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FOX News Digital leads multi-platform views

FOX News Digital finished the month of February at number one, beating CNN.com (1.4 billion), in multi-platform views for the first time since August 2018 and securing 1.5 billion total views, a nine percent increase over February 2018, according to comScore. For the fifth consecutive month, FOX News Digital continued leading the multi-platform minute category […]

March 19, 2019

Asia Pacific OTT to generate $48bn by 2024

Asia Pacific OTT revenues will reach $48 billion (€42.2bn) in 2024; up from the $21 billion recorded in 2018. According to Digital TV Research, the total will increase by $5 billion in 2019 alone. China and Japan will account for 71 per cent of the region’s total revenues by 2024. China will command a 57 […]

March 18, 2019

Research: Netflix tops 11m Oz users

Nearly 14 million Australians now have access to some form of pay-TV/subscription TV, up 11.8 per cent on a year ago, according to analyst firm Roy Morgan Research, who suggest it is not just Netflix driving the increase, with large year-over-year increases for several SVoD services including Netflix, Stan, YouTube Premium and Amazon Prime Video. […]

March 18, 2019

Survey: UK viewers want more women’s sport on TV

Consumer insights consultancy Netfluential has published a survey that reveals UK TV viewers believe that BT is doing more to televise women’s sport than other media platforms including the BBC, Sky, ITV, Channel 4 and Facebook. Conducted in January 2019 among a nationally representative sample of 10,000 people, the findings showed that more than half […]

March 18, 2019

Report: Video growth driver for broadband

Video software solutions specialist Espial has released its vision paper, Digital Transformation, The New Imperatives for Operators, which reveals the real opportunities available for video operators that embrace a truly disruptive business model. Taking a page from companies such as

March 15, 2019

Survey: Most Brits watch just 12 channels

The average Briton now only watches 12 TV channels from the hundreds they sign up to – as the appetite for streamed, on-demand content is surging. Streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon are

March 14, 2019

UK report: ‘Tech giants increasingly dominant’

Tech giants have become increasingly dominant and UK government ministers must open the market up to increase consumer choice and give people greater control over their data, an independent review has concluded. Harvard Professor Jason Furman has warned that UK competition rules must be updated to be fit for the digital age. He cited the […]

March 14, 2019By Colin Mann

Study: Half of UK will watch final Game Of Thrones

A study by GlobalWebIndex has revealed that nearly half of UK consumers (48 per cent) intend to watch the final season of Game of Thrones, which begins next month. The majority of fans plan to watch at home (88 per cent), with just over a tenth of the show’s fans (12 per cent) prepared to […]

March 14, 2019By Nik Roseveare

European FTTH subs up 15.7%

The latest figures of the FTTH Market Panorama prepared by IDATE have been released, revealing forecasts for 2020 and 2025 for the first time. The number of fibre to the home (FTTH) and fibre to the building (FTTB) subscribers in Europe increased by 15.7 per cent in EU39 since September 2017 with more than 59.6 […]

March 14, 2019

Study: Build future proof fibre and get 5G “free”

The FTTH Council Europe has revealed the results of its study aimed at quantifying the potential cost savings, which could be made by building converged 5G-fibre networks. In other words, can some savings be made if an operator anticipates and builds a FTT-5G network while planning and rolling-out a FTTH network? “5G has become a […]

March 14, 2019