In a month when video downloads from YouTube have set off riots across the world, Tim Johnson, Consultant Analyst of broadband communications service information provider Point Topic, is proposing a new set of metrics to reveal the global extent and influence of IPTV. Speaking at a key meeting of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in […]
The overwhelming majority of UK companies are very positive about improvements that have been made to UK digital networks in recent years and are confident that the trend will continue. According to the CBI/KPMG infrastructure survey 2012, Better connected, better business, 82 per cent of companies feel that networks are in a better state than […]
Live sports content is driving consumer mobile video viewing according to research from QuickPlay Media. A survey of UK mobile subscribers between the ages of 18-44, revealed more than half (52 per cent) of mobile video users watched at least one Olympic event on either a smartphone or tablet. Furthermore, of those who have watched […]
According to market research company The NPD Group, although renting movies through Internet video on demand (iVoD) is making inroads with a small but growing group of consumers, cable companies are consumers’ first choice when they order on-demand movies on a per-use basis. Led by Comcast in the first half of 2012, 48 per cent […]
Apple has been voted the coolest brand in the UK. It beat Aston Martin, which has taken the top spot in six of the previous seven annual CoolBrands surveys. Online and technology brands performed well, with YouTube pushing Aston Martin into third place. Twitter came fourth, followed by Google and the BBC’s iPlayer. The results […]
The Spanish pay TV market continues to be in free fall with a loss of over 100,000 subscribers, according to the latest report by the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT). Prisa TV, owner of digital DTH platform Canal Plus, is the market leader with 1,731,140 subscribers (down 2.1 per cent) followed by cable company ONO, with 906,475 (down […]
The global pay-TV market continues to grow despite a decline in the US pay-TV market in 2012. ABI Research forecasts that global pay TV subscribers will reach 858.1 million at the end of 2012, a 5 per cent year-on-year increment from 2011. The key growth will be driven by the Asian-Pacific market which is expected […]
Proponents of over-the-top (OTT) video delivery view streaming Internet providers such as Netflix as the future of television, offering entertainment at a fraction of the cost of traditional pay-TV operators while also providing the potential for superior breadth in programming, ubiquity in platforms and technological advancement. However, a detailed analysis from IHS Screen Digest reveals […]
Three quarters of people are picking online content via word of mouth or suggestions from Twitter and Facebook, according to a report by video search specialists blinkx. The company’s Matt Scheybeler said: ‘We use search as a starting point less often and instead we’ve become comfortable scanning and processing long streams of information – Facebook […]
Service delivery platforms (SDPs) are evolving to provide network operators with a strong foundation for building successful digital services ecosystems that include participation of a wide range of third-party partners, but new technology competitors pose serious challenges to SDP vendors, according to the latest report from Heavy Reading Service Provider IT Insider, a paid research […]