Kantar, the data, insights and consulting company, has announced Q3 2020 results from its Entertainment On Demand service in the UK, the newest offering from Kantar to help entertainment industry and investors understand the full entertainment subscription service consumer journey. The service reveals the following consumer behaviours in the three months to September 2020: Amazon […]
According to The Diffusion Group — a division of Screen Engine/ASI — by 2025 more than half of US broadband households will live without a MVPD (multichannel video programming distributon) service. During this time, pay-TV services will lose 36 per cent of their 2020 subscriber base, up roughly four-fold from the prior 5-year period (-9.5 […]
With the world recently passing 100 commercial 5G networks, the shift to the new technology is poised to accelerate now that 5G smartphones are abundant and cost significantly less than widely expected a year ago. By the end of 2020, there will be nearly a quarter of a billion 5G connections worldwide, and this
Online video is more popular than ever with the average global viewer watching nearly eight hours (seven hours, 55 minutes) per week. With consumers homebound during the pandemic, 46 per cent of UK viewers signed up to additional streaming services and video viewing increased
Worldwide pay-TV market growth has slowed over the past few years due to the shift from video consumption to online streaming. The Covid-19 pandemic is further accelerating the cord-cutting trend, resulting in higher pay-TV churn in many markets. Global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research, forecasts
SVoD has solidified its position as a clear consumer favourite in the entertainment landscape, as the pandemic has accelerated its adoption in 2020, building on already strong momentum. Futuresource Consulting’s latest Living With Digital survey provides further detail on the evolution of the overall VoD sector, which also shows a marked increase in transactional digital […]
Findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s new study, Privacy + Piracy, highlight US consumers’ concerns about these two issues. Privacy: Consumers Are Not as Excited as the Industry about Addressable Advertising on Smart TVs, But are Leaving Their Data Vaults “Ajar” This reticence may hamper the wider rollout of addressable advertising on Smart TVs. But there […]
Research and Markets, in its latest report titled Satellite Antenna – Global Market Trajectory & Analytics, says that the global market for professional Satellite Antennas estimated at $2.3 billion (€1.9bn) in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of $3.6 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of […]
Mediavision’s analysis of household spend on media services points towards a stabilisation in the third quarter, following substantial pandemic effects in Q2. During this spring, online video services reached new record levels which have now normalised. Meanwhile, Mediavision concludes that spend on digital text subscriptions increase substantially. Mediavision’s Q3 analysis shows that Swedish households spend […]
An update of the European Audiovisual Observatory’s LUMIERE VoD film directory shows the presence of 41,550 European film titles (produced or minority co-produced by countries of the European Union and Council of Europe) in 367 different VoD catalogues (119 TVoD and 248 SVoD catalogues), representing 472,180 film presences at the end of August 2020. When the number of available