Pay-TV subscription, billing and customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Paywizard is teaming up with TV audience analytics expert Genius Digital to provide operators with a holistic view of their subscribers that the pair say will boost customer engagement. The new strategic partnership combines Genius Digital’s ability to access vast usage data and provide actionable insights […]
Australians’ love affair with TV continues, streaming an unprecedented 1.2 billion minutes of catch-up and live streaming TV in the past month, according to the latest OzTAM VPM 28 Day Rolling Report. In addition, 5.14 million Australians – the highest-ever number – are streaming Free Video on Demand (FVoD) content, eclipsing 3.53 million for Subscription […]
For the first time, pay-TV in Spain has surpassed the 6 million subscribers mark, according to the latest report from Spain’s competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). In the third quarter of 2016, pay-TV reached 6,006,326 subs, up almost 600,000 more than the previous quarter with 5,430,887. IPTV claimed the most, with […]
The number of pay-TV subscribers in Portugal reached 3.67 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2016, representing a growth of 145,000 (+4.1 per cent) on the previous year. According to data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom), the penetration rate for the service stood at 90 per cent (+3.6 per cent). Contributing […]
TV Everywhere (TVE) – effectively the ability for pay-TV customers to also watch traditional TV offers (DTH, cable, IPTV, terrestrial) on other screens such as PC, smartphones and tablets – has become available to
Numerous reports have been written on the national trend of “cord cutting” in the US, or homes eliminating their cable or satellite service and accessing their television content over the Internet and from antennae. For the second year in a row, 82 per cent of North American rural video consumers surveyed are still subscribing to […]
A survey by the DTG (conducted by Atomik Research) has found that UK consumers are enthusiastic buyers of Ultra HD displays. The DTG, a unique
Global internet advertising expenditure will grow 13 per cent to reach $205 billion (€189bn) in 2017, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. Internet advertising will attract 36.9 per cent of all advertising expenditure, up from 34 per cent in 2016. This will be
Findings from market research firm Hub Entertainment Research confirm that US consumers would prefer a TV service model where they select, and pay for, only the individual networks they’re most interested in watching. Respondents saw seven different potential structures for TV bundles—including the traditional pay-TV approaches that exist today, and several variations of à la […]
The number of pay-TV subs in North America [Canada and the US] will fall by 10 million from 112 million in the peak year of 2012 to 102 million in 2022 according to Digital TV Research. Although this marks a 9 per cent decline, this does not indicate a massive cord-cutting problem. However, the number […]