Research released by TVB, the not-for-profit trade association of America’s commercial broadcast television industry, indicates that television continues to reach more consumers on average than any other major medium, across all major demographic groups. The report – The 2012 Media Comparisons Study – is the latest version of a biennial update to the proprietary report. […]
For many people around the world, the mobile phone will be the only means of accessing the Internet. According to Ericsson’s second Traffic and Market Report – On the Pulse of the Networked Society, 85 per cent of the world’s population will have Internet coverage via 3G by 2017 and there will be close to […]
Recent findings from analytics provider IHS suggest that riding a tidal wave of growth for subscription video on demand (SVoD) has enabled Netflix in 2011 to surge past Apple to become the largest US online movie service in revenue terms. The IHS Screen Digest Broadband Media Market Insight Report suggests that Netflix’s share of US […]
Research findings released by the Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (IPAF) – a broad membership of film and television organisations in Australia committed to educating people about the value of screen content – indicate that 10 per cent of Australians are giving up their TV and movie copyright infringements. Ten per cent of respondents indicated that […]
Research from IHS Screen Digest suggests that American viewing tastes are shifting away from discs and toward online video, with the information and analytics provider reporting that US households in 2011 decreased their spending on physical media purchases and rentals at a double-digit rate. Average spending on physical video media per US video household owning […]
A study from the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC), conducted by NDP Consulting, has revealed a direct and significant impact on jobs, productivity, and competitiveness in every state of the union. The report – IP Creates Jobs for America – measures IP-intensive companies by inputs such as research and development (R&D) […]
Based on extensive research conducted in two test markets (France and the UK), the research arm of consulting firm McKinsey has assessed the smart TV opportunity and determined how TV manufacturers, media/content providers, and telecoms operators should prepare for this new battleground. TV manufacturers regularly innovate with new features in an attempt to energize their […]
Independent online video technology company Tremor Video has unveiled research that indicates viewers are no longer confining content to specific devices in era of seamless connectivity, with tablet and Connected TV viewing on the rise. The study, conducted in partnership with research-based strategic consulting firm Frank N Magid Associates, suggests that viewers are moving seamlessly […]
Brazilian pay-TV continues to expand at a spectacular rate. April saw a net growth in subs of 284,000 taking the total to some 13.95 million subscribing homes. America Movil (Net/Embratel) is the market leader with 54.2 per cent for its MSO Net and DTH Claro TV operations, numbering 7.57 million subs. The April growth was […]
The annual Cisco VNI Forecast expects worldwide devices and connections to grow to almost 19 billion_ nearly doubling from 2011 to 2016. The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011-2016), the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyse Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide quantitatively projects the significant amount of IP traffic expected […]