The world online movies market is forecast to reach $4.44 billion by the year 2017, according to new report by Global Industry Analysts (GIA). Growth in the post recession period will be driven by continued penetration of broadband Internet, rising consumer spending on digital rentals, and introduction of advanced 3D to home markets. The report […]
ITV, PACT, Channel 4 and BSkyB have jointly commissioned an independent report into the contribution made by the UK audiovisual industry to the economic growth and cultural success of the nation – and how that momentum can be sustained. The Chief Executives of all four organisations have also written to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, […]
LG Electronics (LG), has revealed that over a third (37 per cent) of Brits say that the 2012 Olympics would tempt them to buy a 3D TV next year, with another 25 per cent saying that the Euro 2012 would also make them consider moving to a new dimension. The survey of 2,000 people, conducted […]
Seventy-four per cent of all UK households now have the Internet at home according to Ofcom research, an increase of three percentage points from 2009. And the amount of time adult Internet users say they spend on the Internet has increased from 12.2 hours in 2009 to 14.2 hours in 2010. 12-15 year olds now […]
Total US pay TV subscribers remained flat, growing by only some 148,000 during 2010, a 0.15 per cent annual growth rate, indicating no current trend toward video cord cutting/shaving, according to In-Stat. “A substantial portion of pay TV subscribers, however, exhibit similar characteristics to video cord cutting households,” says Keith Nissen, Principal Analyst. “It is […]
March saw a new record for live streaming on BBC’s iPlayer for both TV and radio with 15 per cent of all requests for TV programmes being streamed live. In its monthly report, the BBC said the total number of iPlayer requests in March was 160 million, lightly down on the 162 million January record. […]
With more than 165 million tablets expected to ship over the next two years, tablets are growing in popularity and changing the way that we consume content. People are spending considerable time with tablet devices and using them to play games, browse the web and search for information. Growth in the tablet market is only […]
The majority of consumers of all ages in seven major markets around the world are choosing to watch video content over the Internet via their televisions, PCs, smartphones and other electronic devices, according to Accenture’s Video-Over-Internet Consumer Usage Survey. Among 6,500 consumers surveyed, 85 per cent of participants ages 18 to 24, 82 per cent […]
While only 1.4 per cent of US consumers have cut the cord in the last two years, 7 per cent of current pay-television subscribers are considering cancelling their service, according to a Consumer Reports survey. In addition, for the third year in a row, Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse were the highest-rated providers of triple-play […]
Watch for more Canadians to dump their traditional phone and TV subscriptions, says a new report from Toronto’s Convergence Consulting. Canadian telco residential wireline telephone line loss was 7 per cent in 2010 (as it was in 2009) and the research company forecasts 8 per cent for 2011 and 9 per cent for 2012 and […]