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Study: Mobile access key driver for OTT in Asia

Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has revealed findings from its market study, Asia OTT Television Research Report 2018, in partnership with YouGov, an international data and analytics group, and conducted a study that polled 5,000 participants across Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. The purpose of study was to discover how […]

June 27, 2018

Study: US smartphone ownership nearing TV

Smartphones continue their meteoric popularity and are now owned in 87 per cent of US homes, second only to televisions at 96 per cent ownership, according to Consumer Technology Association (CTA) research. CTA’s 20th Consumer Technology Ownership and Market Potential Study also shows that for the first time, the top three most-frequently owned tech products […]

June 27, 2018

World Cup drives 77% increase in US TV app installs

Mobile apps that offer streaming alternatives to cable television are having a moment thanks to the 2018 World Cup. Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data reveals that first-time downloads of the five leading live TV apps in the US grew by 77 per cent during the first week of World Cup coverage, compared to preceding weeks […]

June 27, 2018

DPP predicts key consumer tech trends for CES 2019

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP), the media industry’s international business network, has revealed the key trends it predicts we’ll see at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2019. The predictions were made by DPP Managing Director Mark Harrison at the HPA Creative Tech event in London. The DPP’s CES work is enabled […]

June 27, 2018

Research: 48% could not go a day without smartphone

Consumers worldwide increasingly depend on connected devices, with 80 per cent reporting digital technology has made a positive impact on their lives. According to the latest State of Digital Lifestyles report from Limelight Networks, a global player in digital content delivery, mobile phones have become such an integral part of daily life that nearly half […]

June 27, 2018

European pay-TV market reached 185m subs in Q1

Dataxis research shows that the European pay-TV market reached 185 million subscribers during the first quarter of 2018 and grew only by 0.3 per cent compared to Q4 2017. This is the lowest net add ever observed by Dataxis. Some 35 per cent of the pay-TV subscribers receive direct cable, 31 per cent satellite and […]

June 26, 2018

Analyst: Africa to reach 10m SVoD subs

Digital TV Research forecasts 9.99 million SVoD subscribers across 35 Sub-Saharan Africa countries by 2023, up from 1.56 million at end-2017. Although massive growth will take place, the Sub-Saharan Africa OTT TV & Video Forecasts report estimates that SVoD revenues will only be $775 million (€663m) by 2023 as some platforms are very cheap. South […]

June 26, 2018

Study: High-speed broadband in 75% European homes

At the end of June 2017, more than three quarters of homes in the 28 countries in the European Union (EU28) had access to high-speed broadband services. For the first time, 4G LTE availability matched 3G HSPA networks, in terms of the number of households covered. Published by the European Commission, the Broadband Coverage in […]

June 26, 2018

Spain: Pay-TV ad revenues to increase 6.2%

Pay-TV is gaining momentum in Spain both in terms of subscribers and of advertising revenues. Research from Zenith forecasts a 6.2 per cent growth in pay-TV ad revenues this year versus 3.4 per cent in FTA TV. The total TV ad revenue in the country is likely to reach €12.54 billion, up 2.1 per cent […]

June 25, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

Voice assistant use in smart homes to grow 1,000%

A study from Juniper Research has found that the adoption of voice assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant will be a key factor behind smart home growth, with 275 million voice assistant devices used to control smart homes by 2023. This is up from an estimated 25 million in 2018, a growth of 1,000 […]

June 25, 2018