Italy has seen a huge take-up in SVoD services, rising from 2.3 million subscribers in June 2017 to 5.2 million in 2018. This includes services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Timvision, Now TV (Sky Italia), Infinity (Mediaset) and Eurosport Player. Although figures for individual operators are not provided, it is widely believed that the […]
Black Friday is here and following media articles over the last few days talking about the authenticity of Black Friday deals, GfK has provided some live pricing data from its Online Pricing Intelligence (OPI). In the television category, there are less models being promoted this year. Half of models (49.2 per cent) are on sale […]
Brits are ditching their DVD players and desktop PCs and increasingly turning to newer technology – with smart TVs and smart watches on the rise – according to findings from comms regulator Ofcom. Shoppers in the UK are predicted to spend billions of pounds again this year on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and much […]
According to a report by WitsView, a division of TrendForce, the global shipments of branded LCD TV sets for 2018 are forecast to total 218 million units, an increase of 3.4 per cent compared with last year. The market has been driven by stock-up demands for the World Cup and lower prices of TV sets. […]
Consumer spend on video entertainment in Australia is expected to grow 3 per cent in 2019 to AU $5.3 billion (€3.3bn), according to the latest video entertainment report from Futuresource Consulting. This growth is to be helped by an uplift at the box office and with SVoD uptake continuing to impress. By the end of […]
Thailand viewers are enjoying pay-TV, but many are seemingly not paying for the service. A report from AVIA (Asia Video Industry Association) and gathered by market research company YouGov, says some 45 per cent of so-called pay-TV subscribers are actually watching via a pirate box or on-line pirate App. AVIA says that ‘Illicit Streaming Devices’ […]
Research conducted by Telecompaper shows that the Dutch TV and video market is growing strongly. Revenues in the second quarter for pay-TV services amounted to €556 million, up 7.2 per cent from a year earlier, buoyed by new OTT providers expanding their presence in the market. The average digital TV package in the Netherlands has […]
Sixty-five per cent of all money spent on advertising in digital media in 2019 will be traded programmatically, according to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts. Advertisers will spend $84 billion (€73.64bn) programmatically next year, up from $70 billion this year, which represents 62 per cent of digital media expenditure. Zenith predicts that in 2020 advertisers will […]
FTTH has become the main access technology for pay-TV services in Portugal at the end of the first half of 2018, accounting for 38.2 per cent of total subscribers. The data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom) reveals that there were 3.9 million pay-TV subscribers in Portugal, up 131,000 on the same period last year. […]
Latest figures published by IHS Markit and Cable Europe show the number of cable homes in Europe once again grew year on year in 2017, reaching 69.2 million and comprising 36.3 per cent of all television households. Revenue generating units (RGUs) rose year on year to 127.5 million. Consolidated full year data, released in the […]