Since the 2014 World Cup kicked off in Russia, viewers of the group stage have already streamed more football action over the Akamai Intelligent Platform from Russia than they did during the whole of the Rio tournament. The record was surpassed on the tenth day of the tournament and, by the end of the first […]
Consultancy firm EY has published the second edition of its study on online content piracy in France (Piratage en France), which aims to assess the shortfall related to the illegal consumption of audiovisual content in France. The study quantifies the impacts of piracy on the state budget, direct jobs, the financing of creativity and lastly […]
US broadcast station mergers and acquisitions (M&A) volume reached $5.11 billion (€4.38bn) in the second quarter of 2018, as tracked by Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. This is the largest quarterly deal volume since the second quarter of 2007. Ninety-eight per cent of the volume ($5.01 billion) is attributable to […]
Addressable TV is set to shake up the TV advertising industry significantly over the next few years as commercial TV channels gain the ability to target advertising at finely segmented audiences. Extensive demographic data from Roy Morgan Research covering the attitudes Australians have towards advertising shows that contemporary Australians are largely sceptical of advertising, with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]