The latest Worldwide IPTV Subscriber Market report from Research and Markets Ltd has found that the global IPTV subscriber market totaled around 65.7 million by the end of the first quarter of 2012, growing 34.5 per cent year-on-year. As IPTV penetration rate is near saturation in Western Europe, it is projected that Asia will become […]
Digital world measurement specialist comScore has confirmed the US Beta release of MMX Multi-Platform, the next generation of digital audience measurement and media planning. Building on MMX, Mobile Metrix and Video Metrix from comScore’s Audience Analytics suite, the product offers unduplicated accounting of audience size and demographics that reflects today’s multi-platform digital media environment, which […]
Over 220 million Smart TV sets will be sold worldwide in 2017, up from the 54 million that will be sold in 2012, according to Informa Telecoms & Media’s Smart TV device forecasts. Thirty one per cent of households worldwide will own at least one Smart TV in five years time, with household penetration much […]
Although general video subscriptions remain flat to slightly negative, a growing number of broadband households are doing without pay-tv, according to new research from TDG. The analyst firm finds that 13 per cent of broadband subscribers – some 11 million households – do not subscribe to cable-like pay-TV services. TDG’s latest report, PayTV Refugees: A […]
Perhaps proving once and for all that the need to be entertained at home makes TV spending counter-cyclical, it is revealed that over the last year Spaniards have spent 18 per cent more on pay-TV services, largely due to the increase of pay TV fees and pay TV subscribers, according to the latest survey by ONTSI, […]
Total revenues for Europe’s top pay-TV channels will reach $4.24 billion in 2012, according to a new report by Digital TV Research. The TV Channel Revenues in Europe report expects this figure to grow by $1.04 billion to reach $5.28 billion by 2017. The report covers 195 international channels/networks (non-premium) from 11 groups. The estimates […]
A study by Point Topic shows Europe is now half-way towards achieving its aim of giving all inhabitants access to superfast broadband by 2020. The study was produced for DG Connect, the department of the European Commission which is responsible for its “Digital Agenda” strategy. The purpose of the Digital Agenda is to harness the […]
The financial crisis is wreaking havoc with the Spanish broadcasters, who have now seen their ad revenues decline 50 per cet since 2007. At the annual meeting of UTECA, the private TV association, President Antonio Fernandez-Galiano warned of the critical financial situation of the channels and envisaged a gloomy year in 2013. “The situation (ad […]
According to the latest forecasts from Informa Telecoms & Media, the global online-video market will be worth $37 billion in 2017, driven by the popularity of services like Netflix and YouTube. This figure is made up of the three key video-revenue streams of advertising, subscriptions and transactions. Despite the market maturing, advertising will continue to […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its November 2012 Pay TV Services and Subscribers report. “Ongoing challenging economic conditions in the key revenue-generating markets of North America and Western Europe have resulted in slowing subscriber and revenue growth in the cable TV market,” notes Jeff Heynen, directing analyst for broadband access and […]