The Spanish pay TV market continues to be in free fall with a loss of over 100,000 subscribers, according to the latest report by the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT). Prisa TV, owner of digital DTH platform Canal Plus, is the market leader with 1,731,140 subscribers (down 2.1 per cent) followed by cable company ONO, with 906,475 (down […]
The global pay-TV market continues to grow despite a decline in the US pay-TV market in 2012. ABI Research forecasts that global pay TV subscribers will reach 858.1 million at the end of 2012, a 5 per cent year-on-year increment from 2011. The key growth will be driven by the Asian-Pacific market which is expected […]
Proponents of over-the-top (OTT) video delivery view streaming Internet providers such as Netflix as the future of television, offering entertainment at a fraction of the cost of traditional pay-TV operators while also providing the potential for superior breadth in programming, ubiquity in platforms and technological advancement. However, a detailed analysis from IHS Screen Digest reveals […]
Three quarters of people are picking online content via word of mouth or suggestions from Twitter and Facebook, according to a report by video search specialists blinkx. The company’s Matt Scheybeler said: ‘We use search as a starting point less often and instead we’ve become comfortable scanning and processing long streams of information – Facebook […]
Service delivery platforms (SDPs) are evolving to provide network operators with a strong foundation for building successful digital services ecosystems that include participation of a wide range of third-party partners, but new technology competitors pose serious challenges to SDP vendors, according to the latest report from Heavy Reading Service Provider IT Insider, a paid research […]
According to market research company The NPD Group, on the anniversary of the failed introduction of Qwikster, Netflix has garnered more US subscribers than ever. One in four US households now subscribe to Netflix, based on data from NPD’s Subscription VOD report. “Today marks the first anniversary of Netflix introducing Qwikster, its by-mail DVD and […]
In the next five years, electronics retailer Flanco predicts that smart TVs will be the main type of TVs purchased by Romanians. Romanians spend on average over four hours a day watching TV, but at the same time, they are social networks enthusiasts, averaging over four hours surfing the Internet, according to the company. One […]
Research by MediaMind, an independent provider of integrated digital advertising solutions, has revealed that the click-through rate (CTR) for online video is 27.4 times that of standard banners and almost 12 times that of rich media ads. In an analysis of over 3 billion ad impressions globally over the first six months of 2012, the […]
Manchester has been named the piracy capital of the UK according to a study from monitoring service Musicmetric. The research said there were more illegal downloads per person in the city than any other in the country, followed by Nottingham and Southampton. The statistics conclude that in the first half of 2012, UK users illegally […]
A study conducted by the SuperMoney Observatory, which compares pay-TV offers on the Italian market, has shown that the demand for pay-TV services has grown by 80 per cent in the past six months. As usual, the peak was reached in August (93.4 per cent), due to the imminent start of the Italian football season. […]