Against the trend of US cable pay TV providers Verizon’s director of consumer video services Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, who is responsible for the company’s FIOS TV service, told The Tampa Tribune “[the cord cutting trend] is not stopping. It’s growing. The question is: Is it growing enough for us?” Most traditional TV services vendors would rather […]
The growing impact of social media on viewership and loyalty to the television platform is a core focus of Horowitz Associates’ latest consumer survey, Multiplatform Content and Services 2012 edition. Social media disproportionately impacts the viewing behaviours of younger consumers: One-quarter (24 per cent) of 18-34 year old adults and 30 per cent of 15-17 […]
Global Internet Geography research reveal that international Internet capacity growth fell to the lowest pace in five years, decreasing from 68 per cent in 2008 to 40 per cent in 2012. While the pace of growth is slowing, international Internet bandwidth continues to grow rapidly, more than doubling between 2010 and 2012, to 77 Tbps. […]
Farncombe, a provider of Digital TV technology consultancy, has released early results of its Security and Piracy Survey conducted in August 2012. Among a wealth of industry input, the survey found that the pay-TV industry’s main piracy concern over the next five years is shifting from control word sharing, which is viewed as the largest […]
Canada’s pay-TV market is expected to reach the saturation point this year, compelling the country’s cable, satellite and IPTV operators to seek new growth opportunities, according to IHS Screen Digest. After years of steady expansion, penetration of pay-TV subscriptions among Canadian television households is set to reach an all-time high of 92 per cent in […]
Pay TV subscriptions for the 95 operators across 25 countries will increase from a collective 96.2 million in 2007 to 140.9 million by 2017. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said: “Despite losing TV subscribers, UPC/Liberty Global will remain Europe’s largest pay TV operation by some distance. Germany’s Unitymedia will lead the way […]
The Italian TV advertising market was worth €2.27 billion at the end of H1 2012, down 9.5 per cent on the same period in 2011, according to figures published by Nielsen Media Research. The most significant trend is that leading broadcasters Mediaset and RAI have lost market share in favour of pay-TV group Sky Italia […]
A survey by Quixel Research has found that 88 per cent of current Apple customers in the US would be interested in buying an Apple television. Furthermore, among non-Apple owners, 80 per cent of owners of a flat-panel TV say they’d be extremely, very or somewhat interested in an Apple TV. “This potential Apple (interactive […]
TiVo Research and Analytics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TiVo, has entered into a software licensing agreement with Scripps Networks Interactive. As part of the licensing deal, Scripps Networks Interactive will have access to TRA’s patented Media TRAnalytics TV Auto Ratings platform enabling a better understanding of the correlation between exposure to ads and actual purchases […]
SES has revealed that satellite TV continued to increase its reach in Germany after the digital switch-over in April. In the first half of 2012, satellite TV gained 100,000 households to reach 17.6 million. Cable TV reception declined further, to 17 million households in the first half of 2012 (December 2011: 17.3 million). By contrast, […]