An academic study comparing box office revenues before and after the shutdown of popular file hosting platform Megaupload.com has found that box office revenues of a majority of movies did not increase after the shutdown. The study – Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload: A Tale of the Long Tail? – was undertaken by […]
According to new research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), Late Millennials (18-24s) who move into their first non-college residence are equally likely to sign up immediately for cable, satellite, or telco TV services as they are to delay or forgo it altogether. This data is drawn from TDG’s latest multi-client primary research project, Late Millennials: […]
Consumers are expected to spend $555 per person on new consumer electronics devices this year, a 9 per cent increase over 2012, according to the 2013 Household Penetration Study from global information company, The NPD Group. According to the report, nearly three-in-four (72 per cent) consumers expect to buy a consumer electronics product over the […]
The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service recorded 242 million requests in July – up 38 per cent on the same time last year. Sport boosted live viewing and listening on BBC iPlayer thoughout July, with the proportion of live requests to TV and radio both up month-on-month to 15 per cent and 85 per cent respectively. […]
According to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), Late Millennials living at home with their parents are, once they move out on their own, more likely to subscribe to an online pay-TV service like Netflix or Hulu Plus than a legacy pay-TV service such as cable or satellite. This data is drawn from TDG’s latest […]
Newly-released streaming media and connected TV research from Parks Associates indicates that the number of US broadband households with a streaming video media device, such as a Roku or an Apple TV, has doubled since 2011, reaching 14 per cent in 2013. In the report – Connected TV: Trends and Innovation – the firm notes […]
US homes that tune into family network programming or subscribe to premium movie channels are 20 per cent more likely than other network viewers to have their TV connected to the internet. According to the new Connected Home Consumer Index Report from NPD Connected Intelligence, family network viewers are 22 per cent more likely to […]
Internet media platform blinkx has unveiled the results of its first Nation of Sharers study – looking at the evolution of search behaviour. The Nation of Sharers study has found that 40 per cent of people aged 18-34 prefer to use their social networks over search engines when looking for content online – this means twitter over […]
New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 86 per cent of US households subscribe to some form of multi-channel video service. While major multi-channel video providers reported a cumulative increase of less than 1 per cent of subscribers over the past three years, penetration has slightly declined over that time as a […]
Viewers with access to online video sources on their TV are more likely than their counterparts to be reconsidering the value proposition of incumbent pay-TV services, suggests a new report from The Diffusion Group (TDG). The report – Net-Connected TV User Dimensions – finds that adult broadband users with an Internet-connected TV are twice as […]