With the ever growing success of series, Eurodata TV Worldwide’s 2017 Scripted Series report observes a rise in originals. Local productions remain strong but co-productions are gaining pace. American series are challenged by European programmes, especially British. The series genre boosts the prime time audience in many countries, substantially in some such as in Denmark, […]
According to Q317 data from research firm Dataxis, 60 million pay-TV subscribers have been added to global numbers since Q316. Asia‐Pacific has the highest number of pay-TV subscribers, accounting for 62 per cent in Q317, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.5 per cent between Q316‐Q317. The total number of pay-TV subscribers […]
According to Dataxis research, South East Asian countries amounted to 1.82 million paid SVoD accounts at the end of September 2017, most of the growth coming from Malaysia and Indonesia. Even though the region tripled its number of paying subscribers during the year, SVoD penetration among households remains very low at 1.2 per cent, illegal […]
Excitement about emerging technologies and the resilience of historically leading categories will drive the US consumer technology industry to a record-breaking $351 billion in retail revenues ($266 billion wholesale) in 2018 – 3.9 per cent higher than 2017, according to research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The latest edition of CTA’s semi-annual industry report, […]
The Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB) has published a white paper revealing Netflix has almost twice the number of subscribers than Amazon Prime Video in the UK. Netflix boasts 7.5 million subscribers in the UK, whilst Amazon Prime Video has just 3.8 million. The report, entitled The SVOD Report: Charting The Growth In SVOD Services […]
Research from Ampere Analysis has identified a large and affluent group of sports fans who can, and do pay, a significant premium to watch their favourite teams and competitions. The sports package consumers have on their TV subscription has the potential to be either a deal maker or a deal breaker. In the UK, just […]
The number of pay-TV subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa will increase by 74 per cent between 2017 and 2023 to reach 40.89 million. However, the Sub-Saharan Africa Pay-TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research estimates that subscriber growth will outstrip revenue progress. Pay-TV revenues will climb by 41 per cent to $6.64 billion (€5.52bn) by 2023, […]
AR/VR investment records were broken last year as startups raised over $3 billion across 28 AR/VR categories (over $1.5 billion in Q4 2017). Perhaps the most surprising thing,
A Christmas treat of box-sets has helped BBC iPlayer achieve its best week on record. Viewers spent more time and streamed more programmes on BBC iPlayer than in any previous week. Christmas week (Monday December 25th to Sunday December 31st) was BBC iPlayer’s best-ever week, both for requests (69.2 million) and for weekly hours (25.6 […]
As they become more ubiquitous in homes and in various consumer electronics products, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital assistants are likely to be two of the major overarching themes at the CES 2018 consumer technology show in Las Vegas, according to