Despite the downturn in the UK economy, Brits are more concerned about paying for their TV subscriptions and going to the pub than saving for a pension, according to financial adviser company Skipton Financial Services. The firm’s ‘Priority Report’ quizzed adults on their attitudes and behaviour towards spending and saving in the current economic climate […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]