A report on In Flight Connectivity (IFC) and connectivity from Northern Sky Research says that while the overall benefits of ‘Smarter Planes’ should be worth $37 billion over the next decade, the industry needs to address service quality to users and better measurement of the passenger experience “in what is still an underperforming market”. This […]
Western European OTT TV episode and movie revenues will reach $23.02 billion (€19.93bn) in 2023; more than double the $9.84 billion recorded in 2017, according to the Western Europe OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. Revenues for 18 countries covered by the report are expected to climb by $2.63 billion in […]
Despite Turkey’s recent economic decline, it still boasts an OTT subscription video subscriber base of 3.9 million subscribers (excluding multiscreen services) – the largest in Central and Eastern Europe – reports IHS Markit. Netflix and Amazon comprised just 5 per cent of the Turkish subscription-video market in 2017, falling behind numerous Turkish players, as local […]
Content protection and advanced data solutions specialist Viaccess-Orca (VO) has released a series of reports that detail facts on global illegal streaming during the FIFA football World Cup in Russia and how effective the company’s anti-piracy services were in detecting and stopping those streams. The analysis, assembled by VO, is based on an extensive anti-piracy […]
Shipments of VR headsets plummeted by over a third in the second quarter, research from IDC has found. IDC said momentum had stalled from several years ago, when Alcatel, Google and Samsung were bundling headsets with smartphones. However, it noted shipments
According to Dataxis research, almost 40 per cent of households in 17 Asian countries will be connected to fixed broadband by the end of 2018. But the levels of penetration remain significantly different between mature and emerging economies: penetration of fixed internet lines (xDSL, FTTx and Internet cable) reaches over 90 per cent in South […]
The number of wireline broadband homes not subscribing to traditional multichannel in the US reached a new record high in the second quarter, according to a Kagan report. Overall, an estimated 16.9 per cent of US occupied households were “broadband-only homes” in the second quarter, up nearly 3 percentage points year-over-year. The boom in broadband-only […]
A draft decision from the Dutch regulator, endorsed by the European Commission , identifies cable operator VodafoneZiggo and incumbent operator KPN as having collective significant market power (SMP) on the wholesale fixed broadband access market. The result of the market analysis is the imposition of third party wholesale access obligations to both networks. Says Matthias […]
Total TV production sector revenues in the UK hit a new high of £2.7 billion (€3bn) in 2017, a rise of nearly a third over the past decade, according to Pact’s annual census. The independent TV sector has shown steady growth at 1.9 per cent per year since 2012, equivalent to roughly £50 million per […]
The global findings of the 2018 Pay-TV Innovation Forum, produced by content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA in partnership with international research and strategy consultancy MTM, highlight that 84 per cent of pay-TV executives expect competition for paid-for video services to increase dramatically over the next five years. The programme seeks to identify