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 […]
New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 27 per cent of adults in the US watch video on devices other than a TV set daily, and 53 per cent on a weekly basis. This is an increase from 14 per cent daily, and 37 per cent weekly two years ago. These non-TV […]
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 […]
Objective data and independent empirical research will better inform the debate surrounding copyright policy in the digital age, according to US research body the National Research Council. The Council notes that the roll-out of the World Wide Web and expanded use of digital technologies in the mid-1990s marked the beginning of a technological revolution that […]
Forty-seven per cent of home entertainment devices (Internet-capable TVs, Blu-ray Disc Players, video game consoles, and streaming media devices) are currently connected and being used for their online capabilities. But the degree to which these devices are used online varies significantly, according to global information company The NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence Connected Home report. Internet-capable […]
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 […]
Over half of UK and US consumers would like to have the option to sell-on the digital content they have purchased, and 14 per cent and 15 per cent respectively believe it’s legal to do so, according to the Digital Generation Report, commissioned by WorldPay. The Digital Generation report surveyed over 3,000 consumers who have […]