Following several years of healthy growth, demand for set top boxes continues to climb this year, on track to reach 228 million units shipped globally, according to research from Futuresource Consulting. However, as demand from maturing pay-TV markets like North America and Western Europe begins to slow, the market will start to see moderate decline […]
Copper networks continue to be a cash cow for telcos, delivering broadband over DSL to more than 367 million subscribers worldwide in 2011. Fibre to the Home (FTTH) technologies bring ten times the bandwidth compared to advanced DSL technologies. However, upgrades to advanced forms of DSL require a fraction of the investment of upgrades to […]
Using a second screen while watching TV encourages more TV viewing and gives people more exposure to – and the opportunity to respond to – TV ads, a new study carried out for Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – by COG Research has revealed. ‘Screen Life: The View from […]
The “TV Everywhere” push by US cable networks is matched by increased demand by consumers to watch programming on smartphones and tablets. Interest in viewing television on mobile devices among adults climbed to 31 per cent in 2012 from 22 per cent in 2011, according to a survey by Beta Research. Among younger adults, ages […]
The UK is Western Europe’s leading market for connected devices, with an estimated 13.8 million devices receiving over-the-top video content at end-2011, a figure up 114.1 per cent year-over-year from 2010, according to SNL Kagan research. In 2011, UK households averaged 0.51 connected devices per home, up from 0.24 in 2010. SNL Kagan estimates the […]
About 370 million digital homes were added around the world between end-2007 and end-2011 – or an average of 93 million more digital homes each year, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Databook estimated that this took the digital TV household total for the 80 countries covered in the […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its latest Pay-TV Services and Subscribers report, which forecasts and analyses the telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video services markets. “Cable video still makes up over half of the global pay-TV market, but revenue growth is decelerating due to a slowdown in new subscribers, especially […]
Competition between TV networks to air top movie content on television is so intense that some stations are willing to pay eight-figure fees, in some cases committing to healthy per-box-office-dollar payment formulas even before the movies formally open on the big screen, according to an IHS Screen Digest US. Cable Network Intelligence report. Nearly 10,000 […]
May 2012 marked the first month that Nielsen has publicly reported streaming measurement on thousands of YouTube partners. The top five YouTube Partner channels, led by Vevo, Warner Music Group, Maker, Fullscreen and Machinima, combined for nearly 1.5 billion total streams. To put this into context, YouTube continues to be the top online video destination […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts vendor from its latest Home Networking Devices market share and forecast report. “Tablets, connected TVs, digital media players, and a growing list of other devices are driving sales of home networking devices, and this is nowhere more apparent than in North America, which captured 37 per cent of […]