A pre-CES survey from consulting firm Accenture suggests that consumers intend to buy fewer televisions this year and fewer are regularly watching content on them. According to the 2012 Global Consumer Electronics Products and Services Usage Report – which surveyed 10,000 consumers across Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the […]
One per cent of consumers are generating half of all traffic. The top 10 per cent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 per cent of wireless bandwidth. Arieso the UK consultancy documented the statistical gap when it tracked 1.1 million customers of a European mobile operator during a 24-hour period in November. The gap between […]
The proliferation of devices is increasing access to content, which recent data suggest is driving more consumption, according to consultancy firm Deloitte’s sixth edition State of the Media Democracy survey, which reveals that the introduction of new platforms has led to increases in the consumption of movies and books. The survey assesses media consumption preferences […]
The growth of online TV viewing in the UK is slowing, according to figures from BARB. Almost 15 per cent of respondents to BARB’s biannual study, which tracked viewing habits over a week in November 2011, said they watched TV on a PC, laptop or tablet computer during that period – a rise of only […]
2012 will be a watershed year for the media industry that will see a decline in traditional TV consumption, according to Rich Greenfield of analyst firm BTIG. “We believe 2012 will be a watershed year for the media industry and serve as a historic inflection point for traditional TV consumption,” he writes in a blog […]
Researcher Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates says that in 2010 UK viewers watched 93 billion hours of TV, which works out to around 28 hours per person per week, an increase of 14 billion hours compared to 2006. While time-shifted content has contributed to the growth of TV consumption, linear broadcast has continued to grow: 80 […]
Consumer behaviour and TV set maker strategies are resulting in widely diverging TV product ranges across the world. While the industry is truly global, regional differences are increasing. For 3D, the most enthusiastic regions are Western Europe and China, while the mix of 3D in North America actually declined in Q3’11, according to the Q4’11 […]
Findings from customer experience analytics firm ForeSee’s annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index show that after seven years spent jockeying for first place in the Index, Amazon and Netflix are headed in divergent directions. Amazon climbed two points to score 88 on the study’s 100-point scale, registering the highest score from any retailer in 14 consecutive […]
According to the research from Informa Telecoms & Media, awareness of Smart TVs remains low as UK retailers fail to educate consumers of their benefits and provide even the most basic information regarding connected-TV features. Informa estimates that 35 per cent of all TVs sold this year will be “smart”, however, this is a result […]
According to The NPD Group, even with the increasing number of iVOD-capable devices the vast majority of these devices were not used to rent iVOD movies. Only 5 per cent of the 134 million US consumers who own iVOD-capable devices used them to do so. Even among owners of dedicated streaming media devices, only 14 […]