After a decade of change in advertising with the emergence of many new forms of advertising competing for investment, a study has for the first time quantified the total profit generated by different forms of advertising to show what they actually deliver to the bottom line. The study – Profit Ability: the business case for […]
A study by Transparency Market Research (TMR) has detected that the shares in the global OTT services market are distributed among a large number of vendors who cater to international and regional demand. That being said, a few players do hold a position of strength, such as Netflix, Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. These players are […]
A survey of consumer behaviour has revealed five types of ‘Television Tribe’, each with very different patterns in the way they consume and pay for content. The study, Television Tribes, from content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA, in partnership with TV industry research firm Ampere Analysis, highlights the new reality of pay-TV consumer […]
Research from global content services provider TVT Media shows the UK is at the epicentre of the explosion in OTT and VoD services across the European Union and Turkey, as 82 of its 226 OTT platforms – double any other EU nation – are VoD services targeted outside the UK. The research, commissioned by TVT […]
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the largest pay-TV providers in the US — representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost around 405,000 net video subscribers in Q3 2017, compared to a loss of 250,000 subscribers in Q3 2016. The top pay-TV providers account for 92.2 million subscribers — with the […]
The media industry in Europe is undergoing rapid transformation with increasing popularity of OTT video services that will see revenue double by 2021, according to Frost & Sullivan research. Increasingly ubiquitous connectivity, progressive consumers, and regulatory initiatives around a ‘Digital Single Market (DSM)’ have intensified the competition among several international companies, local start-ups, pay-TV operators […]
The UHD device market continues to excel with media streamers, set-top boxes, games consoles and UHD TVs all demonstrating significant growth, according to analyst firm Futuresource Consulting. The quantity of 4K content that is being created is also growing, but there is limited delivery of it to consumers, the company finds in its latest 4K […]
Eutelsat Communications has presented the results of its survey on TV trends across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the ASBU BroadcastPro Selevision Summit in Dubai. Satellite: the preferred digital video infrastructure across Middle East and North Africa Satellite TV reception in the MENA region has continued to increase its market-share compared to […]
Netflix has released October data for its Netflix ISP Speed Index, its monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best primetime Netflix streaming experience. Taiwan’s Taiwan Broadband experienced the largest speed gain in October with an increase of 0.62 Megabits per second (Mbps). The gain brought its average monthly speed to 3.32 […]
Video piracy – the copying and selling copyrighted content – has been around since the advent of the VHS tape and home video recording in 1979, notes market intelligence firm ABI Research. Today, video piracy has shifted from pirated set-top boxes to content redistribution over broadband networks. The most common forms of piracy today include […]