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1 in 4 tablet owners pay for content

comScore has released insights on the US tablet market from comScore TabLens, its forthcoming monthly syndicated service providing insights into tablet ownership and usage. The report found that tablets have quickly reached a critical mass in the US with 1 in every 4 smartphone owners using tablets during the three-month average period ending April 2012. […]

June 11, 2012

Tablet adult video users to triple by 2015

The growth in the tablet user base will cause the number of users of mobile adult video content on tablets to triple by 2015, a report from Juniper Research finds. This trend is repeated across all forms of mobile adult content on tablets with the number mobile adult subscribers and mobile adult videochat users also […]

June 11, 2012

US pay-TV revenues to peak next year

Pay TV revenues in the US will peak in 2013, before gradually falling by $2.6 billion to reach $88.2 billion in 2017, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The report concludes that TV ARPU is being forced down as cable operators and telcos convert their subscribers to dual-play or triple-play bundles, though blended […]

June 7, 2012

3 in 4 mobile notice mobile ads

Three in four Mobile Users (74 per cent) fully pay attention to mobile ads while surfing the web, according to a survey conducted by Prosper Mobile Insights. Further, the majority (59.5 per cent) of smartphone and tablet users say they regularly or occasionally pay full attention to ads they see while visiting social media sites […]

June 7, 2012

Smart TV needs to get smarter

Many Smart TV owners are frustrated because of slow user interfaces and complex registration procedures, according to the latest research published by the Strategy Analytics Digital Home Observatory (DHO) service. The report, “Slow Connected TV Interfaces Inhibit App Store Exploration,” finds that users feel the performance of smart or connected TVs is much slower than […]

June 6, 2012

TV remains dominant in consumer reach

Research released by TVB, the not-for-profit trade association of America’s commercial broadcast television industry, indicates that television continues to reach more consumers on average than any other major medium, across all major demographic groups. The report – The 2012 Media Comparisons Study – is the latest version of a biennial update to the proprietary report. […]

June 6, 2012

Ericsson: 85% of globe covered by high-speed mobile by 2017

For many people around the world, the mobile phone will be the only means of accessing the Internet. According to Ericsson’s second Traffic and Market Report – On the Pulse of the Networked Society, 85 per cent of the world’s population will have Internet coverage via 3G by 2017 and there will be close to […]

June 6, 2012

Netflix tops Apple in US online movies

Recent findings from analytics provider IHS suggest that riding a tidal wave of growth for subscription video on demand (SVoD) has enabled Netflix in 2011 to surge past Apple to become the largest US online movie service in revenue terms. The IHS Screen Digest Broadband Media Market Insight Report suggests that Netflix’s share of US […]

June 4, 2012

Australia: 1 in 10 giving up piracy

Research findings released by the Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (IPAF) – a broad membership of film and television organisations in Australia committed to educating people about the value of screen content – indicate that 10 per cent of Australians are giving up their TV and movie copyright infringements. Ten per cent of respondents indicated that […]

June 4, 2012By Colin Mann

Physical media spend declines in US households

Research from IHS Screen Digest suggests that American viewing tastes are shifting away from discs and toward online video, with the information and analytics provider reporting that US households in 2011 decreased their spending on physical media purchases and rentals at a double-digit rate. Average spending on physical video media per US video household owning […]

June 4, 2012