Pay-per-view is becoming less and less popular in Spain. The rent of PPV services is dramatically falling with a drop of almost 1 million (859,935) in one year, according to data from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Last year saw 1,571,597 registered PPV sales against 2,431,533 in 2011. By comparison, in 2009 and 2008 the […]
India’s telecoms regulator (TRAI) says India’s six DTH platforms are now reaching more than 54.52 million pay-TV subscribers (as at Dec 31st) and well ahead of most forecasters’ expectations. In June 2012 the DTH numbers were no more than 48.1 million homes. Most industry observers now expect India’s 100 million DTH subscribers to hit 100 […]
Sky in the UK and Sky Deutschland have added 30,000 and 42,000 subscribers respectively in the first quarter of 2013. Sky is no longer breaking out DTH subscribers from those to its Now TV OTT offering so the DTH subscriber growth may have been flat or down, states MRG research. Sky in Germany has doubled […]
Vubiquity, a global provider of multiplatform video services, has revealed the results of a tracking study measuring consumer behaviours and attitudes toward VoD and TV Everywhere (TVE) in the US. In the survey, conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates during the fourth quarter of 2012, satisfaction with On Demand grew 5 per cent over 2010. […]
Annual revenue generated from content delivered to mobile handsets and tablets is expected to increase by nearly $25 billion over the next three years, reaching $65 billion by 2016, a report from Juniper has found. According to the report, growth would primarily be fuelled by an upsurge in game, video and eBook purchases via tablet […]
The number of US television homes is growing – and so is the TV audience. According to Nielsen’s 2014 Advance National TV Household Universe Estimate (UE), there are 115.6 million TV homes in the US, up 1.2 per cent from the 2012-2013 estimate of 114.2 million. Nielsen estimates that 294 million persons age 2 and […]
Google Fiber has been sold to roughly a third of homes in the few neighbourhoods where it’s offered in Kansas City, US. Bernstein Research surveyed about 200 homes in the narrow areas where the high-speed Internet and TV service is offered, or where it soon will be. It found that of the third subscribing to […]
Decipher has published its quarterly audit of VoD on the major UK DTV platforms and OTT services. One of the key changes in the landscape of UK VoD in the last six months has been the introduction, and then the rapid growth, of catch-up content on Sky. This was historically an area that Sky was […]
According to analysis by TDG, 56 per cent of all US broadband households have at least one TV connected to the Internet, either directly via smart TVs or indirectly via ancillary devices like game consoles and Blu-ray players. “Whether your goal is delivering OTT services to the TV, or expanding the level of control pay-TV […]
Despite all the talk of cord-cutting, a report from Digital TV Research states that the number of pay TV subscribers in the US will continue to increase – albeit at a slow rate. However, the Digital TV North America report states that pay TV penetration will remain flat. Simon Murray, report author, said: “Most of […]