Faster bandwidth, growing 4G coverage, ever-increasing smartphone and pay-TV penetration, improving payment options, falling data tariffs and rising per capita income are set to collectively spur OTT video market in APAC region. Mobile is an important platform for the growth of OTT video service market owing to poor fixed network infrastructure in many APAC countries. […]
Netflix is the most positively talked-about brand among UK millennials, data from YouGov BrandIndex reveals. The streaming service has topped YouGov’s rankings, which considers which brands 18-34 year-olds have discussed with friends in favourable terms. In a list dominated
A total of 329 children’s TV channels (including the various linguistic versions) are currently on offer in Europe, accounting for 6 per cent of all national and international TV channels established in Europe. One children’s TV network features on average 2.6 linguistic versions, according to data from the European Audiovisual Observatory. The quarter of all […]
Reacting to AT&T’s Stock Market guidance that it expects to lose 390K traditional video subscribers, netted against a gain of 300K OTT subscribers, Craig Moffett, Partner and Senior Analyst at research firm MoffettNathanson has suggested that, in addition to general cord-cutting pressures, satellite TV is particularly affected. AT&T’s 8-K filing states: “The video net losses […]
Not only has Netflix’s audience grown significantly in the past two years, but the composition of its user base has changed dramatically as well, according to a DeepProfile study from consumer intelligence research platform CivicScience. Back in May of 2015, CivicScience published a detailed study on the profile of Netflix users, as well as people who […]
The latest forecast from research firm CCS Insight shows the global mobile phone market remaining stable for the next five years, with about 2 billion mobile phones sold every year. However, this steady total masks underlying shifts as feature phones continue to decline as a total proportion of the market, 4G technology dominates sales and […]
The TV market in Western Europe was worth €99.4 billion at the end of 2016, accounting for an annual growth rate of 1.8 per cent. This compares to a 17.5 per cent growth over the period 2006-2016, at an average annual rate (CAGR) of over 1 per cent. These are the key conclusions of the […]
The prospects for immense 5G growth in the Middle East and North Africa has emerged from a study by the GSM Association and released at an event in Dubai on Oct 8th and saying that Middle East mobile operators will be 5G “early adopters”. Their study (The Mobile Economy: Middle East and North Africa 2017) […]
Findings from the Ericsson ConsumerLab study suggest that linear and VoD viewing will be almost equal in just three years, with 50 per cent of all viewing being done on a mobile screen, with half of this done on the smartphone alone. The eighth edition of Ericsson’s annual ConsumerLab TV and Media report details the […]
The number of Italians using OTT services reached 19.1 million in June 2017, up by 2.9 million or 18 per cent on September 2016. This corresponds to 58 per cent of Italian internet users aged 16 years and over, according to a study on the online video content market in Italy by the EY consultancy. […]