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Australia: News, Reality most popular TV genres

Australia’s leading TV networks know the importance of the early evening TV news bulletin for setting up their evening programmes and the latest research from Roy Morgan confirms that News is the most watched TV genre in an average week seen by 61 per cent of Australians – the only TV genre seen by more […]

May 13, 2019

Study: Just half of 4K TV owners have watched 4K content

Hub’s inaugural study on entertainment technology, Entertainment in the Connected Home, shows that even though ownership of new connected devices in the US is high, many who own them don’t use most of their core capabilities. Highlights from the study include: 1) Half of TV homes is the US now have a 4K set – […]

May 8, 2019

Ericsson report busts 5G consumer myths

Consumers see a near-term benefit from 5G, as they look forward to the technology providing relief from urban network congestion, and to bring more home broadband choices, according to a new ConsumerLab report from communications technologist Ericsson. The report looks at the potential of 5G to benefit consumers, uncovering certain realities about them (consumer realities) […]

May 8, 2019

DFC: 44% only pay for games on mobile devices

DFC Intelligence has released its latest global video game consumer segmentation. This report looks at the total worldwide number of paying video game consumers. This number has soared past 3 billion. However, a large percentage of these users only use mobile devices to play games. Many products will only focus on the approximately 350 million […]

May 8, 2019

Study: Social media has “tiny” effect on teens

Contrary to popular belief, the effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and “tiny”, according to a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests. Family, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing, said

May 7, 2019

EBU: Traditional and new media trust gap grows

Broadcast media remain the most trusted media throughout Europe with 85 per cent of European countries trusting radio and 75 per cent trusting TV. The EBU’s new report – Trust in Media 2019 – shows how the gap between people’s trust in traditional and new media continues to grow. Radio is the most trusted medium […]

May 3, 2019

Line Of Duty 2019’s most-watched programme

Episode one of police drama Line Of Duty series five is the most-watched programme on British television this year with an audience of 13.2 million viewers, 28-day four-screen data has revealed. The first four episodes have attracted larger audiences than any other programme on UK television this year, averaging 10.6 million viewers in seven-day four-screen consolidated […]

May 3, 2019

Research: French youth abandoning TV

Data from French media measurement company Médiametrie shows a continued viewing decline for the country’s main commercial broadcaster, TF1 and public broadcaster France Télévisions. Analysts at investment

May 2, 2019By Chris Forrester

Report: Streaming TV viewership up 72% YoY

According to the findings of the Q1‘19 State of the Streaming TV Industry report from real-time decisioning platform Conviva, year-over-year viewership grew 72 per cent and the rate of consumption growth increased by 49 per cent. In addition to fresh updates on index data related to consumption patterns, device market share, and customer experience issues, […]

April 30, 2019

Analysis: UK leads Europe’s cord-cutting

Declining pay-TV subscriptions in the UK suggest that cord-cutting, which is well established in the US, is now beginning to affect the European market, according to findings from research firm Strategy Analytics. Its report, European Pay TV Index, found

April 26, 2019