IHS has published a report looking at trends in TV viewing across the US and major Western European markets. While broadcast TV viewing is still on the up across many countries (particularly recession-hit Italy and Spain), many of the increases in hours spent watching TV have been driven by time-shifted TV and on-demand usage. In […]
Content monetisation technology and services specialist FreeWheel has released its Video Monetisation Report – an executive briefing of trends it observed around monetising professional video content for Q2 2013. It hopes the report will provide some insight into best practices and broader trends for how publishers, advertisers, and consumers are all playing a role in […]
Civolution, a provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetising content has published the results of The “Multiscreen Video and Piracy: The Big Picture” survey report, carried out by Digital TV Europe. Key findings of the survey include:
A report from IHS Screen Digest says that a small group of niche consumers is continuing to back Blu-ray 3D, and that sales Blu-ray 3D sales in the US grew by 56 per cent last year, and that Blu-ray 3D – in terms of value – now makes up 9.5 per cent of the whole […]
More Sky viewers than ever before are watching sport through mobile devices and second screen technology, according to figures released by Sky Sports. Marquee events including the Ashes and the start of the football season have contributed to record figures of sports fans viewing and engaging with sport using their phones, tablets, and PCs. Sky […]
IDATE has published its report on the Internet of Things market. It provides an opportunity to clarify the frontiers of this new market and to present and analyse the key building blocks; the market structure, the players’ strategies and the dynamics of the key vertical markets (automotive, aeronautics, energy, food and retail, connected home, healthcare, […]
The TV set remains the main entertainment hub in German living rooms, but it is being increasingly supplemented by smartphones and tablets. Research from Ipsos reveals that 43 per cent of
According to the NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Smart TV Usage Study, consumers in emerging markets are twice as likely as those in mature markets to purchase an Internet-enabled Smart TV in the coming 12 months. When asked about their planned TV purchases, 71 per cent of consumers in Brazil, China, and other emerging markets reported they […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research released its 2nd quarter 2013 CMTS and Edge QAM Hardware and Subscribers report, which tracks cable broadband equipment and subscribers. “Once again, the cable broadband aggregation market is a tale of opposing trends: increasing channel capacity to support DOCSIS 3.0, multiscreen, and OTT video, and decreasing price-per-channel,” notes Jeff Heynen, […]
The smart set-top box and dongle market is expected to pass 18 million units in 2013 – higher than originally forecasted due to the arrival of Google’s Chromecast device. According to analysis firm ABI Research, overall the market is expected to grow with a 10.8 per cent CAGR (2013 to 2018) with less saturated and […]