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Australia: Olympics top TV sport

The Olympics – encompassing both Summer and Winter Olympics – is Australia’s most popular TV sporting viewing experience with nearly 8.7 million Australians watching the Olympics almost always or occasionally when on TV, according to findings from Roy Morgan Research. Over 1 million Australians almost always or occasionally watch leading Winter Olympics sports including Figure […]

March 2, 2018

Australia: FTA reigns, SVoD growing

The Online & On Demand 2017 report, based on research conducted by Nielsen on behalf of Screen Australia, finds streaming services have completely changed how Australians view content, yet broadcast TV remains popular and piracy levels have declined drastically. “The global screen industry is in a rapid period of change, driven by technology,” noted Fiona […]

March 1, 2018

Pay-TV subs recover balance in US

The top 10 television service providers in the US gained 84,600 subscribers in the last quarter of 2017, according to the informitv Multiscreen Index. It was a mixed picture, with only three of these services reporting gains. These were driven by growth in online television services, while traditional platforms continued a trend of slow quarterly losses. The […]

February 28, 2018

Analyst: SVoD households top 250m

The number of households worldwide which pay for streaming video services such as Netflix and Amazon Video has now broken through the 250 million mark, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics’ TV and Media Strategies service. The report, Home Video and OTT Video Forecast – Global, predicts that the number of homes paying […]

February 28, 2018

SpotX: Connected TV ads on the rise in Europe

SpotX, the video advertising and monetisation platform for media owners, has unveiled an infographic forecasting the growth of the connected TV advertising opportunity in Europe. The visual representation of research commissioned by SpotX, shows the growth of advertising on connected TV, defined as content served to the TV screen via the open internet through devices including smart […]

February 28, 2018

Strategy Analytics: Explosive growth for smart speakers

The smart speaker market took a giant step towards mainstream acceptance in Q4 2017 as aggressive discounting tactics and a wider choice of models, price points and country availability resulted in millions of first time buyers, reports Strategy Analytics. Full year shipments hit 32 million units, up over 300 per cent year-on-year, with Google and […]

February 28, 2018

Kagan: W. Europe set for boost in TVE experience

As operators take a more comprehensive approach to TV Everywhere, or TVE services, mirroring their set-top-box-based offers, the next phase of change involves voice-activated features, single sign-on and new European Union legislation that brings borderless access to online content services across the EU member states. Content line-ups and

February 27, 2018

Study: Growing consumer desire for aggregation

Findings from The Best Bundle: Consumer Preferences in a Peak TV World from Hub Entertainment Research point to increasing consumer frustration with the rapid expansion of TV viewing options. Highlights from the study

February 27, 2018

Facebook set to overtake YouTube for mobile video

According to the latest findings from the Mobile Video Index (MVI) from mobile video traffic management solutions specialist Openwave Mobility, while YouTube remains the most popular for mobile video, Facebook is rapidly closing the gap in some markets – and has even overtaken YouTube in others. This is the second edition

February 26, 2018

BBC Winter Olympics streaming records

The BBC’s coverage of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games was streamed 22.2 million times across BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer, smashing the previous record of 6.2 million streams for the Sochi 2014 Games. BBC TV coverage attracted an overall audience of 33.2 million with a peak of 4.1 million on February 17th for Yarnold […]

February 26, 2018