Portugal experienced the slowest annual growth in pay-TV subscribers since 2006, adding only 40,000 new subscribers (+0.9 per cent) in the second quarter of 2025, reaching a total of 4.7 million. According to data published by the National Communications Authority (Anacom), fibre optic connections continue to dominate the market, accounting for 68.2 per cent of […]

Demand and willingness to pay for pay-TV and paid video content in Germany continues to grow, despite a difficult economic climate and complex regulation. In 2024, revenues from pay-TV and paid video-on-demand rose by around 6 per cent to €5.5 billion. For the current year 2025, VAUNET – German Media Association – expects revenues to […]

Media Partners Asia (MPA) has released its latest Asia Video Content Dynamics 2025 report, tracking content investment, consumption, and production across seven key Asian markets: India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of consumption and content investment across  Asia’s fast-evolving video ecosystem across TV, online video, and […]

Analysts at Quilty Space have updated its model to include a forecast for Starlink’s broadband-by-satellite division for 2026. Quilty projects revenues of $15.9 billion (€13.6bn), EBITDA of $11 billion, and Pro-forma free cash flow of $4.9 billion. Quilty’s report suggests that by the end of this year Starlink could have 8.2 million customers, and “sustaining […]

Novaspace’s 13th edition of its Prospects for In-Flight Connectivity Report finds NGSO services poised to revolutionise in-flight connectivity (IFC) standards. NGSO’s share of commercial aviation IFC is set to skyrocket from just 1 per cent in 2024 to 63 per cent by 2034, driving 76 per cent of total operator revenues by decade’s end. “2024 […]

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks and data centre industries, total global revenue for the Broadband access equipment market increased to $4.7 billion (€4bn) in Q2 2025, up 7 per cent Q/Q and 1 per cent Y/Y. Despite the high level of macroeconomic uncertainty, […]

Pact has published the 2025 edition of the Pact Census, a report by Oliver and Ohlbaum Associates. It shows that total TV production revenues saw sluggish growth in 2024, increasing slightly by 1.4 per cent to £3.66 billion (€4.23bn), as the sector navigates a challenging commissioning market at home and abroad. This slight growth in […]

Some 4.7 billion people, or 58 per cent of the world’s population, now use mobile internet services on their own device, according to the  annual State of Mobile Internet Connectivity report from the GSMA, the industry body for the mobile sector. However, despite 96 per cent of the global population living in areas with mobile internet […]

Rakuten TV, the European streaming platform, has revealed findings from its survey, A Clearer Picture, exploring UK advertisers’ current views on media investments in CTV. The study found that 97 per cent of marketers have concerns around transparency, while 74 per cent plan to increase their programmatic CTV spend in the near future. In order […]

The UK video entertainment market is holding its course, with total consumer spend expected to rise 2 per cent in 2025 to £11.4 billion (€13.1bn) according to Futuresource Consulting’s latest Video Insights UK report, which highlights SVoD as the powerhouse of growth, alongside a stronger year for box office and signs of stabilisation in transactional […]