Netflix has been hit with criticism by an anti-smoking organisation, which has released research claiming its original programmes have more than twice as many scenes featuring smoking characters as its rivals. Truth Initiative, a US public health organisation, identified the 14 most popular shows with viewers aged 15-24 across broadcast and cable providers. It found […]
Digital pay-TV subscriptions around the world, including cable, satellite and IPTV, exceeded one billion for the first time in 2017. This global growth comes despite the continued uptake of OTT subscription video services, like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, which added more than three times the number of subscriptions than pay-TV last year, according […]
Spain’s TV ad revenues grew by just 1 per cent in 2017 to €2.14 billion versus €2.12 billion the previous year, according to Infoadex. Nationwide TV channels took €1.93 billion whereas Regional TV stations managed €114.2 million, down 10 per cent. The duopoly Mediaset-Atresmedia controlled the market with an 84.7 per cent share, with Mediaset […]
At the 2018 Connected TV World Summit, RDK Management provided its annual update about the adoption of the RDK (Reference Design Kit) software used to power customer-premises equipment (CPE) from video and broadband services providers worldwide. “With more than 40 million
According to analysis by Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, the Nordic market for SVoD video services has grown considerably over the last few years in both subscriptions and revenues, increasing its share of total consumer spend for subscription-based video entertainment from 18 per cent in 2016 to 22 per cent […]
Just three months after FM was switched off in Norway, a listener survey shows the new digital stations have up to one third of all radio listening. Most radio listeners still tune in to radio, and the new digital stations have shown strong growth. These are some of the findings presented by a group of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]