Licence fees across Europe have never been better value. On average, the annual licence fee is €0.35 per day – far cheaper than most European pay-TV subscriptions. This is one of the key findings in the annual Licence Fee report produced by the EBU’s Media Intelligence Service. Research shows that, on average, the annual licence […]
The potential growth of Spain’s pay TV market will rocket in the next five years with a 47.2 per cent rise in the number of subscribers. A report from PwC forecasts that 900,000 Spanish homes will subscribe to pay TV by 2022 reaching a total of almost 8 million pay TV households (currently there are […]
The gap between teens watching TV on-demand and live has grown significantly, with research from marketing communications agency MediaCom showing pre-teens (aged 8-12) are driving the popularity of streaming services in the UK. Nearly half of all teens say they currently watch on-demand TV most often (46 per cent compared to 38 per cent last […]
TV rights for Europe’s big five football leagues are increasingly aligned with their domestic TV market size and fan base size – at least for the time being – according to a report from Ampere Analysis. The slight drop in the value of the English Premier League (EPL) and the rise of the value of […]
The provision of superfast broadband has increased by 25 per cent across OECD member states, according to the Teligen division of consultancy firm Strategy Analytics. Within a year, the number of providers offering the highest speed plans has increased from 49 in 24 countries to 62 in 28 countries. As superfast broadband becomes more prevalent, […]
The finale of BBC One’s Bodyguard was watched by an audience of 17.1 million people, 28-day 4-screen consolidated figures have revealed. This makes it the UK’s most watched episode of any drama series across all channels since current records began, in 2002. This is the largest audience recorded for a TV programme outside of sporting […]
A report from IHS Media & Technology says that some well-established cable channels are facing a “perfect storm” from the twin threats of cord-cutting and ever-rising sports rights costs. IHS says that case in point is sports giant ESPN, which has seen overall subscriber numbers crash from 99 million in September 2013 to 88 million […]
Pay-TV is significantly growing in Spain with over 6.7 million subscribers in the first quarter, up 10.4 per cent year-on-year (6.09 million last year), according to an update from regulator CNMC. In the first quarter, pay -TV grew by 6.1 per cent adding 137,000 subs and totalling €556.6 million revenues versus €427.5 million in the […]
There are now more than one billion fixed broadband subscribers worldwide, the Broadband Forum has revealed during Broadband World Forum 2018. The achievement – which has been confirmed by market analysis firm Point Topic – follows the release of Point Topic’s World Broadband Statistics Q2 2018 report which saw the number of fixed broadband subscribers […]
According to retail group John Lewis & Partners, 2018 marked the year that small TVs fell out of favour with UK consumer. Analysis of extensive internal data gives an insight into the products which fell out of favour, the trends that soared and the themes which dominated the year. According to the latest edition of […]