Insights taken from the Experian Hitwise online competitive intelligence tool reveal that visits to online video sites now account for five per cent of all online usage compared to four per cent in 2011. UK Internet users are now making over a billion visits a month to video sites, an increase of 16 per cent […]
The combined Arris/Motorola gained market share on rival Cisco in the final quarter of 2012. Synergy Research Group said video infrastructure revenues reached $8.8 billion in the quarter, 3 per cent up over the final quarter of 2011 and also 3 per cent up on the previous quarter. However, the final quarter of the year […]
Pay TV revenues in Asia Pacific will be $12 billion higher in 2018 ($43.9 billion total) than in 2012, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. In fact, the Digital TV Asia Pacific report estimates that pay TV revenues (subscriptions and on-demand) will grow by $2.1 billion in 2013 to $33.9 billion. Simon […]
Freeview has reported an increase in the number of households using the service on main-set televisions to over 11 million – its highest figure ever. The number of homes with Freeview on a main or second TV set is almost 20 million (76 per cent of UK television homes). Today also marks a change to […]
BBC News says tablet owners watch more TV news with 43 per cent of users saying they consume more TV than they did five years ago, reports a new study from the BBC. BBC World News and BBC.com/news released the results of the largest international study yet on the consumption of news in the digital […]
Worldwide IPTV subscriptions are forecast to top 100 million in 2013 and hit 181 million in 2017, according to Pyramid Research. The latest Research in Focus: IPTV, said that IPTV penetration is expected to increase across all regions and, as a share of global pay TV subscriptions, is expected to increase from 9.3 per cent […]
Morgan Stanley have issued a report on Naspers, the ultimate holding company of the Multichoice/DStv pay-TV business, and says that Southern Africa is doing well for the business. Naspers is also backing the ‘GOtv’ brand being used by digital terrestrial TV broadcasting in 7 sub-Saharan countries (Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Namibia, Ghana and Malawi). Morgan […]
According to SocialGuide, 32 million unique people in the US Tweeted about TV in 2012. What does it all really mean for the TV industry? Should networks and advertisers be paying attention? Early research on the subject from Nielsen and SocialGuide says yes. By analysing Tweets about live TV, the study confirmed a relationship between […]
The American population’s voracious appetite for digitised information and entertainment continues unabated, creating a groundswell of consumers who move seamlessly between smartphones, tablets and laptops to consume digital content, often using multiple devices at the same time. The findings come in Deloitte’s seventh edition of the State of the Media Democracy survey, which reveals a […]
Although consumers have been slow to warm to ‘TV Everywhere’ services, a new white paper from consumer technology and media behaviours TDG suggests that adding live linear access to the mix would drive widespread use of the service, enhance operator value, and even generate new incremental revenue. The white paper, Bringing Multiscreen Live Linear Programming […]