A study of the content viewing behaviour of Filipino consumers, revealed that 34 per cent of consumers use a TV box which can be used to stream pirated television and video content. These TV boxes, also known as Illicit Streaming Devices (ISDs), allow users to access hundreds of pirated television channels and video-on-demand content, usually […]
Analyst firm Digital TV Research forecasts 60 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2018 and 2024 to take the global total to 1.08 billion. China will provide 19 million additional subs and India 26 million. However, the US will lose 14.4 million pay-TV subscribers between 2018 and 2024 – down by 16 per cent. “We have […]
The US pay-TV sector relies more on sports and National Football League (NFL) fans than ever before with 90 per cent of sports fans subscribing to pay-TV, according to a new survey on sports viewership, fandom, and betting by strategy consulting group Altman Vilandrie & Company. The survey, which polled 5000 US consumers in August […]
According to the second annual survey on connected automobile technologies from mobile, connected car, connected home and IoT Solutions provider Metova, Technology/Infotainment now outpaces Power, Interior Design and Seating and Storage Capacity and is on par with Exterior Design and Ratings and Reviews as a deciding factor in purchasing a new automobile. In addition, the […]
August brought declines across India on the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. Three different Internet providers in the country experienced declines in the month of August. D-VoiS fell 0.33 Megabits per second (Mbps) to a 2.57 Mbps average, […]
ListenFirst, the social analytics solution for the enterprise, has released its Q2 2019 State of Social TV report with key insights into social video trends and organic reach, how consumers are engaging with TV pages, and which TV genres, networks, and programmes are coming out on top on social media. ListenFirst’s report details the continued […]
A forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows signs of market recovery in the second half of 2019 and into 2020, pushing smartphone shipment growth back into positive territory. IDC expects shipment volumes to be nearly flat (-0.4 per cent) in the second half of 2019 while the market […]
Airlines that have successfully installed connected cabins have an immediate opportunity to win $33 billion (€29.88bn) in market share from competitors. That is the conclusion of new economic modelling from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in association with global mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat. The report, Sky High Economics – Chapter […]
Indian OTT entertainment platform Eros Now, and multinational professional services network KPMG in India have published an in-depth report on India’s OTT market which projects that India will have more than 500 million online video subscribers by FY 2023, making it the second biggest market in the world after China. According to the study, 87 […]
Research by Ampere Analysis looks at the rise and rise of SVoD in the Asia-Pac region and, in particular, in Australia and New Zealand. Subscription TV homes in Australia and New Zealand have already reached the inflection point where SVoD outstrips pay-TV. Australia reached this milestone in 2017, and New Zealand in 2018. SVoD has […]