Keith Kupferschmid, CEO of pro-copyright lobbying body Copyright Alliance, has called on the US Congress to lead the way on tackling commercial streaming piracy. Writing an Opinion piece in political website The Hill, Kupferschmid notes that nowadays, three-quarters of American households subscribe to one of the major video streaming services, but when technologies grow this […]
The global population of TV and video streaming devices has now exceeded 1.1 billion, according to the latest analysis from Strategy Analytics’ TV Streaming Platforms service. The research, which tracks quarterly deployments of TV and video streaming devices across 27 major countries, finds that Samsung is the leading brand, with 14 per cent of devices […]
The era of the broadband and TV bundle is nearing an end according to research from Zen Internet, with millions of households no longer seeing its value. Its findings suggest that two million of the
An extra 20 live Premier League matches will be shown live on TV during the 2020/21 season. However, there will be no more free-to-air matches available to fans, despite fixtures remaining behind closed doors – at least for the first part of the start of the season. Individual Premier League clubs tried to obtain permission […]
South Africa’s MultiChoice is to offer subscribers an upgraded version of its Explora decoder and video recorder that can handle Ultra HD programming. The pay-TV broadcaster is also offering a separate set-top box, DStv Streama, that is good for web-streaming. The Explora Ultra box can handle third-party 4K material from the likes of Netflix and […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has boosted home entertainment subscription services in Australia according to research from emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte. Australians added 5.6 million new subscriptions to the end of June 2020, an increase of 18 per cent from a year ago. This growth was across streaming video on demand (SVoD), streaming music and games-related […]
Findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s Predicting the Post-Pandemic study suggest that although pandemic-related increases in streaming, broadcast network, and YouTube viewing in the US are likely to persist after the crisis eases, one behaviour that has increased during the pandemic—video chats with friends and family—is at the top of the list of behaviours consumers will […]
A surge in screen time during lockdown saw UK adults spend 40 per cent of their waking day watching TV and online video services, broadcast regulator Ofcom has found in its annual study of the nation’s media habits. People spend
As the second half of 2020 gets underway, Mexico’s video entertainment market is expected to recover from the impact of Covid-19, with digital video leading the charge and showing strong prospects for growth in 2021. That’s according to a report from Futuresource Consulting, which points to 17 per cent growth next year, propelling overall video […]
Findings from data, insights and consulting company Kantar’s Q2 2020 Entertainment On Demand service suggest that after a surge of 6 million SVoD sign-ups during the three months to April, which covered the early Covid-19 lockdown period and launch of Disney+, new subscriptions have fallen back to a more normal level, hitting 826K in Q2 […]