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Programmatic continues to grow in the UK

eMarketer’s latest forecast of programmatic ad spending indicates that, despite recent negative press, the UK remains a market leader in programmatic, and strong growth will continue over the next few years. By the end of 2017, advertisers are expected to spend an estimated £3.39 billion on programmatic trading, up 23.5 per cent from the prior […]

December 12, 2017

DVB-T2 households to reach 72% by 2022 in Europe

Dataxis research sheds light on the importance that DVB‐T2, the extension of the television standard DVB‐T, will acquire in the upcoming years. This system was devised to enable a better signal compression to broadcast digital television. It became the widespread standard of all recent DTT deployment and is currently being rolled out to replace DVB‐T […]

December 12, 2017

Portugal pay-TV subs up 3.2%

Portugal ended the third quarter of 2017 with 3.8 million pay-TV subscribers, representing an increase of 33,000 on the previous quarter and of 116,000 year-on-year (+3.2 per cent). Data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom) shows that the growth was mostly due to fibre technology (FTTH/B), whose number of subscribers grew 27.3 per cent on […]

December 12, 2017From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Study: Consumers resist paid live streaming

Despite predictions that live streaming television was going to be one of the hottest features in 2017, interest in this service has fallen flat. StreamOn, a Cogent Reports study by Market Strategies International, has found that only 11 per cent of all streamers pay for live streaming television. Nearly a dozen new

December 11, 2017

Australia: Demand for digital connectivity at all-time high

Australians’ demand for online content and services continues to climb unabated, reshaping the communications industry in new ways. This is a key finding of the Communications report 2016–17, produced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). “We are downloading, consuming and creating more data and content than ever before. We are also communicating in […]

December 11, 2017

Musk will help make V-band a $25bn business

A report from Northern Sky Research (NSR) says that spectrum in the mostly unused V-band could be worth almost $26 billion (€22bn) in cumulative revenue for the satellite industry by 2030. One promised service from

December 7, 2017By Chris Forrester

UHD panel market expected to boom

The global UHD panel market is expected to attain a high demand in the coming years due to the phenomenal pace at which technological advancements are taking shape across the world. A market research publication by TMR Research foresees the market to stay high on growth because of the predominant reasonableness, similarity, and execution of […]

December 6, 2017

Top 10 EU telco revenues at €51bn in Q2

According to Dataxis analysis, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefonica, are the leading telecom groups in Europe in term of revenues for the second quarter of 2017. The revenues of the top 10 telecom operators in Europe amounts to €51 billion as per data recently published Q2 2017 by Dataxis. The top five Telecom groups in […]

December 6, 2017

OTT, pay-TV to bring in $283bn

Pay-TV revenues [subscriptions and PPV] and OTT revenues [AVoD, SVoD, TVoD and DTO] combined will reach $283 billion (€239bn) by 2022, up by 18 per cent from $239 billion in 2016 according to the OTT and Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The report, covering 138

December 5, 2017

Analyst: European cable growth potential limited

As research firm IHS Markit and Cable Europe released a report suggesting that the European cable industry continued to show resiliency and steady growth in 2016, Mohammed Hamza, Senior Research Analyst for Kagan research has given a more sober assessment of the growth potential for the sector. Delivery an Industry Overview at the S&P Global […]

December 5, 2017By Colin Mann