Overall spend on video entertainment in Canada remained flat in 2018 at CA$11.3 billion (€7.4bn). However, the Canadian consumer’s appetite for on-demand entertainment continues to grow, helping fuel a progressive landscape, this is according to the latest video insights market report from Futuresource Consulting. Despite a lack of Competition, SVoD is Dominating Home Video “SVoD […]
Content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA is once again teaming up with international research and strategy consultancy MTM to launch the 2019 Pay-TV Innovation Forum. The global research programme will explore the biggest challenges facing pay-TV service providers and content owners today, and how they can identify new opportunities to transform and future-proof […]
In anticipation of the scheduled Apple announcement, the Digital Media and Entertainment Team at research and knowledge-based consulting company Futuresource Consulting have shared their thoughts on what is expected to be new SVoD service launch. “It’s a move that has been anticipated here at Futuresource Consulting and across the industry for a number of years […]
The latest Which? broadband satisfaction survey reveals that customers with the UK’s largest providers are the most likely to be getting a bad deal. BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media supply almost nine in 10 broadband customers, yet year after year these are the providers that occupy the bottom of the consumer champion’s league table. […]
Driven by the influx of new services, faster in-home broadband speeds, and TV-connected device adoption, direct-to-consumer (DTC) channel adoption rates grew three-fold over the last three years to reach 15 per cent of US households, according to data, industry expertise, and prescriptive analytics specialist The NPD Group. In 2019, NPD expects growing consumer interest and […]
Two operators dominate Latin American pay-TV. América Móvil and DirecTV/Sky accounted for nearly half of the region’s pay-TV subscribers by end-2018, according to the findings of the Latin America Pay-TV Forecasts from Digital TV Research. “DirecTV/Sky had 21.43 million subscribers by end-2018 – or just under 30 per cent of the region’s total,” advised Simon […]
According to a recent report from Strategy Analytics, worldwide sales of smart TVs reached 157 million units in 2018, representing 67 per cent of all TVs sold during the year. The latest research found that more than one than one in five smart TVs sold today run on the Samsung developed Tizen platform while one […]
Digital piracy data analysis specialist MUSO has revealed that there were more than 189 billion visits to piracy sites throughout 2018. MUSO’s global piracy data platform tracks piracy in film, TV, music, publishing and software. Throughout 2018, TV was by far the most popular content for piracy, with almost half (49.38 per cent) of all […]
There has been some negative sentiment on the games industry recently, with stock prices of public games companies in question in both the US and China. While being contrarian to market sentiment is always risky, it’s also possible that folks might be taking a long-term solution to a short-term problem. Digi-Capital’s Games Report forecasts that […]
TV advertising revenue in the UK totalled £5.11 billion (€5.88bn) in 2018, matching the amount invested in 2017, according to full year figures provided to Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, by the UK commercial TV broadcasters. Amazon increases TV spend by 21 per cent Collectively, online businesses remain the biggest […]