Research from Parks Associates finds that subscriptions, formerly representing just over half of total online video spending in 2012, now account for nearly 86 per cent of all online spending on TV and movies. The research comes from the firm’s OTT Video Market Tracker, which includes an exhaustive analysis of market trends and profiles of […]
The Asia Pacific online video industry will generate $27 billion (€24.4bn) in advertising and subscription revenue this year, up 24 per cent Y/Y from 2018, according to a new report, Asia Pacific Online Video & Broadband Distribution 2020, from research, advisory and consulting firm Media Partners Asia (MPA). This pie is forecast to expand at […]
When US consumer advice body Consumer Reports asked its members for feedback on their pay-TV, home Internet, and bundled plans, most companies got poor marks for value and many for customer service. A good percentage of people said they were thinking of cancelling their pay-TV contracts with their cable or satellite company, and acknowledged frustration […]
The UK’s television industry is strongly skewed towards people from privately-educated backgrounds, according to research on the sector’s diversity from regulator Ofcom . Ofcom’s annual Diversity and Equal Opportunities in Television report examines the social and economic background of the television industry for the first time this year. It also reports on companies’ progress in […]
Television content produced or co-produced in Canada has the highest rate of global travelability – the ability for local content to attract audience demand outside of the country where it was originally produced and aired – compared to any other market, according to research conducted by Parrot Analytics on behalf of the Canada Media Fund (CMF). Canadian content achieved […]
Among the 215 million households in the sub-Saharan African region, around 102 million have access to television in 2018, according to figures from Dataxis. Even though the penetration is progressing, reaching 42 per cent in 2018 up from 40 per cent in 2017, television still has a long way to go before being fully penetrated […]
A profile of six new SVoD players launching in the American market from late 2019 to the first half of 2020 has just been published by Ampere Analysis. Four of these new players are studio-led: Disney+, Viacom’s BET+, WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and NBCU’s streaming service. Only Apple TV+ and short-form start-up Quibi are new to […]
The average person will spend 100 minutes each day watching online video in 2021, up from 84 minutes this year, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2019 report. That’s the equivalent of watching 25 continuous days of video in 2021. The amount of time people spend viewing online video has grown rapidly across the world, […]
The 5G market is developing much more quickly than the previous generation 4G LTE standard, with a total 31 5G commercial service launches globally by the end of the second quarter of 2019, according to IHS Markit | Technology, now a part of Informa Tech. Amid a burst of launches in the second quarter, the […]
The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 was the most watched ICC event ever, with a global cumulative average audience of 1.6 billion for live coverage, a 38 per cent increase over the 2015 edition and a unique broadcast audience of 706 million viewers, demonstrating the phenomenal reach and power of live cricket around the […]