A survey conducted by research firm Survata for Quartz found that 31 per cent of Americans who have access to a Netflix subscription do not actually pay for it. Young people are the biggest offenders: 69 per cent of people aged 13 to 17 use someone else’s login details, and 50 per cent of 18- […]
According to findings from media financial intelligence specialist SNL Kagan, the downward trajectory of the US multichannel segment continued in the fourth quarter of 2015 despite a resurgence in cable subscriptions and solid direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) results, suggesting a share shift rather than a retreat from cord cutting. SNL Kagan estimates the combined cable, DBS […]
EBS, the full-service provider of EPG data for platforms and channels, is now providing BT Sport with data that enables the functionality to record events directly from its red button interactive service. The packed schedules live sports competitions on BT Sport, including the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, mean that there can be […]
The TV and video viewing landscape in the UK has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. But even as digital video consumption comes to the fore, certain ingrained habits continue to influence the shape of the market, with traditional TV playing a central role in ushering in digital video services, according to an eMarketer […]
Mexican TV group Televisa has confirmed it is removing all it content from Netflix in order to keep the content exclusively for its own VoD platform, Blim, that will launch later this year. “Televisa content will be exclusively for Blim; that’s our strategy,” said Blim’s director general, Carlos Sandoval in an interview with Forbes. There […]
PlayStation Vue, the cloud-based TV service from Sony, is extending the service to an additional 203 TV designated market areas (DMAs) to cover the entire US. Consumers in the newly launched TV markets will have access to PlayStation Vue’s Slim multi-channel plans starting at $29.99 per month. This service offers more than 100 top live […]
The BBC has held talks with rivals including ITV about launching a Netflix-style video SVoD streaming service. The talks, which are also said to have involved NBC Universal, focus on the potential to develop a subscription TV service. The service would major on providing archive TV content from the broadcasters rather than the first-run of […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) suggest that the thirteen largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 385,000 net video subscribers in 2015, compared to a loss of about 150,000 subscribers in 2014, and a loss of about 100,000 subscribers in 2013. The top […]
According to research and consultancy firm Ampere Analysis, the market for triple-play bundling is reaching saturation point. In mature markets such as North America and Europe the average communications subscription has almost two products to every customer, and some providers have upsold three. Bundling TV, fixed phone and broadband has been a key way for […]
Japan’s already mobile-centric consumers increasingly prefer mobile devices over other digital means to watch TV and subscription digital services. According to study by Nielsen NetRatings Japan, the country had 5.32 million smartphone viewers of VoD content in November 2015. This is in comparison to just 1.39 million Japanese viewers who watched such content via desktop […]