The number of older viewers in the US watching TV shows and movies weekly on tablets has skyrocketed in the last year while usage among tablet owners under 45 has plateaued, according to an annual survey of consumer video viewing habits conducted by Altman Vilandrie & Company and Research Now. The survey showed tablet owners […]
While many TV forecast that spending more time watching programmes on non-TV platforms such as iPads means spending less time watching “regular” television, just the opposite is the case. According to research from TDG, 88 per cent of adult tablet owners use the device to watch video, with television programmes ranking high on their content […]
NSR’s Global Direct-to-Home (DTH) Markets, 5th Edition finds the global DTH industry is still living in a standard definition world. With two SD channels entering the market for every HD channel, as well as SD subscribers outnumbering HD and DVR subscribers combined, the market remains dominated by the legacy resolutions; except for the measure that […]
A report from GfK shows that the average Netflix user (ages 13 to 54) watches 5.1 TV shows and 3.4 movies per week via the service. Using conservative length estimates for TV shows and movies, (30 minutes and 1.5 hours, respectively), this means that an average Netflix subscriber spends about 8 hours a week watching […]
Multimedia Research Group (MRG) has released its latest forecast on the worldwide set-top box market, revealing that 2012 will see a record high for global STB shipments. Demand for digital STB products is rising, particularly in Asia, Latin America, and a number of countries in Europe. Mike Paxton, Senior Analyst at MRG explains “The expansion […]
Against the trend of US cable pay TV providers Verizon’s director of consumer video services Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, who is responsible for the company’s FIOS TV service, told The Tampa Tribune “[the cord cutting trend] is not stopping. It’s growing. The question is: Is it growing enough for us?” Most traditional TV services vendors would rather […]
The growing impact of social media on viewership and loyalty to the television platform is a core focus of Horowitz Associates’ latest consumer survey, Multiplatform Content and Services 2012 edition. Social media disproportionately impacts the viewing behaviours of younger consumers: One-quarter (24 per cent) of 18-34 year old adults and 30 per cent of 15-17 […]
Global Internet Geography research reveal that international Internet capacity growth fell to the lowest pace in five years, decreasing from 68 per cent in 2008 to 40 per cent in 2012. While the pace of growth is slowing, international Internet bandwidth continues to grow rapidly, more than doubling between 2010 and 2012, to 77 Tbps. […]
Farncombe, a provider of Digital TV technology consultancy, has released early results of its Security and Piracy Survey conducted in August 2012. Among a wealth of industry input, the survey found that the pay-TV industry’s main piracy concern over the next five years is shifting from control word sharing, which is viewed as the largest […]
Canada’s pay-TV market is expected to reach the saturation point this year, compelling the country’s cable, satellite and IPTV operators to seek new growth opportunities, according to IHS Screen Digest. After years of steady expansion, penetration of pay-TV subscriptions among Canadian television households is set to reach an all-time high of 92 per cent in […]