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Research: Liverpool most-televised Premier League team

Manchester City may have pipped Liverpool to the Premier League title in the 2018/19 season, but it was Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool that topped the charts for the most televised team in the UK last season. According to WherestheMatch.com, the live football on TV companion that shows which teams are playing, when and on which TV channel […]

July 23, 2019

Report: Netflix, Foxtel tie-up carries opportunities for both

Ahead of a tie-up announcement, research from Roy Morgan shows 13.355 million Australians now have access to either Netflix or Foxtel via a household subscription to either service equivalent to nearly two-thirds (64.4 per cent) of all Australians aged 14+. Analysing the two services separately shows 11.5 million Australians now have a household subscription to […]

July 23, 2019

Survey: Australians trust ABC, distrust Facebook

A survey conducted by Roy Morgan reveals that while Facebook – and social media generally – remains deeply distrusted in Australia, whilst ABC, the country’s national broadcaster, is still by far the nation’s most trusted media organisation. Almost half of all Australians (44 per cent) distrust social media, compared to only 7 per cent who […]

July 23, 2019

Zenith: Brands shying away from Internet advertising

The Internet looks set to lose its lead as the fastest-growing sector of the global advertising market for the first time in two decades, as brands seeking risk-free space to spend their ad budgets turn to traditional media such as cinema and billboards. According to Zenith Media Agency, the global Internet advertising market will surrender […]

July 22, 2019

India: 79% of smartphone users watch OTT apps

techARC-Unomer has released some key insights about OTT entertainment app (live and VoD) penetration in India.  The insights are from Unomer AppMap, an in-depth analysis of smartphone and consumer data collected from over 5 million Smartphone users across the country. 4 out of 5 Smartphone users are having at least one OTT entertainment platform which […]

July 22, 2019

Report: Virtual assistants to exceed 2.3bn shipments in 2023

The market for virtual assistants (VAs) shows strong positive momentum, driven forward by a combination of rising consumer demand and improvements in the enabling technologies. According to a report from Futuresource Consulting, global shipments will exceed 2.3 billion units by 2023, up from a projected 1.1 billion for 2019, with a CAGR of 20 per […]

July 22, 2019

Survey: Smart speaker users desire better sound

As smart speaker adoption continues to climb, more than half of existing owners desire a smart speaker with better sound quality than their current device, while a similar number would pay more for it. That’s according to an audio tech lifestyles consumer survey from Futuresource Consulting, conducted in the USA, UK, Germany, Japan and China. […]

July 19, 2019

Report: Households with pay-TV/SVoD combos increasing

Pay TV-only households continue to decline on a global scale, while SVoD-only and pay-TV/SVoD combinations are increasing, according to Ampere Analysis. Among those taking any subscription television service, a combination of pay-TV, premium channel and SVoD is the most common, followed by pay-TV and SVoD and SVoD-only. The proportion of households combining pay-TV, premium channel […]

July 18, 2019

Survey: 46% of UK ‘overwhelmed’ by range of broadband bundles

UK consumers are feeling increasing overwhelmed by the range of broadband and content bundles on offer, according to the a report from EY’s annual digital home survey of 2,500 UK consumers. Nearly half of households (46 per cent) in the latest survey (2018) believe there is too much choice in the market, up from 43 […]

July 18, 2019

Report: UK CE markets looks set to fend off Brexit uncertainty

The UK consumer electronics (CE) retail market generated £19.2 billion (€21.3bn) in 2018, with further growth of 4 per cent expected this year, even with the economic uncertainty surrounding Brexit, according to a forthcoming report from Futuresource Consulting. “The UK CE market is based around ten major product categories,” says Jack Wetherill, Principle Analyst at […]

July 18, 2019