The European Audiovisual Observatory has published a report on the TV news market in Europe (covering 38 countries). The report, carried out as part of the work commissioned by the DG Communication of the European Commission, sources data from the Observatory’s MAVISE TV database as well as from a range of recent studies by national organisations such […]
The BBC has published a report entitled ‘The economic return to the UK of the BBC’s global footprint’. The research report was carried out by Terrington and Company and Research Now to assess the indirect economic return to the UK from the BBC’s international operations, BBC World Service, BBC Worldwide, BBC Global News Ltd, by […]
Intelligent broadband network solutions provider Sandvine has released its Internet traffic trends report – Global Internet Phenomena Report 2H2013 – based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s 250-plus service provider customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific. “For the first time ever, peer-to-peer file-sharing has
IHS research on YouTube’s professionally produced channels shows that French and German YouTube Channels are more popular than English ones. French and German Original Channels have an average of 14 million views per channel, compared with the UK’s 11 million. There were fewer non-English language channels at launch, but they have been more than pulling […]
The latest Ericsson Mobility Report reveals that mobile subscriptions are expected to reach 9.3 billion by 2019, and more than 60 per cent of these – 5.6 billion – will be for smartphones. To support the smartphone user experience, WCDMA/HSPA networks are predicted to cover 90 per cent of the world’s population by 2019. Moreover, […]
Asia-Pacific, notably, China, is expected to lead 4K (or Ultra HD) TV unit shipments according to ABI Research’s First Screen Video Devices and Cloud Video and Video Hardware Research Services. However, the North American market is anticipated to be the first region to eclipse 5 per cent (in 2017) and 10 per cent (by end […]
Findings from market research firm Infonetics Research’s 2nd edition Pay TV Subscriber Database, which tracks the cable video, satellite video and telco IPTV subscribers of over 140 service providers around the world, suggest that cable TV and IPTV subscriptions in North America and EMEA continue to move in opposite directions. According to Jeff Heynen, principal […]
A PwC global innovation study has found that the most innovative 20 per cent of Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) companies surveyed expect a growth rate of nearly 90 per cent over the next five years, more than twice the TMT average (37.5 per cent) and over four times higher than the least innovative TMT […]
With access to OTT subscription based video on-demand (SVoD) services more easily and readily available due to the integration of smart TVs as the main TV in many consumers’ homes, OTT SVoD services are gaining in popularity. Offering a cheaper media source with a competitive breadth of video content, subscriptions are increasing as these services […]
Following a dismal third quarter, the outlook for global TV shipments appears even dimmer in 2013, with shipments now forecast to fall by 5 per cent, marking the second consecutive year of decline. Global shipments of TVs are set to slide to 226.7 million units in 2013, down from 238.2 million in the previous year, […]