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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

European pay-TV market reached 185m subs in Q1

Dataxis research shows that the European pay-TV market reached 185 million subscribers during the first quarter of 2018 and grew only by 0.3 per cent compared to Q4 2017. This is the lowest net add ever observed by Dataxis. Some 35 per cent of the pay-TV subscribers receive direct cable, 31 per cent satellite and […]

June 26, 2018

Analyst: Africa to reach 10m SVoD subs

Digital TV Research forecasts 9.99 million SVoD subscribers across 35 Sub-Saharan Africa countries by 2023, up from 1.56 million at end-2017. Although massive growth will take place, the Sub-Saharan Africa OTT TV & Video Forecasts report estimates that SVoD revenues will only be $775 million (€663m) by 2023 as some platforms are very cheap. South […]

June 26, 2018

Study: High-speed broadband in 75% European homes

At the end of June 2017, more than three quarters of homes in the 28 countries in the European Union (EU28) had access to high-speed broadband services. For the first time, 4G LTE availability matched 3G HSPA networks, in terms of the number of households covered. Published by the European Commission, the Broadband Coverage in […]

June 26, 2018

Spain: Pay-TV ad revenues to increase 6.2%

Pay-TV is gaining momentum in Spain both in terms of subscribers and of advertising revenues. Research from Zenith forecasts a 6.2 per cent growth in pay-TV ad revenues this year versus 3.4 per cent in FTA TV. The total TV ad revenue in the country is likely to reach €12.54 billion, up 2.1 per cent […]

June 25, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid