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Mobile TV ‘moment passed’

A study has found that disappointing adoption levels of existing mobile TV services, allied to competition both from streamed mobile services facilitated by the growing prevalence of WiFi and from mobile reception of free-to-air terrestrial networks, has lead to growing disillusionment within the industry. The Juniper Research report found that the number of paying subscribers […]

August 3, 2010

New media behaviours are sticking

New media behaviours are sticking Interpret, a US market research firm, has released data from its quarterly New Media Measure study that tracks media behaviours, device ownership, attitudes and product consumption. Behaviour and trending data from its 2010 first-quarter report reveals the continued proliferation of social networks, further growth of streaming video and the domination […]

July 30, 2010

Mobile TV set for accelerated adoption after 2012

Market inhibitors are being addressed and worldwide adoption will accelerate starting in 2012 through 2015 when total market revenues are forecast to exceed $20 billion says AIB research. The three most important market barriers have been: – The lack of free and simulcast local and national TV programs as a primer for fee-based premium content […]

June 18, 2010

TV boosts UK ad forecast

Group M has dramatically raised its forecast for the UK advertising market in 2010, from flat to 4.2 per cent year-on-year growth. Group M, WPP’s combined media buying operation, expects a particular surge in TV advertising, revising its forecast from an overall decline for 2010 to a year-on-year increase of almost 12 per cent. In […]

June 4, 2010

Cisco: Global IP traffic to increase more than fourfold by 2014

The latest annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014 projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4 of a Zettabyte, by 2014. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times all the traffic […]

June 3, 2010

Video services market to top $250bn in 2014

Market research firm Infonetics has released the first edition of its 2010 biannual Video Services and Subscribers report, which tracks telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video services and subscribers. “Increased competition among video service operators will help keep monthly subscription fees in check, which will offset some of the growth expected from incremental revenue […]

June 3, 2010

Wireless links set to boom

The Consumer Electronics (CE) industry is entering a new era of ubiquitous connectivity, spurring a boom in shipments of video-oriented CE devices equipped with high-bandwidth wireless video interface solutions, according to iSuppli Corp. iSuppli expects the market for video-enabled CE devices with high-bandwidth wireless video interfaces to grow to more than 85.2 million units by […]

June 3, 2010

Piracy costs Spanish industry E5.121bn in 6 months

Digital content pirated in Spain during the second half of 2009 was worth E5.121 billion and accounted for 76 per cent of the CDs, movies, books and video games consumed during that period, according to a study by US consultancy firm IDC By sector, music is most affected by illegal downloading, with a piracy rate […]

June 3, 2010

Portuguese pay-TV dwellings top 2.6m

From Branislav Pekic in Rome The number of pay-TV dwellings in Portugal reached 2.6 million at the end of the first quarter, an increase of 277,000 over the same period of 2009 and 69,000 more than in the previous quarter. According to data from regulator Anacom, Zon TV Cabo is still the market leader with […]

June 2, 2010

Mobile TV opportunity for European operators

Telegent Systems has released research findings that point to significant potential for free-to-air mobile TV. Fifty-eight per cent of the British online research sample identified at least one environment, such as while on a train/ bus/ tube, queuing, or in the home or at work/ their desk, in which they would be likely to use […]

June 2, 2010