Broadband-only households in the US are set to grow from 19 million in 2017 to 37.2 million by 2022, according to estimates from Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. “A perfect storm of long-term trends including increase in streaming content suppliers, widespread utility-like status of broadband, and a demographic shift attributable […]
Openreach, the infrastructure subsidiary of BT, has launched a ‘fibre first programme’ – which it says starts a potentially huge upgrade of critical UK infrastructure. ‘Potentially’ as it seems to be making its commitment conditional on ‘a supportive public policy and regulatory environment that encourages infrastructure investment.’ It also called for the support of broadband […]
Vodafone Spain increased its subscribers in the third fiscal quarter (October 1st – December 31st 2017) but its total revenues remained almost flat. The company’s revenues grew by 0.3 per cent to €1.2 million. The number of subscribers significantly grew –mainly for its convergent package Vodafone One with a gain of 45,000 subscribers against the […]
Facebook users are spending less time on the social media since it overhauled its news feed function late last year. Facebook revealed that changes to its online algorithm contributed to a quarterly decline of 700,000 users in the US and Canada. The site is now prioritising posts from friends and family in an attempt to […]
With Discovery and its leading sports brand Eurosport on track to deliver the Olympic Winter Games to more people, across more screens than ever before, the broadcaster has developed a first-of-its kind methodology to measure audience behaviour across Europe. Discovery has unveiled three new metrics, which together will capture ‘Total Video’ – the new ‘TV’—across […]
Matrix Solutions, the global ad sales platform built for media, has released its first annual Advertising Spend Report – providing insights derived from the activity of more than 10,000 active users within media ad sales teams from 2016 to 2017. “According to our data, overall ad spend remained relatively flat from 2016 to 2017, which […]
A seminar organised in London by compression specialist ATEME and audio and video experts from Dolby Labs heard updated news on the planned roll-out of the latest plans for video compression. The event was the latest in a series of industry briefings held in Munich and Paris and another scheduled for Denver. Jérôme Vieron, (Director, […]
The National Football League (NFL), America’s most popular sports league, has reached an agreement with FOX Sports to broadcast the next five seasons of Thursday Night Football beginning with the 2018 season. “This agreement is the culmination of over 10 years of strategic growth around Thursday Night Football, a period during which this property has […]
Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) has declared its Q3 numbers (to September 30th 2017) saying that revenues were up 23 per cent for the nine months to $460 million (€370m), but with losses of $223 million ($75 million last year). GEE is building up media and broadband connectivity with in-flight and cruise ship entertainment now at […]
Luxembourg’s Grand Duke, Prince Guillaume and his wife Stephanie, were at Cape Canaveral Wednesday evening, along with Luxembourg’s prime minister Xavier Bettel, to watch SpaceX’s flawless launch of GovSat-1 (also known as SES-16) aboard a previously flown (“flight tested”) Falcon 9 rocket. Lift-off from the Cape’s Launch Complex 40 took place at 16:25 Eastern Time […]