Five million French TV viewers aged four and above watch online content on a daily basis, be it live or catch-up – an increase of 28 per cent over two years – reports Médiamétrie. Among them, 3 million watch from a TV set via an IPTV connection. This growth has been driven by mobility and […]
Swedish consumers’ appetite for video streaming is high. During the third quarter of this year a majority (51 per cent) of households in Sweden subscribe to at least one streaming service, a yearly growth of almost 30 per cent, according to Mediavision. Netflix is the main driver, adding 400,000 Swedish households over the last 12 […]
Market research and consulting company Parks Associates has released its updated list of the top 10 subscription over-the-top (OTT) video services in the US market, based on estimated number of subscribers. Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu continue to hold the top three slots, with HBO Now and Starz moving into the top five. Netflix Prime Video […]
Significant pay-TV growth (631,000 new subscribers in a year) is having a negative impact on FTA DTT in Spain. According to the CNMC, FTA DTT consumption fell to a record low of 76.6 per cent to March 2018 with pay TV making 20.6 per cent. DTT viewership has dropped by over 6 per cent from […]
As the latest premium game titles become increasingly anticipated by consumers looking to play, data from Irdeto reveals that if a AAA title is pirated upon its launch, publishers can expect hundreds of thousands of downloads of illegal copies, resulting in massive revenue loss, according to research from digital platform security specialist Irdeto, who monitored […]
Spanish viewers traditionally have amongst the highest viewing times per day in the world. Typical daily viewing during the months of October in 2016 and 2017 was about 235 minutes/day when linear and non-linear TV consumption was included. However, by October this year that loyalty had slumped to just 220 minutes (for linear and non-linear […]
Research from Parks Associates finds 24 per cent of UK broadband households that own a smart speaker with personal assistant would like to control their smart TV via this device, nearly twice as many as any other device. “In the UK, the NPS [Net Promoter Score] of smart speakers is negative, so Amazon, Google Home, […]
Screen-time has little impact on children’s sleep, according to a study by Oxford University. Screens are now a fixture of modern childhood, and as young people spend an increasing amount of time on electronic devices, the effects of these digital activities has become a prevalent concern among parents, caregivers, and policy-makers. Research indicating that between […]
Netflix’s rapid growth in the UK seems set to continue, according to the latest edition of ScreenThink, a syndicated market tracker from research and strategy consultancy MTM. With over 9 million subscribers by the end of Q1 2018, Netflix looks set to exceed 10 million subscribers this year, if it can keep churn levels down […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group finds that about 78 per cent of US TV households subscribe to some form of pay-TV service. The percentage of TV households that subscribe to a pay-TV service is down from 86 per cent in 2013, 87 per cent in 2008, and 81 per cent in 2004. In TV […]