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29% of European TV channels are based in UK

A Brexit report by the European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, provides a European-eye view of the UK’s weight within the EU’s audiovisual markets. It provides key figures on the co-productions between the UK and other EU28 countries, the import and export of films between the UK and the other […]

July 3, 2018

African TV & OTT markets poised for growth

The Sub-Saharan African TV and online video market is full of hopes and promises for the near future. Both markets are underdeveloped and, in the case of online video, at a very nascent stage of development. However, recent data from IHS Markit clearly points to strong growth. Pay-TV growth is closely linked with the state […]

July 2, 2018

Irdeto: Brazil matches ‘most-pirated’

Digital platform security specialist Irdeto has detected 5,088 unique illegal streams redistributing games over the Internet during the group stage of the 2018 World Cup. The bookies’ favourites, Brazil won the unwanted moniker of most-pirated team, with more than 582 illegal streams detected for its three group stage matches. Brazil was followed by Morocco (561 […]

July 2, 2018By Colin Mann

India pay-TV subs falls in Q1

The total active DTH pay-TV subscribers in India dropped slightly during the first quarter this year. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) says its quarterly performance indicator shows that the overall active subscriber numbers dropped to 67.53 million from 67.56 million. The surprise fall follows a consistent upward trend in DTH which continued throughout […]

June 29, 2018By Chris Forrester

4G LTE network to boost mobile subs in Colombia

With 58.4 million subscriptions by the end of 2017, the Colombian mobile market was the fourth largest in Latin America, accounting for 8.3 per cent of the region’s mobile subscriptions, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. Over the next five years, mobile operators will add a combined 5.2 million subscriptions to the market, […]

June 29, 2018

UK creative industries ‘global success story’

UK trade body the Creative Industries Council has released a report which explores the challenges and opportunities of creative businesses in the UK as they look to grow and develop their business, focusing on their experience of accessing finance to support their ambitions. The report finds that creative businesses have higher ambitions of growth and […]

June 28, 2018

Indonesia: 4G to drive telco & pay-TV revenues

Total pay-TV and telecom services revenue in Indonesia is poised to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7 per cent over the period 2017-2022, mainly driven by growth in mobile data (4G) and fixed broadband revenues, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. Mobile service subscriptions in Indonesia reached 426.6 million at […]

June 28, 2018

Roku Audience Marketplace for OTT ads

Streaming platform and device specialist Roku has introduced Audience Marketplace, which it suggests gives advertising buyers and sellers a new way to target audiences more effectively on the Roku platform in the US. By leveraging Roku’s first-party data and proprietary ad technology, publishers can use Audience Marketplace to sell targeted audiences on the Roku platform […]

June 28, 2018

Study: Mobile access key driver for OTT in Asia

Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has revealed findings from its market study, Asia OTT Television Research Report 2018, in partnership with YouGov, an international data and analytics group, and conducted a study that polled 5,000 participants across Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. The purpose of study was to discover how […]

June 27, 2018

Study: US smartphone ownership nearing TV

Smartphones continue their meteoric popularity and are now owned in 87 per cent of US homes, second only to televisions at 96 per cent ownership, according to Consumer Technology Association (CTA) research. CTA’s 20th Consumer Technology Ownership and Market Potential Study also shows that for the first time, the top three most-frequently owned tech products […]

June 27, 2018