Worldwide mobile advertising revenue is forecast to reach $11.4 billion in 2013, up from $9.6 billion in 2012, according to Gartner. Worldwide revenue will reach $24.5 billion in 2016 with mobile advertising revenue creating new opportunities for app developers, ad networks, mobile platform providers, specialty agencies and even communications service providers in certain regions. “The mobile […]
The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at Deloitte has revealed its predictions for the media sector in 2013. Jolyon Barker, global lead for Deloitte’s technology, media and telecommunications industry, comments: “Deloitte predicts that the television industry in 2013 will commence the roll-out the next generation of high definition TV, known as 4K, offering four […]
Oric, a UK site that directs users to legitimate online content, says its research comparing the number of TV series and movies on Netflix and Lovefilm reveals the Netflix has many more TV shows and series, while Lovefilm has a much better movie selection. It reveals that Netflix had 925 TV seasons compared with LoveFilm’s […]
A Virgin Media survey has revealed that 90 per cent of UK consumers won’t change mobile operators just for 4G, with most thinking the service is too expensive. The Internet service provider carried out a survey of 2,000 smartphone subscribers, 1,800 of which answered that they won’t be switching to a 4G mobile operator yet. […]
The number of FTTH lines in Spain has doubled year-on-year to 288,012, and now represents 2.5 per cent of all fixed bandwidth lines in the country, according to a report from Telefonica called “The Information Society in Spain 2012”. Households are increasingly embracing FTTH with a growth of 138.2 per cent in 2012 from 101,000 […]
comScore, a specialist in measuring the digital world, has released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 182 million US Internet users watched 38.7 billion online videos in December, while video ad views totaled 11.3 billion. Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing on YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property […]
According to forecasts from TDG, the number of US households that subscribe to traditional ‘cable-like’ pay-TV peaked in the last two years and is projected to decline from nearly 101 million in 2012 to less than 95 million in 2017. TDG believes that the number of pay-TV subscribers will undergo a noticeable decline in the […]
Figures published by the British Video Association show a massive rise of 49 per cent in viewers’ spend on digital video entertainment during 2012. With over 40 digital services available offering a range of options for consumers to download and stream video entertainment on connected devices, the digital market is now estimated by IHS Screen […]
America continues to favour cable or satellite TV, and research agency Nielsen says viewers are increasingly abandoning free-to-air (FTA) signals. FTA viewing is now only viewed by nine per cent of the population, down from 16 per cent in 2003. However this number is disputed by the influential National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) which states […]
BBC1 and Channel 5 were the only two of the five main UK TV channels to increase their share of the audience in 2012. The London Olympics, the Queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations and the Euro 2012 football tournament combined to boost BBC1’s all-day share of the audience from 20.7 per cent to 21.3 per cent, […]