Families with young children in their home, particularly aged 10 and under, are making more trips to the cinema than other households, according to research by Ampere Analysis. In fact, Ampere has found that the presence of children in the home is a more important factor than either age or household income when it comes […]
Last year was a defining period for the German TV and video market, with mass market resistance to premium digital video finally falling away and paving the way for next month’s launch of Disney+. As the German market undergoes reinvention, figures from Futuresource Consulting show total spend on video entertainment will reach nearly €10 billion […]
The number of US SVoD subscriptions is forecast to climb from 199 million in 2019 to 307 million by 2025, according to Digital TV Research. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, commented: “The average SVoD household will pay for 3.28 SVoD platforms by 2025; up from 2.28 at end-2019. So, the average SVoD […]
Online TV usage in 2019 grew by 4.4 per cent year-on-year, to 34.5 per cent of users of Italy. Mobile TV also saw growth (+2.3 per cent to 28.2 per cent), according to the annual Censis report on Italy’s communications sector. Meanwhile, both traditional TV (DTT) and satellite TV continued to lose viewers. The first […]
Pay-TV revenues in Canada and the US peaked in 2015 at $112 billion (€102.1bn). Digital TV Research forecasts that revenues will fall by $50 billion to $62 billion in 2025. Revenues will drop across the board. Cable revenues will decline by
The two largest private FTA TV groups in Spain, Mediaset and Atresmedia, have weathered the ad crisis in the country and achieved profit in 2019. Mediaset ended the year with a profit of €211.7 million, up 5.7 per cent, whereas Atresmedia’s profit amounted to €118 million, up 33.8 per cent. The TV groups saw their […]
FTTH reached 10 million lines in Spain at the end of November 2019, according to telecommunications market data published by competition and markets watchdog the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). Movistar accounted for 42.8 per cent of the total FTTH lines, with a total of 4.3 million lines. Eighty-six per cent […]
In just two years, connected TV (CTV) platforms have reshaped the digital video advertising landscape, according to Extreme Reach (ER), an asset management solution for TV and video ads. As revealed in the company’s latest Video Benchmarks Report, 49 per cent of all video ad impressions were served to CTV platforms in 2019 – more […]
Industry data from network test, monitoring and assurance solutions provider Viavi Solutions reveals a rapid surge in the spread of 5G technology. As of January 2020, commercial 5G networks have been deployed in 378 cities across 34 countries, according to The State of 5G Deployments report. The country with the most cities with 5G availability […]
Fibre-to-the-building Internet Service Provider Hyperoptic has been named the fastest broadband provider in the UK in the annual Broadband Genie home broadband awards. Comparison site Broadband Genie’s analysis of 91,000 speed tests carried out in 2019 found Hyperoptic had an average download speed of 211Mbps and an average upload speed of 166Mbps. But Hyperoptic wasn’t […]