Australia is the biggest market for global iPlayer to date and is providing some unique consumer insight, according to Matthew Littleford, General Manager for BBC Worldwide’s global BBC iPlayer. Launched in Australia in September 2011 as part of a pilot, the global BBC iPlayer is available on iPad, iPod and iPhone in 16 markets in […]
Allot Communications’ latest MobileTrends Report shows that video streaming continued to show significant growth with a 88 per cent increase, and remains the single largest application taking up bandwidth, accounting for 42 per cent of mobile bandwidth. Although having limited impact on the total bandwidth, VoIP and Instant Messaging (VoIP & IM) have gained additional […]
A report on Shanghai Media Group IPTV subsidiary BesTV New Media by Minsheng Securities has predicted BesTV IPTV subscriber growth of more than 60 per cent in 2012, to between 16 and 18 million subscribers. The number of BesTV IPTV subscribers grew to 10 million in 2011, accounting for a market share of more than […]
Market research specialists GfK says that the Japanese market for technical consumer goods (including telco-based products as well as eco-friendly TVs, fridges and air-conditioners) have slumped to their lowest volumes since 2008. Quarterly sales were ranging from Yen 2.25 trillion (Q1/08) to a high point of Yen 2.73 trillion (Q4/2010) but the latest four quarters […]
Netflix customer satisfaction plunged in the fourth quarter, a reflection of consumer anger over rising prices and changes to its subscription plans, according to a survey. Satisfaction with Netflix slid 14 per cent to 74 from a year earlier on a scale of 0 to 100, according to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index. That was […]
The number of Spanish homes with pay TV in the first half of 2011 reached 21.9 per cent of all households, according to the latest report from the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT). Two out of ten households already have pay-TV services, although there are big variances depending on the size of municipalities. Higher penetration rates […]
Even though Australian consumers are able to watch TV on an increasing variety of devices, television viewing has increased on conventional screens as well as on mobile devices and computers, according to the first comprehensive national multi-screen report compiled by audience measurement companies OzTAM, Nielsen and Regional TAM. Traditional television viewing grew by four per […]
Research from YouGov’s Media Consulting team reveals that though uptake and usage of social media services remains very high, the restless British public are now demanding more from these kinds of services. Two in five (41 per cent) of the UK online population claim to be getting bored of social media. Almost two thirds (65 […]
The window for pay-TV operators to control the video-on-demand movie rental market is still open, but may not stay so for much longer, suggests market research company The NPD Group. According to NPD, current video-on-demand (VOD) market for paid movie rentals is ruled by pay-TV services, with revenues that reached $1.3 billion in 2011. The […]
India’s DTH satellite subscribers now exceed 44 million homes, says Hong Kong-based Media Partners Asia (MPA). The number of homes with satellite TV installed has expanded from 25 million at the end of 2010, to Nov 2011’s position of 44.4 million. However, the numbers also show up some challenges for the over-supplied industry. The industry […]