Research: Ads raising NEXTGEN TV awareness
New NEXTGEN TV advertising, with a debut introduction in late 2020 on local television stations in the US, is resonating strongly with consumers, according to research from consultancy firm Magid.…
Report: India, Korea & China to drive pay-TV growth
Total Asia Pacific pay-TV industry revenue, comprised of subscription fees and local and regional advertising sales, contracted by 3 per cent in 2020 to reach $53 billion, according to Asia…
Research: 27% DTC SVoDs shared
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that 82 per cent of US households have at least one streaming video service from eleven top direct-to-consumer (DTC) and subscription video on-Demand (SVoD)…
Report: US net performed well during pandemic
A report from industry body the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) analysing US Internet performance over the course of the pandemic has found that that the ecosystem as a…
Spain: DTT loses ground
The growth of IPTV and satellite TV has seen DTT significantly decline as the main TV distribution system, going from 60.3 per cent of households which were watching daily TV…
Analyst: E European SVoD finally takes off
Eastern Europe’s SVoD sector is finally taking off, prompted mainly by launches by global platforms such as Disney+ and HBO Max, according to the Eastern Europe OTT TV & Video…
Report: 5G set for 2021 investment boom
5G is entering the third year of an anticipated 10- to 15-year technology cycle with the wind in its sails, according to a study conducted by Bloomberg Intelligence (BI). As…
Russia: Pandemic drives legal service usage
Findings from Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, estimate the revenue of the video piracy market in Russia in 2020 at $59 million. The market decline…
Sweden: Families prefer Disney+ over Netflix
The launch of Disney+ in 2020 fundamentally changed the competitive landscape for streaming in Sweden in many ways – but perhaps most notably in the battle over families with young…
Data: US upstream growth rate at 350% in pandemic
With business hours consumption leading the way, US broadband upstream traffic growth during 2020 was 350 per cent of historic rates, according to an OVBI Special Report issued by OpenVault, a…
Data: 954,000 watch Snyder’s Justice League on Sky
Samba TV reports that 954,000 UK households watched the colour version of Zack Snyder’s Justice League cut between March 18th and 24th on Sky Cinema Premiere. Almost half (48 per…
Study: Watch Parties gain foothold during pandemic
A study by The Diffusion Group finds one-in-seven adult SVoD users co-watched a TV show or movie with friends or family via an online watch party during the pandemic. “The…
Report: Social video new SVoD battlefield
Social media platform SaaS provider Tubular Labs has released its SVoD 2021 report, The New Battlefield: How SVODs Leverage Social Video to Win the Streaming Wars, which looks at how…
90% of UK adults used BBC services in last 12 months
More than 90 per cent of UK adults used BBC services each week, across the last 12 months – with a monthly figure of 97 per cent. There was also…
Ireland: Survey highlights broadband importance
The latest Connectivity Survey from Ireland’s electronic communications sector regulator ComReg highlights the important role of broadband services for remote working and the likely take-up of faster broadband services in…
Telco buyers reveals most influential analysts
A report on the most influential analyst house – featured as part of an independent survey commissioned by B2B technology PR agency CCgroup, produced in collaboration with Sapio Research –…