Research from IHS Screen Digest suggests that American viewing tastes are shifting away from discs and toward online video, with the information and analytics provider reporting that US households in 2011 decreased their spending on physical media purchases and rentals at a double-digit rate. Average spending on physical video media per US video household owning […]
A study from the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC), conducted by NDP Consulting, has revealed a direct and significant impact on jobs, productivity, and competitiveness in every state of the union. The report – IP Creates Jobs for America – measures IP-intensive companies by inputs such as research and development (R&D) […]
Based on extensive research conducted in two test markets (France and the UK), the research arm of consulting firm McKinsey has assessed the smart TV opportunity and determined how TV manufacturers, media/content providers, and telecoms operators should prepare for this new battleground. TV manufacturers regularly innovate with new features in an attempt to energize their […]
Brazilian pay-TV continues to expand at a spectacular rate. April saw a net growth in subs of 284,000 taking the total to some 13.95 million subscribing homes. America Movil (Net/Embratel) is the market leader with 54.2 per cent for its MSO Net and DTH Claro TV operations, numbering 7.57 million subs. The April growth was […]
The annual Cisco VNI Forecast expects worldwide devices and connections to grow to almost 19 billion_ nearly doubling from 2011 to 2016. The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011-2016), the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyse Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide quantitatively projects the significant amount of IP traffic expected […]
Europe’s online advertising market grew 14.5 per cent year-on-year to a market value of €20.9 billion. By comparison the overall European advertising market – excluding online – grew at just 0.8 per cent in the same time period. IAB Europe’s annual AdEx Benchmark survey shows that 1 in 5 advertising Euros in Europe is now […]
The value of imported drama series for European broadcasters was $5.99 billion in 2011, with the top 200 titles supplying 81 per cent ($4,829 million) of that total. The Imported Drama Series in Europe report estimated that the top 10 titles accounted for 23 per cent ($1,400 million) of the 2011 total value, with the […]
SES is well ahead with developing its five-pillar strategy for expansion, CEO Romain Bausch told investors and analysts at the operator’s Investors Day meeting in London last week. The ‘pillars’ themselves are straightforward enough but implementing them has created a huge amount of work and restructuring at the Luxembourg-based business. SES is now firmly focussed […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its new Residential Gateway Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey. The report delves into service providers’ strategies for deploying and pricing residential gateways, the applications driving their deployments, and their top picks for residential gateway vendors, services, technologies, and features. “With residential gateway revenue dropping because […]
Market researcher Mediametrie has reported there were nearly three million smart TVs in France in Q1, 2012 – meaning that 10.7 per cent of French homes had TVs that could access VoD or apps over the Internet. The number of homes with smart TVs rose by 40 per cent from the end of 2011. About […]