A report by Ampere Analysis reveals that audiences and the industry can expect disruption to the supply and release of new content for over a year as a result of production delays caused by Covid-19. The firm’s analysis indicates that the unscripted market will more easily weather the current pandemic thanks to the production of […]
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates finds that 67 per cent of US broadband households own and use at least one Internet-connected video device, either a smart TV, streaming media player, Internet-connected gaming console, or connected PVR/DVR. The firm’s Connected Entertainment Ecosystems: Competition & Cooperation report notes that these devices get plenty of use but […]
Findings from consultancy firm Rethink Technology Research suggest that Covid-19 lockdowns provide an 8.9 per cent immediate lift to the SVoD market, which is projected to reach $72.3 billion (€66.05bn) and 775.8 million subscribers in 2025. According to the firm’s Subscription VoD peaks, as Covid-19 lockdown drives sales. SVoD Forecast to 2025 report, the global […]
Satellite operators are finding that dual illumination – of standard as well as high-definition – is ending, and that MPEG4 digital compression is increasingly being used which means a reduction in bandwidth. Now there’s a new worry as
The UK’s solid growth in subscription video on demand (SVoD) adoption is set to continue over the next five years, according to the UK SVOD Forecast, May 2020 from data and analytics company GlobalData. The total number of SVoD subscriptions is expected to double between 2019 and the end of 2024, rising from 22.4 million to […]
Global online TV episode and movie revenues will reach $167 billion (€189bn) in 2025, double the $83 billion recorded in 2019, according to the latest Global OTT TV and Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. About $16 billion will be added in 2020. SVoD’s share of OTT revenues will stay at
The Covid-19 pandemic is creating deep disruption and uncertainty for investors and stakeholders in India’s media industry – probably more so than at any other time in the media sector’s modern history after the first phase of India’s economic liberalisation in 1991. Content creation & distribution, already disrupted and democratised by the growth of mobile […]
Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services will reach nearly $1.6 trillion (€1.81trn) in 2020, a decrease of 0.8 per cent compared to 2019, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker. IDC expects the decline to continue in 2021, but at a somewhat lower degree. The telecommunications services industry is […]
Major film titles have seen nearly three times as many links to illegal streams appearing online since the beginning of the lockdown period, reports UK intellectual property protection body FACT. Analysis of specific films
With net losses that were more than in any previous quarter, findings from research and analysis firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG) indicate that pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 2,065,000 net video subscribers in Q1 2020, compared to a pro forma net loss of […]