The Internet TV advertising industry is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 42 per cent from 2011 to 2016, increasing in value from $54 million to $311 million according to Frost & Sullivan’s latest report on the Australian Online Video Market, written in association with media and technology company, The Video […]
The UK Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has expressed irritation at the slow implementation of anti-piracy law the Digital Economy Act, claiming that the delay is costing retailers millions of pounds. It claims that though the Act passed in June 2010 yet the value of lost sales to illegal filesharing since this time has exceeding £250 […]
Following the sales boom of TV sets last year in Spain as a result of the analogue switch-off in April 2010 and the World Cup, the electronic industry is now reporting a huge decline in the sales of new TV devices of around 30 per cent in the first half of the year. Until June, […]
Only about 3.5 million Mexican households, or 13.2 per cent of the total, have a digital television, complicating the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, the Federal Telecommunications Commission of Mexico (Cofetel) has said. The shift from analogue to digital television started in 2004 and was supposed to be completed in 2015 but has now […]
IDATE’s 21st edition of its biannual “World TV Markets” says the worldwide market represents €301 billion in 2010, a progression of 7.8 per cent compared to 2009. “Despite advertising spending’s sensitivity to economic activity, the effects of the 2008-2009 financial and economic crisis had less of an effect on the TV market than it did […]
Research by Sycamore Research & Marketing reveals that 72 per cent of Australian consumers say they would stop illegal downloading activities if they received an educational notice from their ISP. The study also revealed that consumers perceive the ISPs as actively encouraging them to share and download illegal content. The national survey asked respondents, aged […]
Despite a decline in video subscribers, the second quarter proved to be a strong period for the US pay-TV business, with revenue-generating units (RGU) for cable rising due to the expanding broadband and telephony segments, according to IHS Screen Digest. The researcher, which reported yesterday European cable’s resilience to cord cutting, said the number of […]
Android smartphone users will download more apps than Apple iPhone owners this year, as sales of devices using the Google operating system surge ahead, according to a report from telecoms analyst Ovum Applications, which range from games to alarm clocks and weather information, will jump from a total 7.4 billion downloaded in 2010 to 18 […]
Despite the rising US trend of cord cutting, the European cable market continued to expand in 2010, with revenue throughout the EU rising by nearly 8 per cent for the year on the strength of double-digit growth in digital television, broadband and telephony subscribers, according to the IHS Screen Digest. Total European Union cable revenue […]
Research findings issued on the eve of the IBC 2011 conference by Parks Associates reveal that consumers in Western Europe value multi-device access to recorded TV programmes over other new video services, including access to live TV. Given a choice of new TV features, including 3DTV, online video access, and multi-screen services, 47 per cent […]