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TV 94% of UK video advertising

Fresh analysis by Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – of 2016 video consumption in the UK shows how total video viewing – and viewing of video advertising – breaks down. The video analysis combined 2016 data from The Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB), comScore, the IPA’s Touchpoints 2016 study, […]

March 9, 2017

Nordics leads European SVoD market

The Nordic region comprising Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden leads the SVoD market in Europe. According to Dataxis research, the Nordic region represents almost 20 per cent of all SVoD subscriptions in Europe at Q4 2016. In the same quarter, the number of SVoD subscriptions in Nordic region is approximately equivalent to the number of […]

March 9, 2017

Akamai: Global connection speed up 26% YoY

Akamai Technologies, a global player in content delivery network (CDN) services, has released its Fourth Quarter, 2016 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. “Internet […]

March 9, 2017

TiVo: US consumers push back on pay-TV prices

TiVo has released the 16th edition of its quarterly Video Trends Report, covering key topics across pay-TV, VoD, PPV, OTT, TV Everywhere, streaming devices and content discovery. Based on a survey of over 3,100 consumers,

March 8, 2017

Huge investments accelerating VR growth

The rapid growth of the virtual reality (VR) market is attracting substantial private and federal investments to innovative start-ups, mostly in the areas of video, services and solutions, games and apps reports Frost & Sullivan. With technological advances and improvements in user experience, VR will become more ubiquitous in industries such as healthcare, automotive, education, […]

March 8, 2017

Digital transition drives Euro cable growth

The cable industry is growing, with total revenues up 4.6 per cent year on year based on IHS statistics released by the industry’s trade association, Cable Europe, at Cable Congress in Brussels. Revenue growth remains solid across all cable services: broadband internet (7.5 per cent), TV (3.7 per cent) and telephony (2.1 per cent). Broadband […]

March 8, 2017From Nick Snow @ Cable Congress

Half of consumers willing to reduce content piracy

The largest global consumer piracy online survey ever conducted has found that consumer education could reduce the number of individuals who watch pirated video content. The Irdeto Global Consumer Piracy Survey of more than 25,000 adults across 30 countries found that despite the high number of consumers around the globe watching pirated video content (52 […]

March 8, 2017By Colin Mann

SSPI’s “Rising Five” new space companies named

The Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) named its annual Rising Five, the five New Space Companies in the satellite industry that have made the most substantial progress over the past year. Decided by an international editorial advisory board, the 2017 Rising Five are the Kymeta Corporation, OneWeb, Planet, Spire Global and Virgin Galactic. “The […]

March 8, 2017By Chris Forrester

ADL: Media will see rush of consolidation M&A

According to consultancy firm Arthur D. Little (ADL), markets will continue to see a rush of consolidation and vertical integration among traditional media companies as offline advertising revenues and consumer spending stagnate while online advertising and consumer spend rises. The findings of its five-year forecast of the financial flows within the global media marketplace also […]

March 8, 2017

IBM: 3 stats that prove enterprise video on the rise

The landscape of video content is changing, and not just at home reports IBM. New viewing patterns have created a dramatic shift in the media world as consumers move to cloud-based streaming video to watch their favourite shows on laptops, tablets and mobile phones. Companies have taken note and are ramping up their use of […]

March 8, 2017