According to global information company The NPD Group, digital content ecosystem UltraViolet (UV), is having a positive impact on early adopters and meeting several of the initial objectives of the companies who partnered with the service. In terms of satisfaction with UltraViolet, 82 per cent of users reported they were very or somewhat satisfied with […]
beIN Sport, the international sports network, posted the top rated US programme in Nielsen SocialGuide’s Twitter TV Rankings based on Total Tweets for October 26th 2013. beIN SPORT captured the top spot with El Clásico, the football match pitting bitter rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid. In a weekend filled with top sports events, it was […]
According to the results of a new survey conducted by the TV Systems Intelligence Service at research firm IHS, the bad news for the television market is that nearly three-quarters of US consumers are not interested in buying a Smart TV during the next 12 months. The good news is
A survey of children’s media use in America by kids and family education body Common Sense Media has recorded a dramatic increase in children’s access to mobile media devices in just two years. Among families with children eight and under, there has been a five-fold increase in ownership of tablets (from 8 per cent to […]
Canada’s broadcasting and communications regulator the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has launched Let’s Talk TV: A Conversation with Canadians, a discussion about the future of Canada’s television system. “Canadians have an unprecedented choice of television programs that includes the best of what Canada, and the world, has to offer,” said Jean-Pierre Blais, Chairman […]
The BBC has revealed that its iPlayer app for iOS and Android mobile devices has been downloaded over 20 million times in total, as mobile and tablet TV viewing overtakes TV viewing on PC. Christmas Day 2011 and 2012 marked the top days for app downloads, with 229,200 and 385,600 downloads respectively, when many smartphones […]
According to market intelligence firm TDG’s most recent consumer research project, Video Behavior in the Age of Quantum Media, of the 28 per cent of consumers likely to purchase an Internet set-top box (iSTB) in the next six months, 56 per cent indicate their motivation is due in some degree to their desire to use […]
Australia’s online video market is being driven by the growing popularity of mobile devices and tablets and boosted by the preference of younger consumer age groups towards online video channels as a direct substitute for traditional TV, according to Frost & Sullivan’s latest report, Australian Online Video Market 2013. Frost & Sullivan predicts expenditure on […]
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services, has published a scientific study that leveraged data from hundreds of millions of online videos and advertisements measured using the Akamai Sola Analytics media measurement and analysis product. The study analysed in aggregate 367 million videos and 257 million ads from over 3,000 publishers that were viewed by […]
Research sponsored by Veveo, a provider of semantic technologies designed to bridge the usability gap in connected devices and applications with intelligent search, discovery and personalisation solutions, reveals that pay-TV users perceive content discovery in television to be inadequate for their needs. Furthermore, the research found that pay-TV usability is not keeping pace with the […]