Nick Simon, GfK’s account director for Consumer Electronics, told delegates to the SES Ultra HD Conference in London, June 13th, that there was positive sales news in most countries in the current year following the FIFA World Cup. Flat panel TV sales were up, frequently in considerable numbers (such as Russia, where unit sales are […]
Connected TV inventory is growing like weeds. eMarketer expects that more than half of the US population (57.2 per cent) will watch connected TV in 2019, up from 51.7 per cent in 2017, and because the time they spend watching will increase too, the amount of connected TV inventory available to advertisers will proliferate. eMarketer […]
GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, released its Worldwide Media Forecast, This Year, Next Year, which predicts growth of the advertising industry across more than 60 territories through the end of 2019 and into 2020. Most notably, GroupM forecasts +3.4 per cent growth in 2019, or +4.6 per cent on an underlying basis (which excludes political […]
Rapid early momentum and enthusiasm for 5G has led Ericsson to forecast an extra 400 million enhanced mobile broadband subscriptions globally by the end of 2024. The June 2019 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report forecasts 1.9 billion 5G subscriptions – up from 1.5 billion forecasted in the November 2018 edition – an increase of […]
Just 20 per cent of EU households subscribe to broadband of at least 100 Mbps, compared to the EU’s goal of 50 per cent with ‘ultrafast’ by 2020. The figures are part of the latest Digital Economy and Society Index from the European Commission. The Commission said it shows it needs to take action to […]
Broadcasters and SVoD players are increasingly collaborating on co-commissions to create ambitious and exciting content for UK audiences, helping drive investment in UK TV drama production to record levels, according to new independent analysis commissioned from independent analyst Ben Keen by the Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA) – the industry body for multichannel broadcasters in the […]
The number of paid subscriptions on China’s online video platforms reached 347 million in 2018 as the market continued to expand rapidly, according to a report released at the Internet Film and Television Summit, part of the Shanghai International Film and TV Festival. Lu Di, director of the Center for Audio-visual Communication Research at Peking […]
In 2017, PwC released its Kids Digital Media Report, which estimated that the value of the global kids digital advertising market would hit $1.2 billon (€1bn) by 2021. Now yhey have released an updated report for 2019 which puts that figure much higher. Over 170,000 children go online for the first time every day, driving […]
Metova, a provider of mobile, connected car, connected home and IoT Solutions,has announced the results of their second annual survey revealing consumer trends and the sentiment of over 1000 consumers on IoT and connected home technologies. Notably, less than 25 per cent of people surveyed feel like they have a good understanding of what the […]
WorldDAB’s latest market report reveals that by the end of Q4 2018, over 75 million consumer and automotive DAB/DAB+ receivers had been sold in Europe and Asia Pacific – up from 65 million in Q4 2017. The report covers Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK. DAB is now firmly […]