TV viewers who use a gadget to surf the web or chat on Facebook while watching TV are migrating away from the laptop and toward the tablet as the preferred personal device, according to research from the Strategy Analytics Digital Home Observatory. The report – Multi-Screen User Behaviors in the Home – also found that, […]
In September 2011, the UK Internet population made over 785 million visits to online video websites – an increase of 36 per cent year-on-year, according to analysis from competitive intelligence firm Experian Hitwise. According to Experian’s report – Online Video: Bringing Social Media to Life – the majority of growth in this space has been […]
The latest findings from the comScore Video Metrix service indicate that 182 million US Internet users watched online video content in September for an average of 19.5 hours per viewer. The total US Internet audience engaged in 39.8 billion video views. Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, were once again ranked as […]
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud optimisation services, has released its 4th Quarter, 2010 State of the Internet report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Internet Platform, the report provides insight into key global Internet statistics such as the world’s fastest and slowest regions for connection speed, the most frequent origins of attack traffic, […]
Global online advertising revenues will reach $106.22 billion in 2016, almost double the $58.16 billion recorded in 2010, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. According to the report – The Online Advertising Forecasts report – which covers 40 countries, the US will remain the dominant territory for online advertising revenues. However, its […]
A survey carried out by Galaxy Research for networking hardware vendor Netgear has found that Australians own a lot of Internet-enabled devices that they don’t bother to put online. The report shows that there are almost 70 million Internet-enabled devices in Australian homes, but nearly 19 million aren’t connected. Game consoles are amongst the most […]
Companies based in the US dominated the list of the world’s Top 50 audiovisual firms in 2010, with US-based Comcast Corp. leading the market with more than $35.6 billion in revenue, according to a new IHS Screen Digest Television Insight Report. “Illustrating the importance of America to the global audiovisual market, the Top 5 companies […]
Germany’s pay-television providers will expand their share of the country’s TV market by one-third in the next two years as they offer more attractive programming and technology says Henning Roeper, head of Solon Management Consulting, speaking at the Medientage conference in Munich. HD and 3D images, exclusive content, live sports and easier-to-use devices will help […]
Smartclip has released findings from its annual industry research into the uptake of digital video advertising. The research shows that marketers are waking up to the opportunities presented by digital video advertising and adopting a multi-screen approach. The findings demonstrate how digital video and multiplatform advertising are now playing a substantial role in marketing and […]
Hybrid STBs are rapidly being deployed by pay-TV operators worldwide to help them deliver advanced services and manage bandwidth scarcity in broadcast networks, reports ABI. In 2010, only 40 per cent of STBs worldwide featured hybrid capabilities, with many not yet enabled by software as operators were not ready to deploy IP video services. Hybrid […]