Data from Juniper Research has found that revenues from SVoD services, such as Netflix and Amazon, are set to more than double from $14.6 billion (€13bn) this year, to $34.6 billion in 2021. Netflix now sees US subscriber numbers level with leading network providers DirecTV and Comcast (47 million and 47.7 million respectively). Juniper’s research, […]
India has overtaken the US to become the world’s second largest Internet market, with 333 million users, trailing China’s 721 million. But a new report from the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development also confirms that just six nations – including China and India – together account for 55 per cent of the total global […]
The Royal Television Society (RTS) has unveiled an impressive line-up of heavy-weight speakers and thought-provoking sessions for the RTS London Conference 2016. The biennial event, which takes place on 27 September 2016 at Kings Place, is this year titled “Full Stream Ahead: Commissioning, Producing and Distributing Content in an Age of On-Demand” and will […]
So-called ‘skinny bundles’, TV packages composed of selected channels targeting specific customer segments, have the potential to attract elusive younger consumers to pay-TV, according to strategy consulting group Altman Vilandrie & Company’s 7th annual consumer video survey. However, the survey also shows that two-thirds of older consumers, pay-TV’s most reliable subscribers, say they are wasting […]
Amazon has announced the highly-anticipated launch date of the new Amazon Original series The Grand Tour with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. New episodes will be released weekly on Amazon Prime Video, every Friday for 12 weeks from November 18th, exclusively for all Prime members. The first ever episode of The Grand Tour […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has confirmed a new three-year deal for Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor, which will see two of the UK’s biggest television formats continuing on Britain’s most watched commercial channel until at least 2019. The agreement, with Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia UK, extends ITV’s successful, long-standing relationship with Simon Cowell […]
The Streaming Video Alliance (The Alliance), an industry forum comprised of leading companies from the online video ecosystem, and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA, are to collaborate to develop industry-wide guidelines to formalise metrics, associated terminology, and event and attribute access as it pertains to streaming media Quality of Experience (QoE). Additionally, based on the […]
Following the EC’s publication of its copyright reforms, a number of industry observers and trade bodies have reacted to the proposed changes, with many expressing concern at the ramifications for the content industry. According to John Enser, partner at media law firm Olswang, the proposed reforms show the European Commission’s desire for cross-border harmonisation, but […]
Given the poor economic prospects of most countries in the region and pay-TV market slowdown, the Eastern Europe Pay TV Operator Forecasts report from Digital TV Research notes that 44 of Eastern Europe’s top 64 operators will increase their subscriber bases between 2015 and 2021. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said: “So […]
UK Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has confirmed the reforms to the BBC that will require the organisation to be more open and transparent about its operations while making sure the public broadcaster continues to thrive in the future. The draft Royal Charter and the accompanying Framework Agreement set out the details of how the BBC […]