According to Dataxis research, 314 million of TV households now receive TV signals via Free-to-Air satellite, which represents 18 per cent of the worldwide TV households. FTA satellite distribution is becoming more and more important and Dataxis forecasts that this ratio will reach 20 per cent in 2021. The penetration rate for FTA DTH varies […]
Akamai Technologies, the cloud delivery platform, has released its First Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation. “Increases in connection
The UK broadband market looked very different in terms of its technology base headline at the end of March 2017 than it did just three months earlier at the end of 2016. Having been dominated by DSL infrastructure, the country now has more subscribers to broadband services supplied over Docsis 3.0 cable modem and fibre-based […]
In advance of the UEFA Champions League final between Real Madrid and Juventus on June 3rd, KPMG has released the second edition of the Football Clubs’ Valuation: The European Elite 2017, a report providing an indication of the Enterprise Value (EV) of the 32 most prominent European football clubs. Andrea Sartori, KPMG’s Global Head of […]
Mobile Internet use will account for 26 per cent of global media consumption in 2019, up from 19 per cent in 2016, according to Zenith’s Media Consumption Forecasts. People around the world will spend an average of 122 minutes a day accessing the mobile Internet via browsers and apps, an amount that has grown from […]
Investment in digital infrastructure by the world’s largest international TV and broadband company is delivering transformative benefits to European consumers and businesses, according to economist firm Oxera Consulting. The company’s analysis of the economic impact of Liberty Global’s investment in broadband infrastructure between the start of 2013 and the end of the first quarter of […]
Martin Olson, an analyst with investment bank Piper Jaffray, has suggested that Wall Street is underestimating the success Netflix will have overseas, with predictions of international margin and penetration levels overly conservative, and that, by 2020, there is potential for market penetration higher than current estimates. In a note to clients,
Smartphones are now in 80 per cent of US homes – a six percentage point increase year-over-year (YOY) – and US consumers now own 27 million more smartphones than they did just last year, according to research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Furthermore, CTA’s research analysis shows 16 per cent of US households now […]
Ninety-two per cent of all adult viewing in the US is done on a TV screen, according the Nielsen. Its fourth-quarter Comparable Metrics Report says adults spent 509 billion minutes viewing on TVs in the quarter and another 63.6 billion viewing on TV-connected devices. Viewing on
Other than a few cinemas in India, and pockets of specialist 35mm projection, the world’s cinemas are now totally digital. A report from IHS Technology says that more than 155,000 screens around the world are now available to distributors. The shift to digital projection started in 2005 with the establishing of the Digital Cinema Initiatives […]