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Liberty Global extends European pay-TV dominance

Pay-TV subscriptions for the 102 operators across 26 countries covered in a new report from Digital TV Research will increase from a collective 105.8 million in 2008 to 131.9 million in 2012 and onto 147.1 million by 2018. The European Pay TV Operator Forecasts report estimates that these operators represented 85 per cent of European […]

November 13, 2013

DTH platforms adapt to pass $100bn revenues

A Euroconsult report on DTH platforms shows more than 150 platforms with TV revenues primarily derived from direct-to-home satellite broadcasting are now offering services. The 202 million DTH subscribers in over 100 countries (early in 2013) will result in over $100 billion in revenues this year. Although the report highlights large national specificities, three market […]

November 13, 2013

Almost 300 news channels in Europe

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 […]

November 13, 2013

BBC World: ‘We make more than money’

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 […]

November 12, 2013

Netflix,YouTube are 50% of American network data

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

November 11, 2013

English YouTube channels lose out to Euro peers

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 […]

November 11, 2013

Ericsson: Global smartphone subs to reach 5.6bn by 2019

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, […]

November 11, 2013

4K TVs in 10% N American homes by 2018

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 […]

November 8, 2013

IPTV, cable TV subs on opposite trajectories

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 […]

November 8, 2013

TMT companies expect 90% growth rate over 5 years

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 […]

November 8, 2013