The latest figures released by Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – show that the average TV viewer in the UK watched a total of 3 hours, 51 minutes of TV a day in 2015, 1 per cent less than in 2014 but 5 per cent more than in 2005. […]
FreeWheel has released its Q4 2015 Video Monetization Report that examines the state of the video market. The research highlighted some key findings from the quarter – and 2015 as a whole. For example, European broadcasters monetised the majority of their dynamically served content across long-form on-demand, now accounting for 88 per cent of total […]
Live streaming and live-to-VoD solutions provider Simplestream is partnering with sports media rights specialist MP & Silva. The partnership will see Simplestream provide services and solutions that support MP & Silva’s Technology Services Ecosystem, enabling its sports federations, clubs and media clients to maximise audiences through multiscreen and OTT video services. Simplestream will support MP […]
The advent of On Demand, IPTV and OTT viewing trends has spurred the global TV industry into a new ‘golden age’, according to Eric Ellenbogen, the Co-Head of International TV & DreamWorks Classics, DreamWorks Animation. “Today’s TV programming features the biggest stars in the entertainment industry,” said Ellenbogen during a keynote speech at the CABSAT […]
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen, covering the fourth quarter of 2015 – shows that, despite the proliferation of connected devices, the vast majority of all video viewing in Australia takes place on in-home TV sets. Across all screens and all types of video content – broadcast and non-broadcast […]
The number of physical stores selling music, video and games has reached an all-time high of more than 14,800, according to latest figures published by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) – the UK trade association representing the vast majority of retailers and digital services offering music, video and games – in the annual Entertainment Retailers […]
Later in 2106, AT&T plans to launch the ability for customers to access and stream DirecTV video services over a wired or wireless Internet connection from any provider and from virtually any device – smartphone, tablet, Smart TV, streaming media hardware or PC. What AT&T describes as three new affordable video offers will be designed […]
As an entertainment category, online video is thriving, offering viewers massive amounts of content, highly targeted genres and sub-genres, and bite-sized formats making it easy to watch on the go—all of which has made the category immensely popular with the types of young consumers advertisers covet, according to Hub Entertainment Research. Hub’s recently-released study – […]
Although Apple’s iOS operating system still sees the bulk of TV Everywhere (TVE) authentications, analysis from Adobe Digital Index (ADI) shows TVE consumption slowly moving toward connected devices, such as Apple TV and Roku. According to ADI’s Q4 Digital Video Benchmark report, iOS share of TVE decreased 20 per cent year over year (YoY), while […]
Findings from IHS looking at consumer spend on movies and TV suggest a clear correlation between the launch of Netflix and a decline in video spending. The IHS Technology report – Did Netflix Kill the Physical Video Market? – notes that before Netflix launched its streaming service in the US in 2007, spending on buying […]