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Parks: European smart home market “awakens”

Parks Associates has released a report showing that despite an initially conservative approach to IoT opportunities, many different types of EU companies are now pioneering approaches and introducing beneficial IoT use cases for their customers. According to IoT Connectivity in Europe: Value of Connected Products, companies in this space across the globe are exploring strategies […]

September 7, 2017

Netflix ensures stable UK production revenues

UK TV production sector international revenues grew by 5.3 per cent in the past year and have tripled in the past eight years, the Pact 2016 Census published reveals. From 2015 to 2016, primary international commissions grew from £430 million (€469m) to £468 million and this was in part driven by commissions from standalone digital […]

September 5, 2017

Oculus Rift gains market share

Facebook’s Oculus Rift VR headset is gaining market share on digital gaming platform Steam, according to data from Valve, with the Vive’s main rival increasing its hold on the PC platform by 8.1 per cent in August. Valve has

September 5, 2017

Australian online ad market up 11.7%

The Australian online advertising market has once again delivered double-digit growth figures increasing by A$799 million (€536m) to reach A$7.6 billion for the full financial year ending June 30th 2017, a 11.7 per cent increase over the prior financial year. “Online advertising continues to deliver robust double digit growth and now accounts for close to […]

September 5, 2017

Spotify, Deezer lead online music market in LatAm

According to the latest Dataxis’ quarter research, in the first half of the year 2017, total online music services for 11.2 million paid accounts. Spotify leads the market with 79 per cent of subscribers followed by Deezer with 13.2 per cent. Dataxis monitors on a quarterly basis paid accounts for premium online music services in […]

September 1, 2017

Australia: Connected TV 35% of broadcaster online video

IAB Australia’s Video Council – the trade association for online advertising in Australia – has released the country’s first white paper on Connected TV (CTV) which reveals that CTV now accounts for up to 35 per cent of Australian broadcaster’s online video supply. The study, Connected TV: The New Era of Television, examines why, despite […]

August 31, 2017

Ultra-broadband 75% of total LatAm connections in 2022

Dataxis research shows that ultra-broadband subscribers (fibre, high-speed cable and VDSL) will take an increasing share on the total connections in Latin America in the upcoming years. Dataxis expects 25.6 million next-generation broadband connections by the end of this year, which will represent 36 per cent of the total access. Furthermore, this share will continue […]

August 30, 2017

UK broadcasters risk losing £1bn a year to online rivals

UK broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV, BT and Sky could lose a combined £1 billion (€1.07bn) per year if rival services from Amazon, Facebook and YouTube become dominant players in the TV industry over the next decade, according to a report by by OC&C Strategy Consultants. The report says that the TV industry could […]

August 29, 2017

North America to add 59m SVoD subs by 2022

The North American SVoD sector is by far the most mature in the world, with 112 million SVoD subscribers by end-2016. However, there is plenty of growth left in the sector. The SVoD total is forecast to climb to 171 million by 2022 – up by 59 million on 2016 or by 53 per cent. […]

August 29, 2017

Analyst: Roku top streaming media player

Findings from Parks Associates indicate that Roku is increasing its lead in the streaming media player landscape. As of Q1 2017, 37 per cent of streaming media players owned by US broadband households are Roku devices, up from one-third in Q1 2016. The firm’s latest industry report – Reinventing CE: Transforming Devices to Service Platforms […]

August 24, 2017