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Analyst: Sports packages drive subscription choice

Research from Ampere Analysis has identified a large and affluent group of sports fans who can, and do pay, a significant premium to watch their favourite teams and competitions. The sports package consumers have on their TV subscription has the potential to be either a deal maker or a deal breaker. In the UK, just […]

January 8, 2018

Africa to add 17.4m pay-TV subs

The number of pay-TV subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa will increase by 74 per cent between 2017 and 2023 to reach 40.89 million. However, the Sub-Saharan Africa Pay-TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research estimates that subscriber growth will outstrip revenue progress. Pay-TV revenues will climb by 41 per cent to $6.64 billion (€5.52bn) by 2023, […]

January 8, 2018

Record AR/VR investment in 2017

AR/VR investment records were broken last year as startups raised over $3 billion across 28 AR/VR categories (over $1.5 billion in Q4 2017). Perhaps the most surprising thing,

January 8, 2018

Boxsets boost for iPlayer

A Christmas treat of box-sets has helped BBC iPlayer achieve its best week on record. Viewers spent more time and streamed more programmes on BBC iPlayer than in any previous week. Christmas week (Monday December 25th to Sunday December 31st) was BBC iPlayer’s best-ever week, both for requests (69.2 million) and for weekly hours (25.6 […]

January 8, 2018

IHS Markit: AI, digital assistants set for surge

As they become more ubiquitous in homes and in various consumer electronics products, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital assistants are likely to be two of the major overarching themes at the CES 2018 consumer technology show in Las Vegas, according to

January 8, 2018

Fewer Americans rely on TV news

Americans are relying less on television for their news, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. Just 50 per cent of US adults now get news regularly from television, down from 57 per cent a year prior in early 2016. But that audience drain varies across the three television sectors: local, network and cable. […]

January 8, 2018

UK cinemas report record box office in 2017

Figures from data company comScore confirm that UK box office during the year totalled £1,277,878,351 an increase of 4.9 per cent on the same period in 2016. Like 2016, 2017 offered a broad range of titles to audiences. Four films passed the £40 million (€45.2m) milestone (with Paddington 2 expected to by the end of its theatrical […]

January 8, 2018

F1 2017: Strong TV and digital audience growth

The 2017 season saw Formula 1 register an increase in audience figures across both TV and digital platforms compared to the previous year, with F1 the fastest growing sport brand on social media platforms. The TV cumulative audience – i.e., the aggregate of the average audience of all the F1 programmes broadcast across the year […]

January 5, 2018By Colin Mann

Game of Thrones “most bingeable” show

Fantasy series Game of Thrones has been voted as the “most bingeable” TV boxset in a poll conducted by Samsung UK. Second was AMC’s Breaking Bad, about a cancer-stricken teacher becoming a drug baron. British period drama Downton Abbey ranked third. The poll of 2,000 adults also found 44 per cent now prefer to watch […]

January 5, 2018

China accelerates 5G; could strain operator resources

China is accelerating 5G development and hopes 5G will become an engine for the country’s new industrialisation and digital transformation, replicating its industrial policy that produced success in 4G, concludes Strategy Analytics in the report “China Government Sees 5G as an Engine of Industry Development, but Will Operators Have Enough Fuel?” The report also points […]

January 5, 2018