Brightcove, a global provider of cloud services for video, has published its annual OTT TV market study for Asia, The 2019 Asia OTT Research Report, conducted with research partner YouGov, a global public opinion and data company. The study polled 9,000 participants across nine countries in Asia, including 1,000 consumers in Singapore. The survey was […]
Using a unique evaluation grid, a report from digital economy think tank, IDATE DigiWorld, has delivered a rundown of the countries emerging as the globe’s 5G pioneers. The ranking compares 11 countries from around the world. This includes
EE, the official technology partner of Glastonbury Festival, has revealed that over the course of the iconic event an epic 103.6 terabytes of mobile data was used, almost double the total from 2017 and almost 1,000 times as much as in 2010. This was the first festival in the UK to have 5G mobile coverage, […]
StarzPlay, the SVoD service in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has been ranked as the region’s leading platform in terms of subscriptions for the second consecutive year, according to the IHS Markit Pay TV & Online Video Report MENA 2019. StarzPlay has successfully retained its lead position with 29 per cent market share […]
Total cross-platform television viewing times across the US and major European markets are declining as consumers increasingly turn to non-linear platforms as a substitute for traditional TV viewing, according to IHS Markit. Excluding social media, total average daily video viewing time for the countries analysed stood at 273.7 minutes per-person per-day in 2018. This compares […]
Since Q3 2016, US and European viewers of videos on Facebook have declined from 28 per cent to 23 per cent of internet respondents. YouTube also recorded a slight decline from 70 per cent to 66 per cent, according to data from Ampere Analysis. Over the same period Netflix viewers have increased from
Market analyst Canalys forecasts that 5G-enabled smartphone shipments will reach nearly 800 million units in 2023, accounting for 51.4 per cent of all smartphone shipments, passing 4G smartphones five years after commercial launch. The CAGR between 2019 and 2023 will be 179.9 per cent, while vendors will ship nearly 1.9 billion devices to market market […]
In the first quarter of this year, the smart home market in Europe grew 23.9 per cent, reaching 21.3 million units shipped to the region, according to data from International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Western Europe is responsible for 88.3 per cent of the region share, but Central and Eastern […]
Worldwide TV shipments are riding high, ending 2018 with the strongest growth rate this decade, with value up by 6 per cent, according to a market report from Futuresource Consulting. The report also reveals that 8K shipments, despite major obstacles, will grow considerably from 0.2 million units in 2019, with 130 per cent CAGR through […]
Some 70 per cent of gamers surveyed in UK, France, Germany and Spain say they’re not interested in a video game streaming service according to a survey conducted by Ipsos MORI’s GameTrack survey, on behalf of GamesIndustry.biz. Just 15 per cent of the surveyed gamers (defined as anyone playing games via any device) are interested […]