Global TV shipments increased by 7.9 per cent to 50.6 million units in the first quarter of 2018 compared to a year ago, according to critical information, analytics and solutions provider IHS Markit. Liquid-crystal display (LCD) TV shipments rose 7.5 per cent to 50.1 million units and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV shipments jumped 115.8 […]
According to Dataxis forecasts, the pay-TV market in the ex-USSR countries will grow at a 1.6 per cent CAGR between 2017 and 2023 to reach 59.7 million subscribers. The Russian market represents 80 per cent of the total today and its share should remain stable until the end of the period. Pay-TV revenues will approach […]
For the first time, IPTV reception has drawn level with DTT in France, registering a penetration rate of 55 per cent of TV homes in the second half of 2017, according to data from the CSA’s Observatory for audiovisual equipment. The CSA forecasts that IPTV will rapidly become the primary TV reception mode on all […]
As the football world gears up for the showdown between Liverpool and Real Madrid in this weekend’s UEFA Champions League Final, data from digital platform security specialist Irdeto reveals that a total of 5,100 unique illegal streams were detected redistributing games over the Internet during this year’s Champions League knockout stages. Of this total, 2,093 […]
During 2017, broadband lines grew by 6.1 per cent compared to last year throughout Latin America, reaching 72.4 million connections. It is a similar growth rate to 2016 (6.3 per cent), according to Dataxis figures. DSL was still the most used technology with a market share of 48.1 per cent but it continued losing weight […]
“Just do the math,” some might say, and imagine the buying power of a Netflix with a spectacular 360 million subscriber base. At that level – even at current $10 or so monthly subscriber rates – the potential is simply enormous. A 350+ million subscriber base would more than match the combined buying power of […]
Traditional multichannel video losses in the US in the first quarter showed modest improvement over the same period in 2017, but the magnitude of the decline remains elevated, according to the Q1 2018 US Multichannel Subscriber Report by Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Combined cable, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest cable and telephone providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – acquired about 800,000 net additional broadband Internet subscribers in 1Q 2018. These top broadband providers now account for 96.5 million subscribers – with top cable companies having 62.2 million […]
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has released Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2018, the eighth report in its series that tracks, rates and compares the operational and commercial performance of satellite operators, as experienced by teleport operators, in order to strengthen the industry by driving self-improvement across all companies. Research for the report was conducted by Futuresource, […]
Global demand for video services reached $700 billion (€593bn) in 2017 and will grow steadily to reach $842 billion by 2022, according to a new whitepaper – How Operators Can Capture a Share of the $700 Billion Global Video Market – published by advisory firm Strategy Analytics and sponsored by Huawei. Consumer video services such […]