Smartphones continue their meteoric popularity and are now owned in 87 per cent of US homes, second only to televisions at 96 per cent ownership, according to Consumer Technology Association (CTA) research. CTA’s 20th Consumer Technology Ownership and Market Potential Study also shows that for the first time, the top three most-frequently owned tech products […]
Mobile video consumption continues to rise but growth stabilised in Q1 2018; total video plays increased during the quarter just 1.8 per cent from the prior year, according to Ooyala’s Q1 2018 Global Video Index Report. The increase was one of the smallest in 14 quarters, and also marked the first quarter-over-quarter decline in mobile’s […]
AT&T has confirmed the launch of a new mobile bundle of TV and music content acquired with its takeover of Time Warner. The WatchTV app will offer streaming access to over 30 live TV channels, as well as over 15,000 on-demand movies and TV shows. Subscribers can also add premium services such as HBO, Starz […]
Data from eMarketer forecasts that by the end of this year, Instagram will have 104.7 million users in the US, up 13 per cent over last year. That means more than half (53 per cent) of US social network users will be on Instagram. The social media sharing app is set to generate $5.48 billion […]
Viacom has confirmed a first mobile distribution deal for Paramount+ – an agreement with Telenor to make the video streaming product available as a premium service to its mobile subscribers in Sweden as part of its new ‘Telenor Stream Film och Serier’ streaming service. The deal is the first Viacom has signed to make Paramount+ […]
Spain’s largest telco, Telefónica, has launched its global agreement with Netflix, signed last May, to offer the streaming service to UK subscribers. Netflix has been integrated into Telefónica-owned O2 for free for up to 12 months. New and current O2 customers can receive a free subscription to the service for 8 to 12 months. O2 […]
MobiTV, a global player in application-based pay-TV video delivery solutions, has announced it is the first multi-tenant video delivery solutions provider to secure hosted streaming delivery rights for more than 210 major networks, including C-SPAN Networks, Disney and ESPN Media Networks, Fox Networks, Fuse Media Networks, Hallmark Channel, Game Show Network, NBCUniversal, Pac-12 Networks, Reelz, Showtime, […]
Independent research based on over 3,000 European subscribers on behalf of Openwave Mobility has found that 1 in 3 football fans (31 per cent) will watch the 2018 Russia World Cup using mobile data. This is nearly double the number of people that watched the 2014 Brazilian World Cup (17 per cent) using mobile data. […]
Despite the abiding appeal of traditional linear TV, cinema, radio and offline games, many Internet users in France and Germany now devote a major part of their time to online entertainment. “Digital video viewing has grown steadily in France and Germany, but penetration still lags behind several other countries in Western Europe, including the UK […]
Consumers in the UK are watching more digital video content than ever before with mobile viewing on the rise, according to eMarketer’s latest time spent with video forecast. The forecast, which is included in eMarketer’s UK Digital Video and TV forecast report, shows that adults in the UK will spend just under an hour (59 […]