The move to active mobile video offerings will grow as entertainment bundling with mobile services becomes a must, according to the 2018 Economics of Mobile Programming Report by Kagan, the media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. North American and Asian markets lead the charge in a shift to active mobile video markets. In […]
Nearly 63 per cent of consumers want less interruption and a full experience, without paying more, according to the findings of global market survey, The Digital Future Report: Sports Streaming Edition, from business transformation specialist CSG. The survey, which polled more than 2,000 consumers between the ages of 18 and 64, evaluated when and how […]
A draft decision from the Dutch regulator, endorsed by the European Commission , identifies cable operator VodafoneZiggo and incumbent operator KPN as having collective significant market power (SMP) on the wholesale fixed broadband access market. The result of the market analysis is the imposition of third party wholesale access obligations to both networks. Says Matthias […]
Total TV production sector revenues in the UK hit a new high of £2.7 billion (€3bn) in 2017, a rise of nearly a third over the past decade, according to Pact’s annual census. The independent TV sector has shown steady growth at 1.9 per cent per year since 2012, equivalent to roughly £50 million per […]
An analysis of data from market research company IHS says that demand for large TV displays is “burgeoning” and annual shipments of 60” and larger displays will quadruple over the next 10 few years. Last year, says IHS the market shipped some 19 million 60”+ panels. By 2025 this is forecast to grow to 54 […]
The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has released a report which giving an overview of the composition of VoD catalogues in the EU. In total, 74 TVoD and SVoD catalogues are covered by the annual report, with a focus on pan-European and multi-country services for TVoD catalogues. Key findings […]
The global findings of the 2018 Pay-TV Innovation Forum, produced by content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA in partnership with international research and strategy consultancy MTM, highlight that 84 per cent of pay-TV executives expect competition for paid-for video services to increase dramatically over the next five years. The programme seeks to identify
Nigeria has become the largest pay-TV market in Africa in terms of subscribers and continues to have a strong growth potential, according to the latest country profile report from Kagan, S&P Global Market Intelligence. Julija Jurkevic, senior research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, says
In the first half of 2018, GfK recorded total sales of €45 billion for the global market for TVs). That is about one per cent more than in the same period last year, spurred by this year’s FIFA World Cup in Russia. Global sales of a total of 238 million devices are expected for 2018, […]
Telenor Norway has been named the world’s fastest mobile network, with consumers able to download with speeds of 72.05MBps. Research from testing agency Ookla found the top three operators for downloads were European. Telenor was followed by T-Mobile Netherlands, with speeds of 70.05MBps and Nova in Iceland, which hit an average of 67.83MBps. Ookla said […]