One per cent of consumers are generating half of all traffic. The top 10 per cent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 per cent of wireless bandwidth. Arieso the UK consultancy documented the statistical gap when it tracked 1.1 million customers of a European mobile operator during a 24-hour period in November. The gap between […]
The consumer tablet market hit a global high of 15.5 million units shipped in Q3 2011 climbing from 4.5 million in Q3 2010, according to the Tablet Tracking report from Futuresource Consulting. The USA leads the way in tablet adoption accounting for 46 per cent of global ownership, and exceeding an installed base of 24 […]
The proliferation of devices is increasing access to content, which recent data suggest is driving more consumption, according to consultancy firm Deloitte’s sixth edition State of the Media Democracy survey, which reveals that the introduction of new platforms has led to increases in the consumption of movies and books. The survey assesses media consumption preferences […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that 69 per cent of households in the US have at least one HDTV set – up from 17 per cent in 2006. Over the past five years, 52 per cent of US households adopted HDTV. In addition, 48 per cent of HDTV households have more […]
Driven by rising demand for fast Internet access, particularly from China and other developing regions, the global broadband subscriber base is set to grow by nearly 60 per cent in the coming years, with about 350 million new consumers projected to come online from 2011 to 2015. The number of broadband subscribers worldwide will amount […]
The growth of online TV viewing in the UK is slowing, according to figures from BARB. Almost 15 per cent of respondents to BARB’s biannual study, which tracked viewing habits over a week in November 2011, said they watched TV on a PC, laptop or tablet computer during that period – a rise of only […]
2012 will be a watershed year for the media industry that will see a decline in traditional TV consumption, according to Rich Greenfield of analyst firm BTIG. “We believe 2012 will be a watershed year for the media industry and serve as a historic inflection point for traditional TV consumption,” he writes in a blog […]
Researcher Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates says that in 2010 UK viewers watched 93 billion hours of TV, which works out to around 28 hours per person per week, an increase of 14 billion hours compared to 2006. While time-shifted content has contributed to the growth of TV consumption, linear broadcast has continued to grow: 80 […]
A report to clients from PINC Research firmly backed the nation’s cable and DTH TV sector on the dawn of the New Year which sees the industry adopt major structural changes, switching to an all-digital delivery system. PINC Research initiated its coverage on the sector, with a ‘buy’ recommendation on three cable and DTH players, […]
Consumer behaviour and TV set maker strategies are resulting in widely diverging TV product ranges across the world. While the industry is truly global, regional differences are increasing. For 3D, the most enthusiastic regions are Western Europe and China, while the mix of 3D in North America actually declined in Q3’11, according to the Q4’11 […]