Pay-TV subscription, billing and customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Paywizard is teaming up with TV audience analytics expert Genius Digital to provide operators with a holistic view of their subscribers that the pair say will boost customer engagement. The new strategic partnership combines Genius Digital’s ability to access vast usage data and provide actionable insights […]
The ability to reach out and interact with virtual environments is something unique to the virtual reality (VR) medium. It creates a sense of ‘being there’, particularly in opportunities such as emergent gameplay. Imperative to a more immersive
Eurodata TV Worldwide has revealed results of its first four-screen aggregated measurement initiative to show the divergent viewing patterns in France and the Netherlands. In France, last December, one in five watched TV online, while in the Netherlands, the figure was one in two. For content, fiction drama was strong in France while entertainment won […]
Australians’ love affair with TV continues, streaming an unprecedented 1.2 billion minutes of catch-up and live streaming TV in the past month, according to the latest OzTAM VPM 28 Day Rolling Report. In addition, 5.14 million Australians – the highest-ever number – are streaming Free Video on Demand (FVoD) content, eclipsing 3.53 million for Subscription […]
For the first time, pay-TV in Spain has surpassed the 6 million subscribers mark, according to the latest report from Spain’s competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). In the third quarter of 2016, pay-TV reached 6,006,326 subs, up almost 600,000 more than the previous quarter with 5,430,887. IPTV claimed the most, with […]
The number of pay-TV subscribers in Portugal reached 3.67 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2016, representing a growth of 145,000 (+4.1 per cent) on the previous year. According to data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom), the penetration rate for the service stood at 90 per cent (+3.6 per cent). Contributing […]
Providing the avenue by which users can ‘escape’ reality, virtual reality (VR) provides the means to complete tasks, gain new experiences and preview new environments otherwise unachievable due to cost, safety, or physical capability in real life. But what of the overall style of the headset which allows users to achieve this escapism? A study […]
The rise in popularity of online streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime has driven the average age of those watching the BBC is over 60. A report by the BBC Trust found the corporation’s mainstream services struggle to appeal to younger viewers. It showed that the average age of BBC1 viewers is 61 […]
TV Everywhere (TVE) – effectively the ability for pay-TV customers to also watch traditional TV offers (DTH, cable, IPTV, terrestrial) on other screens such as PC, smartphones and tablets – has become available to
Numerous reports have been written on the national trend of “cord cutting” in the US, or homes eliminating their cable or satellite service and accessing their television content over the Internet and from antennae. For the second year in a row, 82 per cent of North American rural video consumers surveyed are still subscribing to […]