TV, movie and online video content expenditure across India, Korea and Southeast Asia’s five biggest growth markets (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) rose by 8 per cent in 2017 to reach $10.2 billion (€8.67bn), according to the 2018 edition of Asia Video Content Dynamics from analyst firm Media Partners Asia (MPA). The biggest increases […]
In 2017, global consumer expenditure on entertainment content (video, games and music) worldwide continued to climb. By 2021, this spend is set to reach $439 billion (€355bn) globally, a 17 per cent increase from 2017, according to the latest Global Entertainment Content Outlook report from Futuresource Consulting. “As expected, TV and Video account for the […]
In 2018, 2.38 billion people will watch streaming or downloaded video content via any device, according to resesarch firm eMarketer’s first-ever global digital video forecast report. With mobile phones being the entry
According to the seventh annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2016-2021), both consumer and business applications are contributing to the growing dominance of cloud services over the Internet. For consumers, streaming video, social networking, and Internet search are among the most popular cloud applications. By 2021, video will account for 85 per cent of traffic from […]
According to findings from entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo, the average global viewer spends 4.4 hours each day watching video. Coupled with the global average of 28 minutes spent each day searching for content to watch, that is nearly five hours per day of video engagement, which amounts to 20 per cent of […]
According to trade body the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE), data from the Official Charts Company and IHS Markit suggest that consumer spend across the video category rose by 7.5 per cent in 2017, a third consecutive year of growth that brings the total value of the category to £2.69 billion (€3.03bn). Ownership continues […]
As expectations build for the repeal of net neutrality, business information provider IHS Markit has released a report that examines the history of the topic and explores the relevant data on competition that defines the outlook for the Internet should current protections be removed. If as expected the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in its next […]
Global performance management company Nielsen has launched Nielsen Mobile Video Performance, which it says is the industry’s first and most complete video performance evaluation solution for IP-based video content delivery, aiming to provide clear understanding of network performance impacting consumer experiences. Developed for mobile operators, Internet service providers, device manufacturers and content providers, Nielsen Mobile […]
Cisco Systems is reportedly looking for a buyer for its former NDS video software division, Cisco Videoscape. Bloomberg is quoting people familiar with the process, adding that Cisco is looking to sharpen its focus in the extremely fast-changing network infrastructure business. Cisco paid around $5 billion for NDS back in 2012. Cisco sold the former […]
Best-selling German tabloid newspaper BILD has turned to video transport technologist LiveU to stream live video content across multiple platforms. Already experienced with video, BILD wanted to expand into live video, with more advanced technology than it had been using before. “We at BILD saw very early that web-hosted video is important for both delivering […]