New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 86 per cent of US households subscribe to some form of multi-channel video service. While major multi-channel video providers reported a cumulative increase of less than 1 per cent of subscribers over the past three years, penetration has slightly declined over that time as a […]
Global pay-TV is expected to grow consistently over the next five years, with Latin America’s growth rates set to rise above the global average in the period to 9-10 per cent CAGR, says Marcel Fenez, global leader of PwC Entertainment & Media and chairman of Asian pay-TV organization CASBAA. He told the Brazilian pay-TV association […]
Viewers with access to online video sources on their TV are more likely than their counterparts to be reconsidering the value proposition of incumbent pay-TV services, suggests a new report from The Diffusion Group (TDG). The report – Net-Connected TV User Dimensions – finds that adult broadband users with an Internet-connected TV are twice as […]
A growing market and ecosystem is forecast for Ultra HD technology by the US’s Consumer Electronics Association. The analysis, contained in a new report – Ultra High-Definition: State of the Industry – provides a snapshot of the emerging Ultra HD market, with overviews of key industry segments including content development, production, and delivery, as well […]
According to research from the Computer & Communications Industry Association, recent claims by the recording industry that search engines are a major driver of traffic to copyright-infringing websites are exaggerated. The research paper – The Search Fixation: Infringement, Search Results and Online Content – the first of a series of research pieces to better inform […]
Brazil’s pay-TV growth over the past few years has been extraordinary, and despite a slowdown this current year, to a miserable 12 per cent, the typical annual growth rate has been nearer 30 per cent annually. Today’s pay-TV sub numbers about 17 million households, but according to Brazil’s communications minister Paulo Bernardo, his department sees […]
The average residential UK broadband speed reached 14.7Mbit/s in May 2013, Ofcom research reveals. The report into fixed-line residential broadband speeds shows that the average actual UK speed has risen by 22 per cent (2.7Mbit/s) in the six months to May 2013, and 64 per cent (5.7Mbit/s) in the year since May 2012. The report […]
Subscription television advertising revenues in Australia increased by 12.5 per cent in the six months to June 30th 2013, according to new data audited by Ernst & Young. A record $237,648,703 was spent advertising goods and services to subscription television audience during the six month period, up by $26 million on the same time last […]
By 2017, tablets will be owned by over one in eight people on Earth, and will be a “mainstay” device among consumers and businesses in developed nations according to research from Forrester. Tablet PCs are already popular mass-market devices, but by 2017 there will be 905 million users worldwide, up from just 15 million users […]
Information and measurement company Nielsen has released findings, which, for the first time, provide statistical evidence of a two-way causal influence between broadcast TV tune-in for a programme and the Twitter conversation around that programme. Nielsen’s Twitter Causation Study included time series analysis to determine if Twitter activity drives increased tune-in rates for broadcast TV […]