According to broadband analyst firm Point Topic, global IPTV subscriptions closed in on 60 million at the end of 2011, with the last yearly quarter witnessing the biggest three-month increase in subscribers yet. “The year end is often the strong quarter but in combination with the global recovery in consumer spending and the will and […]
The global TV games console market will drop by 19 per cent in 2012, according to research from the Strategy Analytics. The report projects a decline in global Xbox 360 sales 13.8 million units in 2012; and PS3 sales will also fall, to 13 million units. Nintendo is fully focused on preparing for the upcoming […]
Findings from the US’s Digital Entertainment Group’s First Quarter 2012 Home Entertainment Report indicate a continued stabilisation of the industry, underscored by promising gains in Blu-ray Disc, with steady increases in electronic sell-through (EST) and VoD spending, and modest growth in sell-through. Overall consumer spending was up 2.5 per cent compared to the first quarter […]
Most people in Britain with a connected TV actually lead a very disconnected TV existence, reveals newly released insight from Kantar Media’s futurePROOF study of consumer take up and usage of digital devices and media. As a platform, connected TV is now well established, but Kantar Media’s research highlights that fewer than one in five […]
A YouGov survey of the nation’s TV habits reveals that only one third (37 per cent) of Britons planning to buy a Smart TV said that connecting to the Internet through it – the ‘smart’ part of a Smart TV – was a factor in buying one. The most common reason for intending to buy […]
At least 21 per cent of US households (approximately 27 million) have either an Internet-ready TV, game console, standalone Blu-ray player, and/or smart set-top box connected to their home network, according to findings in the study – Connected Home Devices Market Data – from ABI Research. Of these four device categories, the game console is […]
Brazil is proving to be one of the fastest-growing pay-TV markets anywhere. For example, a Vivendi-backed newcomer, GVT, which transmits a hybrid service on DTH and via IPTV, and which only launched in October last year, has now added 95,000 subs since Jan 1st, and is adding subscribers at a rate of 45,000 a month. […]
The global Connected flat-panel TV (FPTV) market will increase to 91 million units in 2012, according to the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service report – Global Flat-panel TV and Connected TV Forecast 2012. By the end of 2011, nearly 100 million households worldwide owned at least one Connected FPTV, 6 per cent of global […]
A survey by UK specialist lawyers Wiggin reports that 70 per cent of respondents said that they watch TV while browsing the Internet or using another device. 47 per cent said they were using social media sites while viewing linear TV and 52 per cent used the Internet to find out more about the show […]
The Spanish TV advertising market continues in free fall. In the first quarter of the year, TV ad revenues fell by 17.7 per cent to €485.2 million with advert prices dropping to levels similar to those in 2003-2004. Regional TV stations took the worst part of the TV ad revenues fall with a drop of […]