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TV advertising worries re-surface

There are signs that the resurgence of commercial TV’s advertising may be much weaker than anticipated. A report from analysts at investment bank Morgan Stanley says that while the media sector continues to outperform, and the bank continues to rate Media as ‘attractive’, European advertising is looking most likely to be squeezed. “Southern Europe, particularly […]

April 14, 2011By Chris Forrester

Online ads up 15% in 2010

Internet advertising revenue continues to rise, according to a report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Advertising revenue for the full year reached a record high of $26 billion, a 15 per cent increase over 2009. Revenue for the fourth quarter increased 16 per cent to $7.45 billion from the same period last year […]

April 14, 2011

IPTV will open doors for hospitality

Results from the IMS Research study IPTV: A Global Market Analysis – 2011 Edition, indicate that the worldwide Hospitality market for IPTV set-top boxes will reach a revenue milestone of three quarters of a billion US dollars in 2015, growing at a CAGR of 16 per cent. The market is forecast to encounter double digit […]

April 11, 2011

Strong operator support for home gateways

Market research firm Infonetics Research conducted a survey of incumbent and competitive telecom operators in North America, EMEA, and CALA who use residential gateways and CPE to offer broadband and multi-play services. “There is consistency among our survey findings from last year and this year: Service providers want to deploy residential gateways that are powerful […]

April 11, 2011

Mobile DTV to reach 61% of US in 12 months

Anne Schelle, executive director of the Open Mobile Video Coalition, a coalition of America’s broadcasters, has offered a prediction of the prospects for mobile digital television. “Between those stations already on-air and those who are coming soon, we project that mobile DTV will reach more than 71 million households…in the next 12 months.” That ‘s […]

April 8, 2011

Broadband CPE market continues shift to FTTH

Market research firm Infonetics Research has released a fourth quarter  market forecast report which tracks DSL, cable broadband, FTTH, and voice customer-premise equipment; residential gateways; and broadband subscribers. The broadband CPE market is much more dynamic now, with FTTH CPE coming on strong in many regions of the world, particularly Japan, China, and North America, […]

April 8, 2011

Premium VOD pricing undermines demand

Premium VOD services which offer restrictive rental windows are priced too high to support significant demand, according to a report from The Diffusion Group (TDG). The report names the new ‘Home Premiere’ VOD service as an example. The premium service, which joins pay-TV operators in the US and Hollywood studios such as Warner Bros, Universal […]

April 6, 2011

UK digital TV take-up reaches 92.5%

Take-up of digital television in UK households is at 92.5 per cent, up by 1.1 percentage points year on year, according to Ofcom’s consumer survey results for the fourth quarter of 2010. Ofcom found that 75.8 per cent of all secondary TV sets had been converted to digital by the end of December 2010, up […]

April 6, 2011

Spain pay-TV: Subs up, revenues down

Spain’s pay television sector has more and more subscribers who pay less and less. Year on year in 2o10 pay-TV gained 218,830 subscribers, up 5.36 per cent, to 4,296,434 according to the latest report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Pay DTT, with a 127 per cent growth from 153,151 subscribers in 2009 to […]

April 4, 2011From David Del Valle in Madrid

OTT drives media server market; STB demand up

Market researcher Infonetics Research has released its fourth quarter 2010 ‘Cable, Satellite, IPTV, and OTT STBss and Subscribers’ market share and forecast report. “In the fourth quarter of 2010, we witnessed the dramatic growth of over-the-top services, as service providers and equipment vendors hit the ‘sweet spot’ for pricing. However, these services continue to complement […]

April 4, 2011