The number of US consumers currently accessing the Internet through their TV sets is on the rise and will continue to grow dramatically in the year ahead, according to a national consumer study conducted by Frank N Magid Associates in late March of 2012. The research, conducted as part of the Magid Media Futures 2012 […]
Over a quarter of TVs shipped during Q1 2012 were equipped with Internet connectivity, according to data from NPD DisplaySearch. Approximately 27 per cent of TV sets shipped worldwide had internet connectivity, led by Japan, where 46 per cent of sets had networking capability, and Western Europe with 36 per cent. In a good example […]
A significant share of TV viewers are using PCs and mobile devices as second and third screens to access video content, according to the results of a cross-platform pilot test to be presented by Arbitron and the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) at the Advertising Research Foundation Audience Measurement 7.0 conference in New York. […]
German cable operators association ANGA says that cable remains dominant as the favoured TV delivery method. ANGA says more than 18 million German homes (42 per cent) still take a cable service despite the growing shift towards DTH supply and the availability of DSL connections. AMGA says that all German cable networks now offer digital […]
Global spend on entertainment and media services will reach $2.1 trillion by 2016, from $1.6 trillion in 2011 according to PwC. But the continuing change to digital over physical distribution will mean that growth will come at a slower pace than in previous years — and at a rate slower than that of overall GDP, […]
IPTV subscriptions worldwide will grow at 70 per cent from 2012 to 2017 with 100 per cent growth in the Asia-Pacific off a large base of 28.5 million subscribers, according to ABI Research. Global pay-TV subscribers will reach 853.5 million at the end of 2012, with 116 million IPTV subscribers Worldwide, cable operators are investing […]
comScore has released insights on the US tablet market from comScore TabLens, its forthcoming monthly syndicated service providing insights into tablet ownership and usage. The report found that tablets have quickly reached a critical mass in the US with 1 in every 4 smartphone owners using tablets during the three-month average period ending April 2012. […]
The growth in the tablet user base will cause the number of users of mobile adult video content on tablets to triple by 2015, a report from Juniper Research finds. This trend is repeated across all forms of mobile adult content on tablets with the number mobile adult subscribers and mobile adult videochat users also […]
Pay TV revenues in the US will peak in 2013, before gradually falling by $2.6 billion to reach $88.2 billion in 2017, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The report concludes that TV ARPU is being forced down as cable operators and telcos convert their subscribers to dual-play or triple-play bundles, though blended […]
Three in four Mobile Users (74 per cent) fully pay attention to mobile ads while surfing the web, according to a survey conducted by Prosper Mobile Insights. Further, the majority (59.5 per cent) of smartphone and tablet users say they regularly or occasionally pay full attention to ads they see while visiting social media sites […]