A survey of consumer behaviour has revealed five types of ‘Television Tribe’, each with very different patterns in the way they consume and pay for content. The study, Television Tribes, from content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA, in partnership with TV industry research firm Ampere Analysis, highlights the new reality of pay-TV consumer […]
Research from global content services provider TVT Media shows the UK is at the epicentre of the explosion in OTT and VoD services across the European Union and Turkey, as 82 of its 226 OTT platforms – double any other EU nation – are VoD services targeted outside the UK. The research, commissioned by TVT […]
The numbers of SVoD users in France has grown by 40 per cent in 2017 so far, mainly driven by Netflix, ahead of French counterparts Canalplay and SFR Play, and Amazon Prime Video which has newly launched in the country. Some 21 per cent of Internet users now subscribe to SVoD, up from 15 per […]
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the largest pay-TV providers in the US — representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost around 405,000 net video subscribers in Q3 2017, compared to a loss of 250,000 subscribers in Q3 2016. The top pay-TV providers account for 92.2 million subscribers — with the […]
Which? analysis suggests there can be big shortfalls in the average broadband speeds in some local authority areas when comparing estimates by providers against actual speeds reported using a speed checker. A review of data from Speedchecker found that people in some areas were experiencing much lower median speeds than providers said they supply. The […]
Dataxis research shows that some 40 worldwide pay-TV operators deployed Android STBs during the third quarter of 2017. Android is in general used by operators wishing to create more “OTT friendly” pay-TV offers as well as pure OTT services. However, Dataxis research shows that the actual number of subscribers with Android STBs remains limited. For […]
Survey data from Netflix reveals 67 per cent of people will risk embarrassment, awkwardness and spoilers to watch their favourite shows and movies in public. In a world with 2.4 billion smartphone users, mobile viewing is on the rise and ‘binge-free zones’ are a thing of the past. But as millions of people take full […]
Parks Associates’ holiday shopping research shows millennials will lead the smart home and CE (cosumer electrics) purchasing the holiday season, with 46 per cent reporting high intentions to buy at least one device and 36 per cent planning to give one as a gift. The IoT research firm, which surveyed US broadband households on their […]
The media industry in Europe is undergoing rapid transformation with increasing popularity of OTT video services that will see revenue double by 2021, according to Frost & Sullivan research. Increasingly ubiquitous connectivity, progressive consumers, and regulatory initiatives around a ‘Digital Single Market (DSM)’ have intensified the competition among several international companies, local start-ups, pay-TV operators […]
The UHD device market continues to excel with media streamers, set-top boxes, games consoles and UHD TVs all demonstrating significant growth, according to analyst firm Futuresource Consulting. The quantity of 4K content that is being created is also growing, but there is limited delivery of it to consumers, the company finds in its latest 4K […]