Pay-TV subscribers in Spain watch more free-to-air (FTA) channels than pay-TV on their pay-TV platforms. A report from the consultancy firm Barlovento Comunicación reveals that 67 per cent of TV viewing on pay-TV platforms corresponds to FTA channels. Only 33 per cent watch pay-TV channels on the pay-TV platforms with Movistar La Liga, Fox, AXN […]
The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has released an annual report on Russian TV. This year’s report on pay-TV and cord cutting was written by J’son and Partners Consulting and presented at the Observatory’s Moscow conference. 1. Russian pay-TV market By the end of 2018, 43.2 million viewers were […]
An Ofcom report monitoring UK consumer supplier switching in the communications market reveals that in the last 12 months: 12 per cent have switched broadband provider 12 per cent have switched mobile phone provider 11 per cent have switched landline provider The figures also show a possible reason behind this activity, as providers are failing […]
TV Time along with UTA IQ, UTA’s data and analytics group, conducted a study titled Beyond the Big Three to understand consumer sentiment surrounding the new streaming media landscape during the current period of disruption. The study focused on awareness,
Apple is set to launch its new streaming service Apple TV+ in more than 100 countries around the world on November 1st. In Sweden, interest for the service is already high among consumers, reports analysis and consultancy firm Mediavision. The service is attractively priced at 59 SEK per month (€5.45), corresponding to about half the […]
Hub’s Conquering Content study has measured subscription likelihood for four upcoming TV streaming services: Disney+ and Apple TV+ (both launching November), HBO Max and NBC’s Peacock (both slated for 2020). Highlights from the study: 1) Consumers are more likely to have heard of Disney+ than the other upcoming services.
The average consumer now spends an estimated 30.73 hours per week on digital entertainment, reports MIDiA Research, an analysis, data and research company. This works out to approximately 4.5 hours per day. Allocating eight hours of work and seven hours of sleep, consumers then have about 4.5 hours per day left to do things like […]
UK adspend rose 5.8 per cent year-on-year to reach £6 billion (€6.9bn) in Q2 2019, marking UK advertising’s 24th consecutive quarter of market growth. Adspend over the first six months of 2019 was 5.2 per cent higher than a year earlier, at £12 billion. These figures are contained within the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report. The […]
The Spanish video entertainment market is continuing to show impressive growth overall, with consumer spend set to exceed €3 billion in 2019 for the first time, helped by an improving economic environment as well as rapid modernisation of digital infrastructure. Growth is primarily bring driven by subscription uptake across both pay-TV and SVoD services, whilst […]
Despite early stage virtual reality market and augmented reality market valuations softening in a transitional period, total global AR/VR start-up valuations are now at $45 billion (€40.5bn) globally (over $67 billion including non-pure play AR/VR start-ups discussed below). More than $8 billion of this figure has been returned to investors through M&A already, with the […]