New research from analyst firm Parks Associates shows that 6 per cent of US broadband households are highly likely to subscribe to an online pay-TV service within the next 12 months, which would more than double the number subscribing today. “In 2017, 14 per cent of non-pay-TV households were
The top 10 television service providers in the US lost over 200,000 subscribers between them in the first quarter of 2018, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. Among the top 10 services there were 373,000 fewer satellite subscribers and 245,000 fewer cable television customers. Meanwhile online television services DirecTV NOW and Sling TV gained a total […]
Revenues from pay-TV in Spain increased by 14 per cent in 2017, according to Spain’s competition and markets watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). Pay-TV brought in €564 million with free-to air TV earning €560 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the latest data available on the […]
Following the recent announcement that Vodafone are in talks to buy large parts of European cable group Liberty Global, Gary Barton, Principal Analyst for Enterprise Services at GlobalData, a data and analytics company, has offered his thoughts on the significant market opportunities that this deal will open up for the telecoms provider: ‘‘The proposed deal […]
Netflix has revealed its 2018 recommendations for TVs that it says are faster and easier to use than ever. “From surveying our members, we know that people buying a smart TV care most about price, picture quality, screen size, and ease of use,” write Brady Gunderson, Director of Product Management at Netflix and
As TV Connect, the IP video distribution conference and expo, gets under way in London, OTT TV data-driven intelligence specialist Conviva and OTT multiscreen media analysis firm nScreenMedia have revealed the findings of a research study analysing billions of streaming sessions and hours around the globe. The report examines several notable viewing trends over a […]
Ofcom’s annual Home Broadband Performance report reveals the actual broadband speeds that UK residential consumers experienced in November 2017. This study uses a representative panel of over 4,000 volunteers across the UK who have connected monitoring units to their routers. Findings from the report include: Average broadband speeds have increased significantly. Average download speeds rose […]
Far from being seen as a replacement for pay-TV, both multichannel and non-multichannel TV households in Europe are adopting online SVoD services, primarily as supplemental video entertainment, according to findings from Kagan, the TMT research arm of S&P Global Market Intelligence. According to analyst Keith Nissen, while a number of cord cutters are adopting SVoD, […]
Research from consulting firm Parks Associates shows that 27 per cent of US pay-TV households agree that sports programming is the primary reason they subscribe to their pay-TV service, although OTT streaming options are having an impact. “While broadcast and pay-TV remain
DTT in Spain is increasingly losing audience numbers to pay-TV. In 2017, DTT had an average audience share of 77.1 per cent, down 2 per cent on one year earlier. Last month, its reach fell even more to 75.9 per cent. By contrast, pay-TV, with 6.6 million subscribers, had an average audience share of 22.3 […]