In 2019, the entertainment genre still featured prominently on television, according to the most recent edition of the Entertainment TV Report conducted by Glance which studied this category across 11 countries. Looking at prime-time in particular, across the 91 channels in the study, on average close to 4 programmes out of 10 were entertainment formats and these […]
Global unit shipments of flat-panel displays (FPD) are expected to plunge by 11.1 per cent in 2020 as the coronavirus crisis cripples demand for televisions and smartphones, according to Omdia. FPD shipments are set to total 3.2 billion units in 2020, down from 3.6 billion in 2019. The market has been undergoing low-single-digit increases and […]
International research firm Parks Associates has released research showing 53 per cent of US broadband households claim that they value technology more now than before, following the outbreak of Covid-19 and the resulting social distancing and stay-at-home orders across the country. The research, fielded between March 8th and April 3rd to US heads of broadband […]
Deal activity in the first quarter of 2020 was 26 per cent down on Q1 2019. Covid-19 lock-downs in Q2 2020 will cause the M&A market to contract further, says GlobalData, a data and analytics company. GlobalData’s recent report, M&A in TMT – 2019 round-up, shows that, in 2019, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity grew […]
Parrot Analytics, a specialist in content demand data and analytics, has found that the share of demand for Apple’s five month old SVoD service Apple TV+ is up over 10 per cent since March 11th, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Coronavirus a global pandemic. While the new platform still accounts for a […]
The latest Worldwide Media Box report from Futuresource Consulting explores the future prospects for the media streamer and set-top box (STBs) market, as consumer demand gradually shifts away from traditional pay-TV toward more flexible SVoD services. “With combined media box shipment growth of just 1.1 per cent in 2019 and the set-top box market flat, […]
605, a television measurement and analytics company, has published insights revealing increased viewership of news and religious programming in March 2020 as Covid-19 spread across the US. The insights were derived from 605 PLATF0RM, a web-based application that provides national television networks, advertisers and agencies with measurement and analysis across linear, over-the-air, DVR and STB […]
The third season premiere of Killing Eve yielded impressive results in the UK, according to demand data analytics firm Parrot Analytics. Compared to the premiere day demand of Season 2, UK demand for the current season on premiere day was up 29 per cent. Pre-release demand for Killing Eve Season 3 had been on a […]
Two pending Federal Communications Commission (FCC) WiFi proposals would add at least $183.44 billion (€167.24bn) to the US economy over the next five years, according to the findings of a study on the FCC’s proposals to open the 5.9 GHz band and 6 GHz band to WiFi, prepared for WifiForward – an ad hoc, broad-based […]
A study from Juniper Research found that global spending on digital commerce will fall by 14 per cent in 2020 as lockdowns and reductions in consumer spend are felt. Spending will fall from $11.2 trillion in 2019 to $9.7 trillion. The research, Digital Commerce Coronavirus Analysis: Impact Assessments & Market Forecasts 2020-2024, identified the digital […]