The digital revolution in the entertainment business has reached a new tipping point with Britons now spending nearly 80 per cent of their expenditure on entertainment online, according to the Entertainment Retailers Association. And for the first time, entertainment has gone ‘pay monthly’ with
According to Michael Boreham, Senior Consultant at Futuresource Consulting, SVoD uptake in China is being driven by the younger consumer group, with the market having huge potential for growth driven by the desire for premium content and as the generational shift in consumer behaviour adopts SVoD as the norm. In Boreham’s study – The Cultural […]
According to data from Dataxis for the year ending 2016, Africa pay-TV subscribers stand at approximately 18.7 million subscribers which represent an increase of approximately 2 million subscribers compared to the previous year. Out of the 18.7 million subscribers, 14 million are DTH subscribers and the remaining represent mostly pay DTT with limited cable and […]
South Africa’s Multichoice/DStv dominates pay-TV in Zimbabwe. But there’s a new player in town in the shape of StarTimes-backed DTH service StarSat. StarTimes/StarSat is now operational in 16 sub-Saharan African countries, and such is its impact that in Nigeria – for example – StarTimes is now occupying the number 1 pay-TV slot. StarTimes says it […]
The top 10 television service providers in the US lost 937,000 television customers between them in 2016, according to the informitv Multiscreen Index. They collectively account for 88.69 million television customers. So that represents an annual subscriber loss of 1.05 per cent. Yet the number of television subscribers to the top 10 services actually rose […]
For the first time ever, the percentage of free or paid streaming video subscribers in the US (68 per cent) has caught up to the number of paid TV subscribers (67 per cent), according to research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The study, The Changing Landscape for Video and Content, also shows
Fresh analysis by Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – of 2016 video consumption in the UK shows how total video viewing – and viewing of video advertising – breaks down. The video analysis combined 2016 data from The Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB), comScore, the IPA’s Touchpoints 2016 study, […]
The Nordic region comprising Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden leads the SVoD market in Europe. According to Dataxis research, the Nordic region represents almost 20 per cent of all SVoD subscriptions in Europe at Q4 2016. In the same quarter, the number of SVoD subscriptions in Nordic region is approximately equivalent to the number of […]
Akamai Technologies, a global player in content delivery network (CDN) services, has released its Fourth Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation. “Internet […]
The rapid growth of the virtual reality (VR) market is attracting substantial private and federal investments to innovative start-ups, mostly in the areas of video, services and solutions, games and apps reports Frost & Sullivan. With technological advances and improvements in user experience, VR will become more ubiquitous in industries such as healthcare, automotive, education, […]