The Italian TV market value has dropped by 5.2 per cent – nearly €500 million – between 2011 and 2012, according to the report “The television market in Italy: 2012-2014” from Italy’s ITMedia Consulting. The economic downturn has hit the TV and advertising industry – and for the first time a drop in the pay-TV […]
More proof that DVRs have entered the mainstream has emerged with fresh consumer research from Leichtman Research Group. The research and analyst firm found that 52 per cent of households in the US that subscribe to a multi-channel video service have a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), compared to 4 per cent of TV households that […]
The latest Worldwide IPTV Subscriber Market report from Research and Markets Ltd has found that the global IPTV subscriber market totaled around 65.7 million by the end of the first quarter of 2012, growing 34.5 per cent year-on-year. As IPTV penetration rate is near saturation in Western Europe, it is projected that Asia will become […]
Digital world measurement specialist comScore has confirmed the US Beta release of MMX Multi-Platform, the next generation of digital audience measurement and media planning. Building on MMX, Mobile Metrix and Video Metrix from comScore’s Audience Analytics suite, the product offers unduplicated accounting of audience size and demographics that reflects today’s multi-platform digital media environment, which […]
Over 220 million Smart TV sets will be sold worldwide in 2017, up from the 54 million that will be sold in 2012, according to Informa Telecoms & Media’s Smart TV device forecasts. Thirty one per cent of households worldwide will own at least one Smart TV in five years time, with household penetration much […]
Although general video subscriptions remain flat to slightly negative, a growing number of broadband households are doing without pay-tv, according to new research from TDG. The analyst firm finds that 13 per cent of broadband subscribers – some 11 million households – do not subscribe to cable-like pay-TV services. TDG’s latest report, PayTV Refugees: A […]
Perhaps proving once and for all that the need to be entertained at home makes TV spending counter-cyclical, it is revealed that over the last year Spaniards have spent 18 per cent more on pay-TV services, largely due to the increase of pay TV fees and pay TV subscribers, according to the latest survey by ONTSI, […]
Total revenues for Europe’s top pay-TV channels will reach $4.24 billion in 2012, according to a new report by Digital TV Research. The TV Channel Revenues in Europe report expects this figure to grow by $1.04 billion to reach $5.28 billion by 2017. The report covers 195 international channels/networks (non-premium) from 11 groups. The estimates […]
A study by Point Topic shows Europe is now half-way towards achieving its aim of giving all inhabitants access to superfast broadband by 2020. The study was produced for DG Connect, the department of the European Commission which is responsible for its “Digital Agenda” strategy. The purpose of the Digital Agenda is to harness the […]
The financial crisis is wreaking havoc with the Spanish broadcasters, who have now seen their ad revenues decline 50 per cet since 2007. At the annual meeting of UTECA, the private TV association, President Antonio Fernandez-Galiano warned of the critical financial situation of the channels and envisaged a gloomy year in 2013. “The situation (ad […]