Bringing an end to a full year of declines, global flat-panel television shipments rose slightly in the first quarter, paving the way for marginal growth in 2013, according to the “Monthly Worldwide FPD TV Shipment Data Report” from the IHS TV Systems Intelligence Service at information and analytics provider IHS. Global shipments of flat-panel televisions […]
Viacom has unveiled the results of “When Networks Network: TV Gets Social,” its multi-country study investigating the relationship between TV and social media usage. The findings uncovered three key types of motivations leading fans to engage in TV-related social media activities: Functional, Communal and Playful. The multi-country study involved social media diaries in the US, […]
Independent research has shown Al Jazeera Arabic is firmly the most watched pan-Arab news channel. According to audience data produced for Q1 2013 by Ipsos and Sigma, the channel exceeds the combined total viewership of all other pan-Arab channels. Al Jazeera’s daily viewership across the MENA region was 34 per cent higher than all the […]
Despite a huge desire to receive content and services through television, Smart TVs trail laptops, desktops and set-top boxes when it comes to consumers deciding how to connect to the internet through their sets, new research from YouGov shows. Results from the latest Connected TV Tracker show that half (50 per cent) of consumers like […]
The content delivery network (CDN) service provider market was valued at nearly $3.6 billion in 2012. The global market for content delivery network hardware is expected to reach nearly $6.9 billion in 2017 after increasing at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.9 per cent, according to BCC Research. The US segment is […]
Providing superfast broadband services to the whole of the European Union could be much less expensive than previously estimated. This is the key conclusion of a new report from broadband specialists Point Topic. Earlier estimates suggested the cost could be as high as €270 billion. Point Topic puts the figure at about €80 billion, with […]
YahLive, the HD television satellite platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, SES, the DTH global satellite broadcast operator, and ChannelSculptor, a Dubai-based TV content and broadcast consultancy, have revealed that whilst MENA may be ahead of Europe in terms of HDTV demand as measured by high HDTV screen sales, increased channel […]
Leichtman Research Group found that the seventeen largest cable and telephone providers in the US — representing about 93 per cent of the market — acquired 1.1 million net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in the first quarter of 2013. These top broadband providers now account for over 82.4 million subscribers — with top cable companies […]
Some 60.7 per cent of Taiwanese homes are viewing cable TV, which translates into 4.97 million subscribers, says the country’s National Communications Commission. Taiwan has 5 major MSOs and 27 independent cable operators. The five MSOs look after a combined market share of 72.8 per cent of homes. China Network Systems is the largest player […]
Following the news that Facebook will launch video ads into people’s news feeds in July, visual classification company WeSEE conducted a poll to see what users thought of these plans. Findings include: – 68 per cent of people say that receiving irrelevant video ads on Facebook would make them inclined to use Facebook less. – […]