According to John Bird, Principal Consultant at Futuresource Consulting, the impact of on-demand on linear viewing and the rising cost of sports rights are two of the main reasons behind the well-publicised and highly acrimonious pricing row between Sky and Discovery Communications which was settled shortly before the broadcaster’s 12 thematic genre channels were set […]
It has been an impressive year for UK television exports, according to the latest UK Television Exports Report, with sales to international markets in 2015/16 rising to £1.326 billion (€1.544bn), a 10 per cent increase from £1.205 billion in 2014/15. The report also shows a sizeable increase in activity in the Chinese market, which is […]
Futuresource Consulting’s annual evaluation of the health and shape of global home video entertainment, detailing the macro trends of 2016, in addition to insights for 2017 and beyond, indicates that households are spending more than ever before on video entertainment, and in 2016, the combined home video and pay-TV market totalled $251.5 billion (€234bn), up […]
According to market research firm Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker service, the churn rate for OTT video services is 19 per cent of US broadband households, indicating roughly one in five households have cancelled an OTT service in the past 12 months. The company notes
The battle of on-demand streaming television services continues to intensify. In the past couple of weeks, Netflix announced a big increase in subscribers and the BBC has unveiled ambitious plans for iPlayer in a bid to make sure it doesn’t fall behind its commercial rivals. Premium on-demand services are making inroads into the BBC’s territory. […]
Netflix users on Android devices can now download content to their device’s SD card – meaning they are no longer restricted to their size of their device’s memory capacity when storing content. When saving a programme or movie for offline viewing (a feature which Netflix added last month), Android users will now be prompted to […]
Hulu and Magnolia Pictures have announced a new output licensing agreement that will grant Hulu the pay one window streaming rights to films released by the major film distributor. Through the deal, the films will become available to stream exclusively on Hulu following their theatrical run. Future releases will begin streaming on Hulu in the […]
Service providers are decreasing marketing on their cable, satellite, and IPTV products that offer managed quality of service in favour of new products that use OTT technologies to compete with Amazon and Netflix, according to ABI Research. With OTT competition significantly increasing in mature pay-TV markets, ABI Research in its Service Provider OTT Services & […]
With Australia’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) now blocking their customers from a number of websites used to download copyrighted movies and TV shows for free, Roy Morgan Research has studied whose customers are most likely to pay for their downloads. According to the firm, 1.45 million Australians aged 14+ buy movies and TV show downloads […]
Netflix has reported 7.05 million net new members globally in Q4 2016 against its forecast of 5.2 million and 2016’s Q4 performance of 5.59 million. This represents the largest quarter of net additions in its history and was driven by strong acquisition trends in both its US and International segments. As the streaming giant revealed […]