Samsung Ads Europe reveals in its latest report on the Samsung Smart TV landscape, Behind The Screens, that streaming habits, accelerated by the pandemic, have become routine as consumers adjust to post-lockdown life. Samsung Ads Europe, the media and advertising division of Samsung Electronics, leveraged insights from millions of Samsung Smart TV devices across ‘EU5’ […]
Broadband networks and all that comes with them – CDNs, nodes, edge servers etc – were expected to fall over in the pandemic. The forecast of friction points, and outright failure, as traffic caused by WFH and more time to use entertainment, was so solid that the big streamers voluntarily cut their data intensity, trading […]
Live video infrastructure platform 100ms has announced a $4.5 million (€3.8m) seed round of funding led by Accel with participation from Strive.vc. 100ms provides infrastructure that allows any company to add Zoom-style video conferencing inside their app within hours. It was founded by the team that built live video infrastructure powering billions of video minutes […]
French public service broadcaster France Télévisions and private broadcaster TF1 have taken legal action against Canal+, accusing the pay-TV operator of not observing release windows. The pair are seeking reparation of over €41 million, following Canal+’s decision to offer free-to-view access to its content and films on all IPTV boxes during the first Covid lockdown […]
Parks Associates has announced the release of its latest Consumer Insights Dashboard, a new ongoing service that analyses the firm’s quarterly surveys of 10,000 US broadband households to track consumer adoption of home devices and services. The research reveals that among the most commonly adopted CE device categories, smart TVs and smart speakers/displays showed significant […]
GroupM has releasing the findings from its This Year Next Year UK 2021 Forecast update, which provides forecasts of media companies’ advertising revenues for 2021. It now expects the overall advertising market to grow by 30 per cent this year vs the previous estimate of 24 per cent published in the June findings. This is […]
Attest, a consumer research platform, has released its third annual US Media Consumption Report and the findings point to more seismic shifts in what American eyes and ears are tuning into in 2021. For brands trying to navigate the second coming of the ‘Roaring 20s’, a digital ad spend boom, and a general fatigue for […]
Findings from streaming platform and device specialist Roku’s annual survey, The Streaming Decade, indicate that, over the last year, the shift to TV streaming was accelerated by the pandemic with more content – including live programming and new movie releases – moving to TV streaming. The ease-of-use, cost-savings, and content quality of TV streaming was […]
Ofcom has published the latest data on the complaints it receives about the UK’s major home phone, broadband, mobile and pay-TV firms. The quarterly report reveals the number of complaints made to Ofcom between January and March this year about telecoms and pay-TV providers with a market share over 1.5 per cent. It therefore covers […]
Streaming TV data for Europe that shows the pandemic has spurred a tipping point in streaming with no signs of slowing down, as well as which devices are dominating the market. Conviva’s Q2 2021 State of Streaming: Europe report shows that streaming viewing time in Europe was up 19 per cent overall in Q2, despite […]