Amid a plunge in subscribers for cable, and now satellite providers, IPTV was the only segment of the U.S. pay-TV market to achieve growth in the second quarter, according to a new report from information and analytics provider IHS. The US IPTV providers – represented by AT&T Uverse, Verizon FiOS and others – boasted a […]
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 […]
Based on forecasts for 97 countries, on-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programs (and excluding revenues from other sources such as sports and adult and also excluding SVOD packages and online TV & video (OTT)) will reach $6.0 billion in 2018, up by 44 per cent from $4.2 billion in 2012. On-demand TV generated […]
The connected TV market is rapidly evolving in the Middle East and Africa with increasing sales of connected device fuelling demand for OTT, cloud and multi-screen services. Informa Telecoms & Media says 6.5 million tablets were sold across the Middle East and Africa in 2012, with this figure forecast to increase almost fivefold to 32.1 […]
The number of households subscribing to a pay television service in Central America will reach 4.4 million by 2018, new research carried out by Dataxis predicts. A region historically associated with low pay-TV penetration rates, Central America is starting to catch up with more developed Latin American multichannel markets. In only four years between 2008 […]
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 […]
Global pay-TV is expected to grow consistently over the next five years, with Latin America’s growth rates set to rise above the global average in the period to 9-10 per cent CAGR, says Marcel Fenez, global leader of PwC Entertainment & Media and chairman of Asian pay-TV organization CASBAA. He told the Brazilian pay-TV association […]
A growing market and ecosystem is forecast for Ultra HD technology by the US’s Consumer Electronics Association. The analysis, contained in a new report – Ultra High-Definition: State of the Industry – provides a snapshot of the emerging Ultra HD market, with overviews of key industry segments including content development, production, and delivery, as well […]
Brazil’s pay-TV growth over the past few years has been extraordinary, and despite a slowdown this current year, to a miserable 12 per cent, the typical annual growth rate has been nearer 30 per cent annually. Today’s pay-TV sub numbers about 17 million households, but according to Brazil’s communications minister Paulo Bernardo, his department sees […]
Subscription television advertising revenues in Australia increased by 12.5 per cent in the six months to June 30th 2013, according to new data audited by Ernst & Young. A record $237,648,703 was spent advertising goods and services to subscription television audience during the six month period, up by $26 million on the same time last […]