The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service recorded 242 million requests in July – up 38 per cent on the same time last year. Sport boosted live viewing and listening on BBC iPlayer thoughout July, with the proportion of live requests to TV and radio both up month-on-month to 15 per cent and 85 per cent respectively. […]
Focus on TV advertising has hit a three-year low as the gap between TV and digital narrowed to its closest point ever, according to a survey compiled by STRATA. Interest in digital advertising is closing in as several popular social media sites reached previously unseen levels of agency interest last quarter. TV advertising still remains […]
The number of pay satellite TV (DBS or DTH) homes will reach 251 million by 2018, up from 178 million at end-2012 and 103 million at end-2008, according to a new report from Digital TV Research covering 97 countries. From the 73 million pay satellite TV subscribers added between 2012 and 2018, India will provide […]
Hollywood studios are now in a position to go direct-to-consumer with Over-the-Top services according to research firm IHS Electronics & Media. Guy Bisson, Director of TV, also suggests that HBO is well placed to seed the UK market. According to Bisson, the Hollywood studios could dismantle the UK premium movie channel market by setting up […]
Most of Europe will still be getting its broadband over copper telephone lines by 2020, according to a report by Point Topic. Despite all the campaigning for fibre all the way to the home (FTTH), economics and technology will ensure that, for most people, the fibre will stop some way short of their doorstep. At […]
Worldwide fixed-line broadband subscriptions continue to grow at a healthy pace in 2013. According to ABI Research, fibre-optic broadband market share will reach 19 per cent by year-end 2013, from 16 per cent in 2012. “The number of broadband subscribers is growing on all DSL, cable, and fibre-optic
Although video consumption has never been stronger than today, global video market revenues slow down because of permanent decrease in physical video distribution revenues according to IDATE, while business models of traditional TV are subject to the pressure of OTT services. IDATE data reveals:
NBC Sports Group’s first weekend coverage of the Barclays Premier League debuted to record US audiences. The triple-header on NBC and NBC Sports Network (Stoke City v Liverpool, Aston Villa v Arsenal and Manchester United v Swansea) averaged a 0.5 rating. While still small compared to the audience share for US sports, it was still […]
According to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), Late Millennials living at home with their parents are, once they move out on their own, more likely to subscribe to an online pay-TV service like Netflix or Hulu Plus than a legacy pay-TV service such as cable or satellite. This data is drawn from TDG’s latest […]
Global Pay-TV STB shipments continue to grow, with demand expected to peak at 180 million units in 2016, according to research from Futuresource Consulting. “Despite the overall STB market topping out this year, this is entirely due to erosion of the free-to-air segment. We’re going to see the trinity of cable, pay satellite and IPTV […]