Advanced Television

Consumer Behaviour

30% of August iPlayer requests from portables

The BBC has released iPlayer performance figures for August 2013: The online catch-up service recorded 234 million requests in August, up up 19 per cent on this time last year. Mobile and tablet requests made up 32 per cent of total BBC iPlayer requests – equalling the record set in June this year August saw […]

September 30, 2013By Nik Roseveare

1 in 4 Oz teens active online pirates

Fresh research commissioned by the Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (IPAF), an alliance of Australian film and television organisations, has revealed a number of insights regarding the attitudes and behaviour of Australians aged 12-17 to online film and television piracy. The independent study, undertaken by Sycamore Research in partnership with Newspoll, is the first in-depth study […]

September 30, 2013By Colin Mann

Signal outage key to US TV customer satisfaction

Not only is loss of signal the most frequently mentioned service outage, but it also has the greatest negative impact on customer satisfaction and future loyalty, according to the J.D. Power 2013 US Residential Television Service Provider Satisfaction Study. Key findings from the report include: Overall customer satisfaction among US television service customers is 699 […]

September 27, 2013

UK spends double time watching TV over social networking

TV still rules the living room when it comes to how we spend our time, according to a survey carried out on behalf of Panasonic. Brits spend nearly twice as much time watching TV as we do on social networking websites. The average Brit spends about 2.5 hours (156 minutes) watching television per day, while […]

September 26, 2013

TV still top source for news

More than half of the UK see the BBC as their single most important source of news, according to figures released by media regulator Ofcom. The report said TV remained by far the most important platform for news, used by 78 per cent of adults against 40 per cent who read newspapers, 35 per cent […]

September 26, 2013

250m to access adult content on mobile device by 2017

A report from Juniper Research has found that by 2017, a quarter of a billion people will use their mobile or tablet device to access adult content, such as videos, images and live cams, up by more than 30 per cent on current usage. The report highlighted that this was attributable to an emphasis on […]

September 25, 2013

Summer of growth for EU TV audiences

Despite the fact that this summer did not feature a FIFA World Cup, a UEFA European Championships or an Olympic Games, and despite the unusually warm summer weather in much of Europe, viewers remained gripped by TV. Commenting on this summer of success, Philippe Delusinne, President of the ACT said that: “Across Europe, broadcasters are […]

September 24, 2013

Consumers want ‘shopable’ videos

WeSEE, the advertising and visual classification company, has published research looking at the use of video in the online shopping journey. Findings include that the majority of consumers (56 per cent) would consider using ‘shopable’ videos to make

September 23, 2013

TiVo: TV drives new customers, Digital secures more sales

TiVo Research and Analytics, a provider of single-source TV viewing and purchase data for advertisers and TV networks, has released findings from a study examining purchase habits of consumers exposed to a Comcast Media 360 cross media TV and digital advertising campaign in the US. The data showed that TV and digital have different impacts […]

September 20, 2013

Internet consumption closing gap on TV in NZ, Australia

New Zealanders are spending more time than ever on the Internet, but traditional media still plays an important role in their lives, according to findings in a Digital Universe report from Roy Morgan Research. In fact TV, radio and print still account for 71.4 per cent of the time Kiwis spend with media per day. […]

September 20, 2013