Subscribers to short-form mobile series service Studio+ have received an email advising them the platform will shut down shortly. The news comes just a couple weeks after Canal+ announced it was closing down its SVoD service Canalplay after the number of subscribers dropped to 200,000. Launched two years ago at Mip TV, Vivendi’s mobile platform […]
Global consumers will spend an average of 67 minutes a day watching online video this year, up from 56 minutes last year, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2018. By 2020, the average person will be spending 84 minutes a day watching videos online. In that year, China will have the keenest viewers, with the […]
Nearly eight million Australians aged 14+ own a video game console in the household, almost two-fifths of the population (39.4 per cent). In this eighth generation of video game consoles, Sony’s PlayStation 4 has the highest number of consoles in Australian households, independent Australian research company Roy Morgan reveals. This is significantly larger than Microsoft’s […]
Netflix’s cost of adding new subscribers on its home soil in the US has rocketed in recent years, reaching $100 (€86) per net new subscriber, according to Ampere Analysis. Acquisition costs for domestic subscribers have increased significantly in recent years; from 2013-2015 the cost of a net new domestic subscriber stood at a stable figure […]
Having launched the Download feature in 2016, making it possible for its members to take their stories with them wherever they go, Netflix has now introduced Smart Downloads. When users finish watching a downloaded episode, Smart Downloads will delete it, and then automatically download the next episode. “We know how annoying it can be to […]
After a boom year in 2017, the European VoD market will see significant growth over the next four years, but short of the peaks of recent years, with the exception of Southern Europe, especially Italy. Total revenues for the VoD sector in Western Europe will amount to €6.25 billion in 2018, growing at a 12 […]
Research by Ampere Analysis reveals that SVoD stacking is fuelling the continued growth of the SVoD market as adoption amongst new customers slows. Most notably in established markets such as the UK, US and Germany, multiple subscription households are on the rise, and the average SVoD home now takes two services. In the US the […]
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 […]
A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the UK House of Commons on the BBC’s commercial activities has concluded that the BBC must strike a balance between serving UK audiences and seeking to grow revenue in a challenging global market. According to the Committee, the BBC is facing increasing challenges from commercial competitors […]
MultiChoice has admitted that it has lost some 100,000 subscribers to its DStv Premium service. The South Africa-based pay-TV operator says it has been hit hard by the arrival of Netflix into some of its markets. Few doubt that MultiChoice (and DStv) control the lion’s share of the pay-TV market helped by consumers appreciating its […]