Spain’s pay television sector has more and more subscribers who pay less and less. Year on year in 2o10 pay-TV gained 218,830 subscribers, up 5.36 per cent, to 4,296,434 according to the latest report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Pay DTT, with a 127 per cent growth from 153,151 subscribers in 2009 to […]
Market researcher Infonetics Research has released its fourth quarter 2010 ‘Cable, Satellite, IPTV, and OTT STBss and Subscribers’ market share and forecast report. “In the fourth quarter of 2010, we witnessed the dramatic growth of over-the-top services, as service providers and equipment vendors hit the ‘sweet spot’ for pricing. However, these services continue to complement […]
The final match for the World Cup cricket tournament in Mumbai between India and Sri Lanka was seen by a record 67.6 million TV viewers in India according to ratings agency aMap. The finals were telecast on ESPN Star Sports network’s Star Cricket and Star Sports channels alongwith terrestrial statecaster Doordarshan though the aMap ratings […]
As at the end of 2010, 42 per cent of Western European homes subscribed to a multichannel pay-TV service, according to the e-Media Institute, with the subs base up 11 per cent to 73 million since 2008. In the same period, the analogue TV penetration fell from 40 per cent to 18 per cent; 31 […]
The new Nielsen State of the Media Mobile Usage Trends survey revealed a big uplift in US mobile video in the second half of 2010. US mobile subscribers watching video on their rose 40 per cent year-on-year. In Q4 2010 25 million people watched an average of four hours and 20 minutes of mobile video […]
Most Americans, Brits and Canadians are unlikely to purchase a 3D television any time soon, according to a recent Vision Critical poll. The online survey of representative national samples shows that a negligible number of respondents in each country currently own 3D TVs. Five per cent of Americans, two per cent of Brits and only […]
Marketers are increasingly spending time, money and creativity to reach their audiences in non-traditional ways. A 24/7 Wall St./Harris Poll on Social Media and Television has found that many Americans are participating in this type of interactions. Among online US adults, two in five say they have gone online or utilised social media to comment, […]
Findings from a study by custom research company TNS into today’s mobile consumer highlight that as ‘static’ functionality such as SMS and still imaging become commoditised, growth will be driven through further demand for social functionality and new demands for video calling, streaming and sharing services. In particular, the TNS Mobile Life 2011 study notes […]
In Q4 2010, 36.8 million broadband Consumer Premises Equipment units shipped, a 1.2 per cent increase from the previous quarter and a 0.8 per cent increase from the same quarter last year. Total revenues were $1.6 billion, remaining flat from the previous quarter and a 0.3 per cent increase from the same quarter last year, […]
Competition in the Spanish pay-TV market is intensifying with the launch on Tuesday of a new pay-TV platform, Starmax HD, the first pay-as-you-go DTH service in the country. The new platform, distributed via satellite Hispasat 1E, will compete head-to-head with Digital Plus, with 1.8 million subscribers; pay-TV cable companies such as ONO, with 953,000 clients; […]