According to a study by Eurodata TV Worldwide, in 2016 France was ranked third in the TV export rankings globally (excluding one-off programmes), up one place from 2015. English language exporters are largely ahead: the US exported more than 1,600 programmes and the UK over 1,100. Germany and Canada are ranking fourth and fifth with […]
By the end of 2016, there were only 101.7 million lines of fixed telephony in Latin America, representing almost five million (5 per cent) less than those recorded in 2012. However, the largest drop was in revenues: in 2016, fixed telephony accounted for $15.5 million which represents 48 per cent less than in 2012. Furthermore, […]
Securing a 30 per cent share of Conditional Access spend, NAGRA emerged as market leader laying claim to significant share of Cisco’s foregone content security revenue, according to the IHS Markit Content Security: Vendor Analysis 2017 report According to the critical information, analytics and expertise source, 2016 was a pivotal year for the content security […]
As the global broadcasting industry heads to Amsterdam for IBC, CCS Insight has revealed the main themes it believes are shaping the sector. Paolo Pescatore, vice president of multiplay and media at CCS Insight, comments, “We are not expecting major announcements at IBC this year. One of the key themes is likely to be more […]
Research commissioned by online video solutions provider, Brightcove has revealed that eight in ten (81 per cent) European retailers anticipate a future as a media company, with 85 per cent already looking for ways to target consumers with content in their living rooms – as they look to take on traditional broadcasting giants. Research conducted […]
A major 150-page research report from equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNP-Paribas does not make good reading for Europe’s traditional FTA broadcasters, both commercial and public and even for established pay-TV operators. The study says that many broadcasters believe that European TV is different from those in the US, and that there is no way […]
French TV sales are in decline: less than 2 million TV sets were sold over the first six months of 2017 against 3.9 million in the same period last year. This represents a 46 per cent decrease according to GfK. The research company forecasts around 4.9 million units will be sold this year, around 150,000 […]
Netflix and Amazon Prime Video will boost the Eastern European SVoD sector considerably. The Eastern Europe OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from Digital TV Research estimates that Netflix will have 3.43 million subscribers by 2022, nearly triple its 2016 result. Amazon Prime Video’s achievements will be less impressive, but will still have 1.12 million […]
According to digital consumer resource GlobalWebIndex, 20 per cent of Internet users watch Amazon Prime Video each month, whether on their own account or via someone else’s, but this is still a distance behind the 37 per cent who say the same about Netflix. As Amazon and Netflix continue
The final conclusions of the 2017 Pay-TV Innovation Forum – the global research programme examining the state of innovation in the pay-TV market published by content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA, in partnership with research and strategy consultancy MTM – suggest that the pay-TV industry is in a period of unprecedented global change, […]