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Report: US streamers spending big on sports

The involvement of tech giants in the sports broadcasting market has never been this much a reality, reports Dataxis. Until now, only Amazon had been investing in premium sports properties, be it in the US or in Western European markets, while YouTube has rather turned to be a flexible and complementary offer to traditional broadcasters’ […]

March 23, 2022

Report: Spotify paving way to profitable podcast ads

In February 2021, Spotify announced two more acquisitions in the podcasting business: Podsights, an advertising measurement tool, and Chartable, an analytics platform for podcast publishers. The streaming giant clearly stays on target by adding these podcast technology companies to the long list of its latest investments in podcasting, notes a report from Dataxis. In fact, […]

March 7, 2022

Analyst: Are the console wars over?

All eyes were on Sony and Microsoft who released their 9th generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, in autumn 2020. A year and a half later, Dataxis has offered its assessment. The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns was an incredibly successful period for video game console manufacturers: sales of hardware and software (Animal […]

February 23, 2022

Forecast: Netflix to remain SVoD leader in LatAm

In 2021, the dynamics of the SVoD OTT market in Latin America were altered by the entrance of some of the world’s largest content producers, namely Disney (with Disney+) and Warner Media (with HBO Max), notes Dataxis. As a result of this increased competition, the subscription growth reached an all-time record, with a 47.2 per […]

February 16, 2022

Report: Wholesale model reshaping fibre rollout in W. Europe?

The expansion of fibre networks is progressing fast in Western Europe, where an average of 7 million premises were connected each quarter over the last year, reports Dataxis. When considering the five biggest consumer markets in the region, it is clear that the deployment of fibre infrastructures widely varies in each country. The market is […]

January 27, 2022

Report: 2022 decisive for Smart TV OS market

At the end of last year, Samsung announced it would open its own operating system to other TV manufacturers. This decision came only a few months after LG started to license its webOS TV platform to third-party TV makers, that would consequently be allowed to integrate LG’s operating system into their TV sets. LG already […]

January 13, 2022

Report: Decline in turnover of FSS operators

Dataxis has published its latest report on the Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) civil communications market. After years of significant growth, the decline in traditional video activity in the most developed countries is being sustained, resulting in a limited but steady decline in the turnover of FSS operators. The outlook for the future is equally becoming […]

December 15, 2021

Report: European AVoD market still fledging

Over the last three years, the number of AVoD users has significantly increased in Europe. If the lockdown context between Q1 2020 and Q2 2020 assuredly had a massive impact in terms of traffic – with growth rates twice as high as the previous trends – it remained limited, as growth rates eventually retrieved their […]

December 10, 2021

Report: Is SVoD undermining MENA pay-TV market value?

In advanced TV markets, OTT developments have initially entailed revenue losses for operators who had been counting on high pay-TV penetrations for years, often associated with a preponderance of expensive cable offers, as is the case in North America, reports Dataxis. In MENA, the TV market follows an opposite model, characterised by the predominance of […]

December 1, 2021

Forecast: Viaplay at 6m subs by 2025

Anders Jensen, NENT’s President & CEO, recently expressed his confidence in Viaplay’s ability to reach its 500,000 international subscribers target by the end of 2021, notes Dataxis, the global market research firm. After a successful launch in the Baltics and in Poland this year, Viaplay will be looking at riding the expansion wave by entering […]

November 10, 2021