For the second quarter in a row, North American digital pay TV operators added fewer subscribers than in the preceding period, according to figures from Strategy Analytics. Comcast added only 219,000 new digital subs in the third quarter, a sharp decrease from Q2 adds of 394,000. Satellite operator Dish saw its second consecutive quarter of […]
According to SNL Kagan’s analysis the US multichannel segment fell by 119,000 customers in the third quarter of 2010, compared to a 346,000 gain reported in third-quarter 2009. US cable operators lost 741,000 basic video customers in third-quarter 2010, marking the single largest quarterly dip for cable since Kagan began compiling data for the segment […]
A UK research study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cisco, investigating consumer viewing habits and expectations of TV and Internet-delivered TV reveals that consumers are dictating where broadcasters, service providers and production companies invest their time and money when developing new technologies and services. The study shows that continued consumer interest in next […]
Spaniards increasingly spend less on pay TV. In the first half of the year, pay-TV consumption fell by 14.4 per cent with an average monthly expenditure per family of €28, €2.4 lower than the same period last year, according to a report from the National Observatory of Telecommunications and Information Society (ONTSI). The total expenditure […]
Increasingly, the main reason people watch on-demand TV is to avoid falling behind with the linear TV schedules, which have been attracting record viewing figures in recent years, according to research published by Thinkbox and Decipher. The ‘Tellyport’ research questioned a sample of 3,000 people in the UK and employed a mixture of quantitative and […]
Online TV is a growing market, with the number of providers and variety in services strongly increasing, according to Goldmedia. Currently, there are 1,275 online TV channels in Germany, with about 151 million videos watched daily, mainly on free platforms (96 per cent). By 2015 Goldmedia predict that figure will nearly triple to almost 390 […]
Despite the difficulties faced to date, the timing is ripe for mobile video services to take off in certain Asia/Pacific markets due to the enhanced capability of the networks, increasing popularity and affordability of smartphones, and improvements in the mobile video business, according to a report from Pyramid Research Pyramid Research estimates there will be […]
VOD in the form of catch-up has been the growth curve of recent years. But the uphill struggle to make it pay was confirmed by speakers at Westminster Media Forum. David Cockram of Oliver & Ohlbaum said research showed UK public broadcasters will make only a combined £46 million (E53.3m) with a gross margin of […]
According to an NSR study, the global economic crisis did little to slow down the worldwide commercial satellite capacity leasing market. NSR estimates the industry picked up over $400 million in new leasing revenues in 2009, reaching $9.7 billion as of the end of the year. Further, results so far in 2010 indicate the sector […]
In Q3-2010, net subscriber addition in the global pay-TV market increased 2 per cent over Q2-2010 according to ABI Research’s pay-TV market data. “The global number of pay-TV subscribers reached 692 million in the third quarter of 2010,” reported ABI Research practice director Jason Blackwell. “Pay-TV subscriber growth is holding steady in a number of […]