Competition between TV networks to air top movie content on television is so intense that some stations are willing to pay eight-figure fees, in some cases committing to healthy per-box-office-dollar payment formulas even before the movies formally open on the big screen, according to an IHS Screen Digest US. Cable Network Intelligence report. Nearly 10,000 […]
May 2012 marked the first month that Nielsen has publicly reported streaming measurement on thousands of YouTube partners. The top five YouTube Partner channels, led by Vevo, Warner Music Group, Maker, Fullscreen and Machinima, combined for nearly 1.5 billion total streams. To put this into context, YouTube continues to be the top online video destination […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts vendor from its latest Home Networking Devices market share and forecast report. “Tablets, connected TVs, digital media players, and a growing list of other devices are driving sales of home networking devices, and this is nowhere more apparent than in North America, which captured 37 per cent of […]
As paid video content becomes more available via different distribution channels, tablet and wireless phone-viewing usage has increased, while PC/Mac-viewing usage has decreased from 2011, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Residential Pay-to-View Study. The study, now in its second year, provides insights concerning attitudes, viewing preferences, behaviour patterns, awareness and experiences […]
The US Digital Television (DTV) market is continuing on a growth trajectory despite continued talk of cord cutting, according to research from Strategy Analytics. Digital subscriptions will increase from 114 million in 2011 to 129 million in 2016, implying a five-year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 2.36 per cent. Cord cutting – consumers dropping […]
Chinese consumers are increasingly embracing the concept of bundled services – including fixed voice, broadband, television and mobile voice – which will lead to significant growth in Double, Triple, and Quad Play subscribers by 2016 according to research from Strategy Analytics. The report, “MultiPlay Forecast 1H’12” shows the growth of MultiPlay subscribers in China, increasing […]
Worldwide TV shipments fell almost 8 per cent Y/Y in Q1’12, the steepest rate of decline since Q2’09. Total TV shipments for the quarter were 51 million units, according to the latest release from NPD DisplaySearch. The biggest contributor to this decline was a slowdown in shipments of LCD TVs, which fell year-on-year for the […]
Low cost and viewing flexibility give Netflix an advantage over pay-TV VoD and premium broadcast TV, according to a study from Parks Associates. ‘Choosing Content: Viewing Video’ found Netflix Watch Instantly rates higher in customer satisfaction than premium broadcast TV because of these factors. Netflix also topped pay-TV VoD in terms of cost. “Consumers can […]
A report from Juniper Research has valued the ‘Smart Home’ market at $60 billion by 2017, rising from $25 billion this year – driven by strong growth within the smart home entertainment segment, along with contributions from other segments including smart monitoring & control and smart health. The report notes that there are many definitions […]
Data from TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Pay-TV Research Service show that IPTV penetration of telcos’ worldwide broadband subscribers reached 15 per cent in Q1 2012, equivalent to 67 million subscribers and 8 per cent of the world’s 812 million pay-TV subscribers. However, widely differing IPTV and pay-TV penetration rates by region point to radically different IPTV growth […]