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Medianet achieves success with SmartLabs multi-screen IPTV provision in Maldives

Medianet, the largest independent cable television provider in Maldives, has chosen SmartLabs to offer a multi-screen, multi-network IPTV streaming solution. The offering has gone live to Medianet’s existing subscribers and has the capacity to support a much higher number of users when tourism returns to its peak following the Coronavirus pandemic, where during its busier […]

July 7, 2021

Japan: Pay-TV services revenue to grow at 2.2% CAGR

Despite a decline in the overall pay-TV accounts, pay-TV services revenue in Japan is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.2 per cent over the forecast period 2020-2025 supported by increasing aggregate average revenue per user (ARPU), according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. GlobalData’s Japan pay-TV Forecast Model […]

June 28, 2021

TiVo, NCC sign Master Services Agreement

Entertainment technologist TiVo has signed a Master Services Agreement with US cable industry body the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), which operates as a programming, broadband solutions and hardware purchasing organisation. This concerns the newly-acquired MobiTV assets with the NCTC and its member companies, giving NCTC members the opportunity to continue to receive the MobiTV […]

June 16, 2021

France: IPTV, connected TV grow in 2020

French TV reception methods are now largely dominated by IPTV, according to the 2020 findings of broadcast regulator CSA’s Observatory for TV homes equipment. At the end of 2020, IPTV accounted for a 60.5 per cent penetration rate, up 2.1 per cent, with an access share from FTTH estimated to 25 per cent at the […]

June 2, 2021From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Italy: Illegal IPTV services taken down

An extensive operation – Operazione Black out – carried out by Italy’s Polizia di Stato (State Police) against audiovisual piracy, aimed at combating the phenomenon of illegal IPTV services, has seen the dismantling of what it described as a complex criminal infrastructure, both from an organisational and technological point of view. The measures were carried […]

May 18, 2021By Colin Mann

Forecast: Pay-TV revenues down $30bn by 2026

Global pay-TV revenues for 138 countries peaked in 2016 at $201 billion (€166bn), according to the Global Pay TV Revenue Forecasts from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Revenues will fall to $143 billion in 2026 from $173 billion in 2020 – despite the number of pay-TV subscribers rising by 15 million. US pay-TV revenues peaked […]

May 17, 2021

Forecast: Pay-TV to add 15m subs

The Global Pay TV Subscriber Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research predicts 15 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2020 and 2026, to take the global total to 1.02 billion. Between 2020 and 2026, 92 countries will add pay-TV subscribers and 46 countries will lose subscribers. “China and India will together continue to provide […]

May 4, 2021

Analysis: W Europe nears 122m OTT subs

Findings from Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, suggest that the 16 countries in its analysis had a combined 121.9 million paid subscriptions at the end of 2020, with the UK, Germany and France occupying the top three positions. In a blog post, Michail Chandakas, Associate Research Analyst, and Vladimir Ryazantsev, […]

April 26, 2021

Analysis: Broadband outranks pay-TV in W Europe

The number of Western European pay-TV subscribers will fall by 4 million between 2020 and 2026 to 103 million, according to the Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Reflecting the importance of high-speed broadband for homes, IPTV is the top pay-TV platform by subscribers. IPTV will gain 4 million […]

April 8, 2021

Analyst: APAC to reach 630m pay-TV subs

Asia Pacific will have 630 million pay-TV subscribers by 2026, up from 609 million at end-2020, according to the Asia Pacific OTT TV and Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. India will add 21 million. China and India together will have nearly 500 million subs. The number of TV households will grow […]

March 15, 2021