One in three children in the UK now has their own tablet computer, which has nearly doubled in a year, according to Ofcom research,which also suggests the popularity of the tablet could be contributing to the declining number of children with a TV set in their bedroom. Among children aged between 5 and 15, 34 […]
Britons’ increasing appetite for watching video clips, TV and films on different devices helped drive advertisers to spend a record £3.5 billion (€4.4bn) on digital advertising in the first half of 2014 – according to the latest Internet Advertising Bureau UK Digital Adspend report, conducted byPwC, accompanied by online YouGov data. Among Britons online who own […]
In a further initiative designed to make it easy for Roku customers to connect their mobile devices with their TVs in fun and exciting ways, the connected streaming platform is rolling out a beta release of a new screen mirroring feature for a select number of Windows 8.1 and Android devices. Available to customers around […]
January to June viewing figures for 2014 from the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB) and the UK TV broadcasters reveal that viewers in the UK watched an average of 3 hours, 47 minutes a day of TV. This breaks down as 3 hours, 43 minutes of linear TV on a TV set plus 4 minutes […]
Orange’s Romanian satellite DTH pay-TV service says it has won 110,000 television subscribers since launch in June 2013. Orange Romania CEO Jean Francois Fallacher, speaking at a local conference organised by the Ziarul Financiar newspaper, said end-users are increasingly accessing TV services from their smartphones, tablets and computers, as well as the TV set. Orange […]
Virtually all Irish adults still prefer to watch live TV on their “normal” TV set, in their own homes, as opposed to out and about on portable devices – according to the latest eircom Household Sentiment Survey (eHSS). The bi-annual nationwide household survey of
The number of consumers using tablets to watch TV and movies has sky-rocketed in recent years and many consumers bought tablets for the first time last year, according to a new annual consumer survey by Altman Vilandrie & Company. The strategy consulting group notes that in August, critics scoffed at comments by Apple CEO Tim […]
Sky Italia and Telecom Italia have signed a new agreement, strengthening their partnership, to broadcast the Sky channels dedicated to the exclusive Uefa Champions League matches and UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers on TIM’s 3G and 4G networks. After the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the FIFA World Cup and the F1 world championship, TIMvision – Telecom […]
Digital television technology, software and services specialist Motive Television has declared it is well-positioned to start to reap the benefits of its heavy investment programme over the past few years, despite reporting an increased H1 loss of 10 per cent to £1,086,616 (H1 2013: £984,478) attributable to continuing activities and developing new business before interest. […]
Despite persistent claims by industry executives, authentication is not hindering use of ‘TV Everywhere’ services, according to new research from The Diffusion Group (TDG). The firm’s findings suggest that only 7 per cent of TV Everywhere (TVE) users view the process of authentication negatively, with less than 1 per cent ranking the process as ‘very […]