A survey of children’s media use in America by kids and family education body Common Sense Media has recorded a dramatic increase in children’s access to mobile media devices in just two years. Among families with children eight and under, there has been a five-fold increase in ownership of tablets (from 8 per cent to […]
Canada’s broadcasting and communications regulator the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has launched Let’s Talk TV: A Conversation with Canadians, a discussion about the future of Canada’s television system. “Canadians have an unprecedented choice of television programs that includes the best of what Canada, and the world, has to offer,” said Jean-Pierre Blais, Chairman […]
The BBC has revealed that its iPlayer app for iOS and Android mobile devices has been downloaded over 20 million times in total, as mobile and tablet TV viewing overtakes TV viewing on PC. Christmas Day 2011 and 2012 marked the top days for app downloads, with 229,200 and 385,600 downloads respectively, when many smartphones […]
According to market intelligence firm TDG’s most recent consumer research project, Video Behavior in the Age of Quantum Media, of the 28 per cent of consumers likely to purchase an Internet set-top box (iSTB) in the next six months, 56 per cent indicate their motivation is due in some degree to their desire to use […]
Australia’s online video market is being driven by the growing popularity of mobile devices and tablets and boosted by the preference of younger consumer age groups towards online video channels as a direct substitute for traditional TV, according to Frost & Sullivan’s latest report, Australian Online Video Market 2013. Frost & Sullivan predicts expenditure on […]
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services, has published a scientific study that leveraged data from hundreds of millions of online videos and advertisements measured using the Akamai Sola Analytics media measurement and analysis product. The study analysed in aggregate 367 million videos and 257 million ads from over 3,000 publishers that were viewed by […]
Research sponsored by Veveo, a provider of semantic technologies designed to bridge the usability gap in connected devices and applications with intelligent search, discovery and personalisation solutions, reveals that pay-TV users perceive content discovery in television to be inadequate for their needs. Furthermore, the research found that pay-TV usability is not keeping pace with the […]
Blu-ray disc sales, by and large, are not doing well. Except in Germany, where physical disc sales grew 9.9 per cent during the first-half of this year (and in retail value terms grew 11.8 per cent) to €625 million according to data from the German BVV video association. Germany’ s love affair with Blu-ray is […]
Weve, the UK mobile advertising joint venture firm, has published a study claiming nearly half of all 18-34 year olds use their phones as their ‘first screen’. Forty-six per cent of 18-34 year olds participating in the survey, which surveyed 2,000 18-55+ year olds in total, cited mobile as their “most important screen”, with 28 […]
Barely a quarter of Russian Internet users are prepared to pay for online content, according to the findings of a survey conducted by Public Opinion Foundation. The survey, published to coincide with Russian Internet Week 2013 in Moscow, suggested that 25 per cent of respondents were ready to pay for watching or downloading movies. Twenty-two […]