Spend on UK mobile ads rose 32 per cent from 2008 to £37.6 million (E44 million), says the Internet Advertising Bureau / PWC. This compares with £3.4 billion online. In keeping with online, search ads are the fastest-growing kind on mobile – up 42 per cent to £20.2 million. Display ads (banners, text links, pre-/post-roll […]
A report from Media Partners Asia forecasts that digital TV subscriptions will double and account 70 per cent of the total by 2014 and 82 per cent by 2020, up from just 34 per cent by the end of 2009, or 116 million. The report, Asia Pacific Pay-TV & Broadband Markets 2010, says that in […]
The global market for IPTV set-top boxes will rapidly increase in terms of shipments and revenue in the years to come, offering increased competition to legacy products in the STB market, according to a report from iSuppli. Sales of IPTV set-top boxes will grow from 19.4 million units in 2009 to 58 million in 2014, […]
Most consumer electronics (CE) device manufacturers are introducing software platforms that support widgets—also called TV applications—reports In-Stat. This sets the stage for a burgeoning new market and alters how people will access Internet content. “By 2013, TV applications have the potential to generate over $1.7 billion in annual revenue,” says Keith Nissen, In-Stat analyst. “Our […]
UK viewers are consuming more media than six months ago but spending less on it, according to a new survey by KPMG. The latest Media and Entertainment Barometer found that the average monthly consumption of traditional media rose from 11 hours 40 minutes in September 2009, to 12 hours 13 minutes in March 2010. Hours […]
Total US TV and online advertising revenues dropped 12 per cent in 2009, although online revenues grew, according to research from The Yankee Group. In 2009, the total US TV and online advertising market totalled $67 billion, compared to $77 billion in 2008, according to the research. TV advertising, by far the largest portion of […]
An estimated 800,000 US households stopped their cable, satellite or telco TV subscription services last year, a number that could double to 1.6 million by the end of 2011, according to a study from Convergence Consulting Group. The report found that 17 per cent of the weekly TV audience watches at least one or two […]
With the first round of 3D-capable TVs now reaching retail floors and plans for the top TV manufacturers to bring more products to market soon, DisplaySearch has increased its 2010 forecast for 3D-capable TV shipments. According to the latest Quarterly TV Design and Features Report, the market is forecast to grow from 2.5 million 3D-capable […]
Infonetics Research has released the fourth quarter editions of two video-related market share and forecast reports: Video Infrastructure and Subscribers and Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers. “In the ongoing battle between cable and telco IPTV operators, both continue to spend furiously to add video-on-demand and streaming content server capacity to support the rollout of on-demand HD […]
China’s online video users reached 240 million at the end of 2009, according to an annual government survey by the state-controlled China Internet Network Information Centre. It also revealed that 56.7 per cent of Chinese Web surfers are now more dependent on the Internet than on television. Television watching in China has dropped among 66.8 […]