The number of fixed broadband lines in Italy with speeds higher than 10 Mbps has surpassed 16 million units (+770,000 year-on-year) in the first quarter of 2017. Data from the Communications Observatory, published by Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom), show a drop of accesses in xDSL technology (-600,000). However, accesses in other technologies grew by 1.37 […]
Digi-Capital has been saying for the last couple of years that Augmented/Virtual Reality is the fourth wave of consumer technology, and that AR could become much bigger than VR. But AR itself is not one giant wave, it’s a set of four big ones: mobile AR software, mobile AR hardware, tethered smartglasses and standalone smartglasses. […]
According to the latest findings from consultancy firm Dataxis’s quarterly research (Q1 2017), the top five pay-TV operator groups (América Móvil, AT&T, Televisa Group, Telefónica Group and Clarín Group) account for almost two-thirds of the market, with the top three making up more than half the sector. The leader, América Móvil, amasses one fifth of […]
According to research from consultancy firm Dataxis, pay-TV piracy reached 7 per cent of TV households in Latin America, with 11.8 million consumers. Dataxis suggests total illegal access to pay-TV could be positioned as the third largest player on the market, behind América Móvil and DirecTV. However, Dataxis predicts that piracy will maintain a slight […]
The negotiations for US TV’s primetime upfront for the 2017-18 season are nearly complete and Media Dynamics estimates that total ad revenue for the broadcast TV networks and cable channels amounted to $19.73 billion (€17.13bn), an increase of 5.9 per cent over the previous upfront. While the broadcast TV networks sold approximately $9.1 billion of […]
Premium online video services have started to gain traction in Asia Pacific but have a long way to go before achieving mass adoption, according to a new report from independent consulting and research provider Media Partners Asia (MPA). MPA, in partnership with consumer research specialist BDRC Continental, has surveyed more than 15,000 Internet users across […]
Games software/hardware combined are set to drive more than $150 billion (€129.85bn) revenue for the first time ever in 2017, with software taking around three-quarters and hardware around one-quarter of the total, reports Digi-Capital. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9 per cent for the next 5 years, games software/hardware combined could top […]
Middle East & North Africa OTT TV episodes and movies will generate revenues of $1.75 billion (€1.53bn) by 2022; more than quadruple the $428 million recorded in 2016, according to a report from Digital TV Research. According to the Middle East and North Africa OTT TV & Video Forecasts report, SVoD’s dominance
The pay-TV market in the US started 2017 with a slight decline, according to research firm Dataxis. The total number of subscribers reached 100.3 million for the first quarter of 2017, which represent a fall of -0.61 per cent (-612 000 subscribers) compared to Q4 2016. This trend of the market shows an erosion from […]
According to findings from market research and consulting company Parks Associates, 59 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. The firm’s OTT Video Market Tracker service notes that only 6 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to any other OTT service without also having a subscription to one of […]