu) rose 7 per cent, growing from 3 hours 45 minutes in 2018 to 4 hours 6 minutes in 2019, according to The […]

January 22, 2020

F1 broadcast to 1.9bn fans in 2019

For the third year in a row, Formula 1 has seen its audience figures grow across both TV and digital platforms compared to the previous season. The total global TV cumulative audience stood at 1.922 billion, the highest since 2012, which represents an increase of 9 per cent compared to 2018. This is the third […]

January 22, 2020By Colin Mann

Research: Privacy still a concern for smart speaker users

A study from Hub suggests that privacy is still a major issue for users of voice control on any device, as well as among potential buyers of smart speakers. Highlights from its research report, titled The Case for Voice Control, reveals: In spite of consumers’ concerns, smart speakers are poised to play a pivotal role […]

January 22, 2020

Report: How Netflix won back US Latino subs

After suffering a sharp decline in penetration among US Latino viewers in late 2018 and early 2019, Netflix has made a comeback due to its extensive investment in Spanish-language content, according to IHS Markit | Technology, now a part of Informa Tech. Netflix’s penetration among Latinos

January 21, 2020

Analyst: SVoD stacking grows in US and Europe

In the US the proportion of TV viewers with three or more SVoD subscriptions has grown 6.6 percentage points since Q3 2018, while in Europe growth has been almost the same (+6.3 points), according to Ampere Analysis. Around two in five Internet respondents in the US have three or more SVoD subscriptions. In Europe the […]

January 20, 2020