Nigeria has become the largest pay-TV market in Africa in terms of subscribers and continues to have a strong growth potential, according to the latest country profile report from Kagan, S&P Global Market Intelligence. Julija Jurkevic, senior research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, says
In the first half of 2018, GfK recorded total sales of €45 billion for the global market for TVs). That is about one per cent more than in the same period last year, spurred by this year’s FIFA World Cup in Russia. Global sales of a total of 238 million devices are expected for 2018, […]
Telenor Norway has been named the world’s fastest mobile network, with consumers able to download with speeds of 72.05MBps. Research from testing agency Ookla found the top three operators for downloads were European. Telenor was followed by T-Mobile Netherlands, with speeds of 70.05MBps and Nova in Iceland, which hit an average of 67.83MBps. Ookla said […]
Netflix’s new 2018 pricing appears to have stunted new user growth among those living paycheque to paycheque, according to findings from Earnin, an app that allows anyone with a job and a bank account to get paid the minute they leave work. According to the Earnin report,
According to Cisco’s global report on video streaming, 76 per cent of mobile traffic will be video by 2019 and Smart Insight says that more video is uploaded in 30 days than all the video created by major US broadcast networks in the past 30 years. “Can telcos monetise it?” asks Janne Neuvonen, CEO of […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 69 per cent of all US households have an SVoD service from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and/or Hulu – up from 52 per cent in 2015. Among those that have an SVoD service, 63 per cent have more than one of these services – up from 38 […]
Standard Media Index, the only advertising intelligence firm to source detailed and complete data directly from the major agency holding groups, unveiled national advertising revenue figures for July 2018. The National Advertising market gained 10 per cent YoY, when factoring out the World Cup. Looking across platforms, Digital was the strongest performer this quarter, growing […]
A survey by Jiji Press shows that 15.7 per cent of people in Japan subscribe to online video streaming services in order to watch movies. Since the Netflix and Amazon Japan KK launched their streaming services in Japan in September 2015, competition has become increasingly fierce. Among subscribers, those in their 30s made up the […]
Fast growing mobile data and fixed broadband subscriptions, supported by government initiatives to expand wireless and fixed broadband services, are expected to drive the Chinese telecom and pay-TV market revenues at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 5.3 per cent over the forecast period 2018–2023, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData. The […]
Advertiser expenditure on online video continues to grow rapidly thanks to a boom in mobile consumption and most of that spending is going on social platforms – despite concerns over brand safety and ad fraud – according to a WARC report. The latest monthly Global Ad Trends report focuses