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 […]
Pay-TV continues to grow in Spain. A report from PwC predicts that pay TV will reach 7.1 million subscribers in four year’s time, a penetration rate of 46.6 per cent. Currently, it has just over 6 million subscribers with a market penetration of 40.2 per cent. Pay-TV revenues will also grow by 4 per cent […]
The top 10 television service providers in the US lost 835,000 subscribers between them in the first quarter of 2017, according to figures from the informitv Multiscreen Index. That represents a loss of slightly less than 1 per cent of their combined subscriber base. All 10 reported a net loss of television subscribers. • DirecTV lost just over a quarter of a million traditional […]
According to Dataxis research, 1.6 million people had subscribed to an SVoD platform in the third quarter of 2017 in Middle-East and North Africa (MENA). This represents a growth of +19 per cent compared to the previous quarter, and sheds light on the steady rise observed in the market. Among the elements driving the growth […]
Google could gain increased clout in the pay-TV market as interest from operators in Android TV picks up and creates a resulting surge in shipments of Android TV STBS, accoridng to a report from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Operators launched many Android TV STB trial deployments in 2016 and 2017 and many OEMs are beginning […]
More than half of TV consumers say their current favourite show comes from an online TV platform, according to new study from Hub Entertainment Research. Hub’s annual Conquering Content study tracks how TV consumers discover, choose, and watch content. For the first time since tracking began in 2014, viewers are now more likely to say […]
Parks Associates has released its list of the top 10 subscription OTT video services in the US market in 2017, based on number of subscribers. Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu continue to hold the top three slots while HBO Now made a significant move into the top five. Netflix Amazon Video Hulu MLB.TV HBO Now Starz […]
Canadians are increasingly turning to platforms and devices connected to the Internet for their video and audio content, according to the 2017 Communications Monitoring Report from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Canadians aged 18-34 years old are leading the trend with 23 per cent watching TV exclusively online. Nationally, 13 per cent of […]
The average UK mobile subscriber could consume as much as 18 GB of data per month in 2021, according to CCS Insight’s latest UK mobile operator forecast. With consumers’ appetite showing little sign of relenting, this would represent a massive seven-fold hike from today’s 2.5 GB average. Such a leap would require network operators to […]
More than 90 per cent of MPs in a new poll believe the UK creative industries are vitally important to the future of the UK’s economy, job creation and positive perceptions of Brand Britain. The poll by Dods Research for the industry members of the Creative Industries Council (CIC) also found that MPs’ support to […]