Content monetisation technology and services specialist FreeWheel has released its Video Monetisation Report – an executive briefing of trends it observed around monetising professional video content for Q2 2013. It hopes the report will provide some insight into best practices and broader trends for how publishers, advertisers, and consumers are all playing a role in […]
A Parks Associates survey of 10,000 US broadband households shows that 44 per cent have a subscription to some kind of online video service (SVoD), such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, or Amazon. Younger consumers are more likely to subscribe to OTT video services, and 8 per cent of consumers 18-24 have never subscribed to a […]
The Discovery Channel is the widest distributed network in Europe according to a new report – TV Channel Distribution in Europe – from Digital TV Research. Covering 270 international channels/networks across 212 major operators in 43 EMEA countries, the report concluded that the Discovery Channel was available on 171 platforms. Ranked second was Fox’s National […]
A research paper from an Australian academic has concluded that ‘three strikes’ or graduated response laws designed to reduce Internet-based copyright infringement are by and large ineffective and do not direct users towards legitimate sources of content. The study – Evaluating Graduated Response – by Rebecca Giblin at the Monash University Faculty of Law, notes […]
Based on forecasts for 97 countries, a report from Research and Markets Ltd forecasts on-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programmes will reach $6.0 billion in 2018, up by 44 per cent from $4.2 billion in 2012. On-demand TV generated just 2.3 per cent of the $184 billion total pay-TV revenues in 2012. However, […]
A report from IHS Screen Digest says that a small group of niche consumers is continuing to back Blu-ray 3D, and that sales Blu-ray 3D sales in the US grew by 56 per cent last year, and that Blu-ray 3D – in terms of value – now makes up 9.5 per cent of the whole […]
The digital rights management (DRM) market will grow at a rate of 12 per cent annually to become a $1.2 billion market by 2018, while the related conditional access (CAS) market will decline slightly to dip below $1.5 billion annually, suggests ABI Research. Opportunities within the DRM market include multiple components, comprising authentication, intellectual property […]
MRG predicts video delivery vendor revenue will top $580 million in 2017. As the process of delivering that professional video becomes increasingly complex, many factors have come together in support of MRG’s forecast: The amount of video is growing exponentially – In April 2013, statistics released by comScore indicated that 1.3 billion people worldwide watch […]
The global pay-TV market continues to grow in the first two quarters of 2013, adding 23 million new subscribers for a 3 per cent increase, according to ABI Research. In particular, telco TV and satellite TV growth was robust while cable and terrestrial pay-TV services experienced virtually flat growth. “ABI Research expects that worldwide pay-TV […]
An estimated 2.9 million Portuguese households subscribed to pay-TV services at the end of August 2013. According to the Marktest Telecommunications Barometer, this equates to a 71.3 per cent penetration rate for pay-TV services, which represents a drop from the end of last year when the figure stood at 72.5 per cent. This is the […]