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VoD services take root in France

Almost 2 out of 5 French Internet user have already used VoD or SVoD services, a steady increase according to Médiamétrie’s VoD360 study. Over the last 12 months, 13 per cent of the population indicated they had rented at least one video, and 20 per cent have used a SVoD service. SVoD’s primary strength lies […]

March 19, 2018

Snapchat ad revenue to pass £100m this year

In its first-ever ad revenue forecast for Snapchat, eMarketer expects the mobile social network to generate almost £105 million (€110m) in UK revenues this year—almost double the amount from the prior year. In 2015, Snapchat derived 95.9 per cent of its global ad revenues from the US. This year, that proportion will fall to 75.8 […]

March 19, 2018

Analyst: E Europe to add 17m digital pay-TV subs

The number of digital pay-TV subscribers in Eastern Europe will increase from 25.49 million in 2010 to 61.57 million in 2017 and onto 78.08 million by 2023. The Eastern Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research states that digital pay-TV subs will climb by 27 per cent between 2017 and 2023. “Eastern Europe […]

March 19, 2018

26% of US adults are “almost constantly” online

As smartphones and other connecteddevices have become more widespread, 26 per cent of American adults now report that they go online “almost constantly,” up from 21 per cent in 2015, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January 2018. Overall, 77 per cent of Americans go online on a daily basis. That figure […]

March 16, 2018

20% US broadband homes use digital antenna for live TV

Consumer research from Parks Associates shows the percentage of US broadband households that use digital antennas in their home has steadily increased to reach 20 per cent near the end of 2017, up from 16 per cent in early 2015. The resarch reveals this increase coincides with a steady decline in pay-TV subscriptions and an increase […]

March 16, 2018

Report predicts direct-to-consumer future

The unbundling of cable TV packages will accelerate over the next five years, with all major TV networks launching standalone direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming services by 2022, according to a new report from The Diffusion Group, The Future of Direct-to-Consumer Video Services – Analysis & Forecasts, 2018-2028. “Big media

March 15, 2018

Kagan: US pay-TV subs record annual loss

Subscription losses slowed for traditional multichannel video providers in Q4 2017 (quarter ended December 31st, 2017), but the sector still tumbled for the full year, according to data compiled by Kagan, a group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Combined cable, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and telecommunication (telco) multichannel subscriptions fell to 94 million, including 91.1 […]

March 15, 2018

Over 70% of TV viewing by young not TV or live-streaming

TV-viewing research from Parks Associates finds that live TV viewing among all video consumption has continued to decline overall among US broadband households – nearly 60 per cent of video viewed on the TV is on-demand, non-linear content. The research shows that the trend is particularly pronounced among young consumers. Just over one-quarter of TV […]

March 15, 2018

Study: Digital subscriptions boost Gen Z student productivity

According to findings from UK student accommodation search engine Mystudenthalls.com, Generation Z – the first generation of students that has never known a world without the Internet – rely on Netflix and Spotify and no longer need a library to be at their most productive. The survey of over 2,000 UK students by the student […]

March 15, 2018

Satellite operators facing “industry oversupply”

The world’s major satellite operators are facing continuing revenue problems because of an oversupply of orbital capacity, says a report from Northern Sky Research (NSR). The researchers add that the decline is far from over and could extend into 2019. NSR says that capacity leasing prices have fallen, on average, for the third year in […]

March 15, 2018By Chris Forrester