Nielsen’s latest State of the Media: TV Usage Trends report revealed that television viewing in the US remains at a high, yet the emergence of the DVR as a widely distributed device has changed consumption habits in many homes. In the second quarter of 2010, the average person clocked more than 143 hours of television […]
The results from the annual Christmas shopping survey for Twenga, the shopping search engine, show that 52 per cent of Brits don’t want to receive a 3D TV for Christmas. Although the Germans and the Dutch agree with the Brits, the French (57 per cent), the Italian (69 per cent) and the Spanish (61 per […]
For the second quarter in a row, North American digital pay TV operators added fewer subscribers than in the preceding period, according to figures from Strategy Analytics. Comcast added only 219,000 new digital subs in the third quarter, a sharp decrease from Q2 adds of 394,000. Satellite operator Dish saw its second consecutive quarter of […]
According to SNL Kagan’s analysis the US multichannel segment fell by 119,000 customers in the third quarter of 2010, compared to a 346,000 gain reported in third-quarter 2009. US cable operators lost 741,000 basic video customers in third-quarter 2010, marking the single largest quarterly dip for cable since Kagan began compiling data for the segment […]
Paid-for television content – whether through cable, satellite or the Internet – is preferred over free-to-air services – even in markets where free programming is more readily available, according to global research from Motorola Mobility. Motorola Mobility’s Global 2010 Media Engagement Barometer – an independent global study of video-consumption habits among 7,500 consumers in 13 […]
A UK research study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cisco, investigating consumer viewing habits and expectations of TV and Internet-delivered TV reveals that consumers are dictating where broadcasters, service providers and production companies invest their time and money when developing new technologies and services. The study shows that continued consumer interest in next […]
Weekly incidence of going online or using a handheld device to watch TV content rose from 34 per cent in 2009 to 39 per cent among broadband users in the US, according to a Horowitz Associates’ study. The study revealed that a full quarter (25 per cent) of broadband users watch TV content online or […]
Spaniards increasingly spend less on pay TV. In the first half of the year, pay-TV consumption fell by 14.4 per cent with an average monthly expenditure per family of €28, €2.4 lower than the same period last year, according to a report from the National Observatory of Telecommunications and Information Society (ONTSI). The total expenditure […]
Increasingly, the main reason people watch on-demand TV is to avoid falling behind with the linear TV schedules, which have been attracting record viewing figures in recent years, according to research published by Thinkbox and Decipher. The ‘Tellyport’ research questioned a sample of 3,000 people in the UK and employed a mixture of quantitative and […]
A study released by Nielsen has highlighted the 21st century TV-viewing habits of consumers who are watching shows or movies from the Internet on their TV sets. Specifically, it reveals that 84 per cent of these viewers report that they are watching the same, or more, regularly scheduled TV since they started streaming or downloading […]