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OTT will represent 17% of viewing in 2016

In 2016, OTT video services on connected TV will represent 17 per cent of the total OTT market and 1 per cent of the global fixed video services market says French researcher IDATE. “In 2016, the VoD market for the TV will be dominated by Over-The-Top (OTT) offers. In Europe, we estimate the global market […]

March 26, 2012

Smartphones accessing news up 74%

comScore, a specialist in measuring the digital world, has released an overview of mobile news access across the five leading European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) using the comScore MobiLens service. The study showed that nearly 37 per cent of smartphone users in EU5 reported accessing news sites via an app or […]

March 26, 2012

Forecast: US DTO to outrank DVD in 2012

Americans will pay to consume more movies online in 2012 than they will on physical video formats, marking the first year that legal, Internet-delivered movies will outstrip those of DVDs and Blu-ray discs combined. The legal, paid consumption of movies online in the US will reach 3.4 billion views or transactions in 2012, approximately 1.0 […]

March 23, 2012

US pay TV subs are cord-shaving

The evidence is mounting that even though cable TV customers are not cutting the cord en masse, they are cutting back. Research from Altman Vilandrie & Co, suggests that about 20 per cent of consumers now shave pay TV services, spending progressively less on their packages as more of what they want to watch becomes […]

March 23, 2012

Research: Home nets in 75% of US households

According to a report from TDG, eight in ten US broadband households now use a home network, meaning they are able to access a growing variety of net-based video and applications on a growing number of devices. Nearly 40 per cent of home network routers are now located in the primary living room, more than […]

March 23, 2012

Rising box office receipts threatened by online piracy

Findings from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) show that global box office receipts for all films released around the world reached $32.6 billion, an increase of 3 per cent over 2010, stemming from ongoing growth of box office in international markets. Each international region experienced box office growth in 2011. Chinese box office […]

March 23, 2012By Colin Mann

UK online TV revenues to quadruple by 2020

The UK television industry expects both pay and advertising revenues from online video services to quadruple by 2020, according to new research findings from media management company Red Bee Media. The research, which surveyed executives from across the UK television industry on their predictions for business models and revenue streams in 2020, found that more […]

March 22, 2012By Colin Mann

2011 broadband growth fastest in 5 years

Broadband and IPTV growth spiked to a high in 2011 with rates higher than at any time in the last five years, according to year-end figures published by the Broadband Forum. Overall, broadband growth is estimated at 65,493,596 lines, bringing the global total to 597,322,636, a quarterly increase of 2.6 per cent – and an […]

March 21, 2012From Colin Mann at IP&TV World Forum

Multi-channel providers add 380,000 subs in 2011

Leichtman Research Group has found that the fourteen largest multi-channel video providers in the US – representing about 94 per cent of the market – acquired over 380,000 net additional video subscribers in 2011. Annual net multi-channel video additions in 2011 were about 175,000 fewer than in 2010. Combined, these top multi-channel video providers account […]

March 21, 2012

100m hybrid households by 2016

TV programmes have come to the Internet, and the Internet has gone to mobile devices. Now the Internet is coming back to TV, and software engineers and smart TV producers are finding ways to create new “hybrid” services that bring it all together. In-Stat research forecasts that 100 million households will actively use a hybrid […]

March 20, 2012