According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, reaching 11.2 exabytes per month (for an annual run rate of 134 exabytes) by 2017. The expected steady increase in mobile traffic is partly due to continued […]
The worldwide Pay-TV market grew at a steady pace in 2012 generating $238 billion by end-of-year, up from $223 billion in 2011, according to ABI Research’s Pay-TV ARPU and Revenues Market Data. The global Pay-TV market is expected to generate $304 billion in 2018 with a CAGR of 4 per cent. Service revenue contributions from […]
Nativ, the media management and workflow expert, has published an independent report outlining the shortcomings and challenges of Internet delivery and is setting out its vision for helping the market overcome these. In recent years the consumption of content over Internet-enabled devices has exploded. There is a rush to dominate the Internet TV service proposition […]
On the one hand the demand for video-on-the-move is growing exponentially says a new report from Juniper Research. Juniper says the number of users of mobile video calling services is forecast to increase four-fold to almost 160 million by 2017, driven by improvements in both the user-interface and the underlying technology. However, while advertising and […]
According to global information company,The NPD Group, while traditional pay TV operators and broadcast networks still dominate the consumer television landscape, new options are emerging, from subscription video on demand (SVoD), to electronic sell-through (EST), to free TV streaming. According to the firm, while SVoD drives the most online TV streams by far, the incidence […]
The growth of the US IPTV market continued to decelerate in the fourth quarter of 2012, due to the impact of Hurricane Sandy and the slowing expansion of Verizon’s FiOS service. The two major US IPTV players, Verizon and AT&T, reported a combined gain of 326,000 video subscribers in the fourth quarter, down 19 per […]
Nearly a quarter of high-definition television (HDTV) owners in the US (22 per cent) purchased their televisions for the specific purpose of watching the Super Bowl, according to the forthcoming Sports and Technology Study V by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). No other sporting event comes close to prompting that many purchases of HDTVs. Accordingly, […]
According to The NPD Group, sales of Blu-ray discs and DVDs remain the largest source of revenue for the movie industry, accounting for 61 per cent of home-video spending on movies (excluding Netflix and other movie-streaming subscriptions) in 2012. The previous year the Blu-ray and DVD movie share was 64 per cent; NPD attributes some […]
A new centre dedicated to examining the changing nature of copyright and the need for new business models in the digital age is being launched on January 31st at the University of Glasgow. The Centre for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology (CREATe) brings together internationally renowned researchers from seven UK universities who will work to […]
IDATE forecasts that in 2020, for the USA and EU combined, OTT communication service revenues will have increased to €15 billion from €7 billion in 2012. Yet they will still only account for 6 per cent of total communication service revenues, with telcos accounting for the remaining 94 per cent. The total market will decline, […]