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 […]
In the wake of US DTH satellite pay-TV operators DirecTV and Dish reporting subscriber numbers for the second quarter of 2013, analysis from SNL Kagan unit Multimedia Research Group suggests that subscriber declines are not necessarily hurting set-top box suppliers. According to Michelle Abraham, Senior Research Analyst at SNL Kagan,
Amid a plunge in subscribers for cable, and now satellite providers, IPTV was the only segment of the U.S. pay-TV market to achieve growth in the second quarter, according to a new report from information and analytics provider IHS. The US IPTV providers – represented by AT&T Uverse, Verizon FiOS and others – boasted a […]
Newly-released streaming media and connected TV research from Parks Associates indicates that the number of US broadband households with a streaming video media device, such as a Roku or an Apple TV, has doubled since 2011, reaching 14 per cent in 2013. In the report – Connected TV: Trends and Innovation – the firm notes […]
US homes that tune into family network programming or subscribe to premium movie channels are 20 per cent more likely than other network viewers to have their TV connected to the internet. According to the new Connected Home Consumer Index Report from NPD Connected Intelligence, family network viewers are 22 per cent more likely to […]
Internet media platform blinkx has unveiled the results of its first Nation of Sharers study – looking at the evolution of search behaviour. The Nation of Sharers study has found that 40 per cent of people aged 18-34 prefer to use their social networks over search engines when looking for content online – this means twitter over […]
Based on forecasts for 97 countries, on-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programs (and excluding revenues from other sources such as sports and adult and also excluding SVOD packages and online TV & video (OTT)) will reach $6.0 billion in 2018, up by 44 per cent from $4.2 billion in 2012. On-demand TV generated […]
The connected TV market is rapidly evolving in the Middle East and Africa with increasing sales of connected device fuelling demand for OTT, cloud and multi-screen services. Informa Telecoms & Media says 6.5 million tablets were sold across the Middle East and Africa in 2012, with this figure forecast to increase almost fivefold to 32.1 […]
The number of households subscribing to a pay television service in Central America will reach 4.4 million by 2018, new research carried out by Dataxis predicts. A region historically associated with low pay-TV penetration rates, Central America is starting to catch up with more developed Latin American multichannel markets. In only four years between 2008 […]