Total TV market revenues in Western Europe amounted to €100.3 billion in 2018, up 2 per cent year-on-year, according to the Turning Digital report from Rome-based ITMedia Consulting. Even with an average inflation rate of 1.6 per cent in 2018, there was a limited positive growth also in real terms. The decline in demand for […]
Netflix has launched a new mobile plan for Malaysia. At RM17 (€3.65) per month, subscribers can watch all Netflix content in standard definition on one smartphone or tablet at a time. The mobile plan gives users access to all of Netflix’s entire local and international catalogue, with no ads, no-hassle cancellation, and Parental Controls to […]
Liftoff, a specialist in mobile app marketing and retargeting, has released its annual report on the state of mobile technology adoption in Japan with Adjust, experts in mobile measurement and fraud prevention. While streaming giants have yet to crack the country’s subscription market, the study reveals
New 5G mobile technologies are set to create an extra $1.4 trillion (€1.26tn) in gross domestic product (GDP) for worldwide economies over the next decade, according to a report by Huawei and independent research and consulting firm STL Partners. Healthcare and manufacturing
It hasn’t been the best of weeks for Europe’s two main satellite operators. Eutelsat has suffered the loss of an important solar array on its latest satellite, Eutelsat 5 West B. The satellite is fully insured so there will be capital loss but the performance of the satellite is bound to be impaired. Eutelsat says […]
Around the world, streaming video viewing has reached an all-time high of six hours, 48 minutes a week, with 82 per cent of people who watch online video reporting binge-watching, according to the latest State of Online Video research report from edge cloud services provider Limelight Networks. Binge-watching sessions are on the rise worldwide, jumping […]
South Korea electronic giant LG has just reported a Q3 loss for its Display division – its first loss in 8 years. The loss, of $372 million (€334.1m), for the July-September period reflects falling sales down 4.6 per cent on the same period a year ago. A week ago the company’s newly appointed CEO, Jeong […]
Premier motorsport category Formula 1 is to live stream on-track action from a Grand Prix weekend via the Twitch web site and app for the very first time. All sessions at the Mexican Grand Prix over the weekend of October 25th to October 27th will be shown live and free in Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Denmark, […]
Comcast beat Wall Street forecasts for Q3 as the company added high-speed internet customers, but it lost more video subscribers than expected. Revenue rose 21.2 per cent to $26.83 billion, beating analysts’ average estimate of $26.77 billion (€24.1bn). Comcast showed that its focus on the higher-margin broadband business – necessary to stream content – is […]
The Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) has reported Q3 sales of SEK 3,799m (€355m) with 10 per cent organic growth. Viaplay subscribers were up 37,000 from Q2, and up 25 per cent year-on-year. Operating income for combined business segments hit SEK 367 million whilst total operating income was at SEK 302 million costs related to the […]