New research from Parks Associates shows consumers are developing preferences for TV-content apps as more smartphone and tablet users are using TV-channel apps from networks like MTV, Nickelodeon, and USA Network and apps for shows like Glee and The Walking Dead. The firm finds 14% of smartphone/tablet users surveyed in the first quarter of  2013 have recently used a TV-content app and nearly 75% of these users are satisfied with this app experience.

Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its new Pay TV Subscriber Database, which tracks the cable video, satellite video and telco IPTV subscribers of over 140 service providers around the world. The next edition will be published August 5. 

After two years of declining TV shipments for Brazil, the 2014 World Cup is expected to support a double-digit rise in shipments, according to the Quarterly Brazil TV Shipment and Forecast ReportNPD DisplaySearch. Q1’13 TV shipments for Brazil declined 11% from a year ago to 2.1M and the forecast is for shipments in 2013 to decline 2% Y/Y. The World Cup will be the first of several boosts to the industry over the next few years, with shipments rising 18% in 2014, as the World Cup begins.

Latest research from Futuresource predicts that global 4KTV shipments will grow from just 62,000 units last year to 780,000 in 2013 and 22 million units in 2017. The reports adds that the local  4K content and increased consumer awareness will help boost sales from 2015 onwards.

Futuresource also expects most global TV brands to launch a range of 4KTVs by the end of this year, with North America seen as the leading market due a recovering economy and strong consumer demand for large screens.

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) raised contract revenue 18.3% in 2012, to US$2.28 billion, as value-added services (site/app acceleration, cloud solutions, analytics, specialized HTTP video platforms, content transformation, workflow, management, security and rights protection) in addition to core bandwidth provisioning supporting very large video accounts fuelled market growth, according to "Content Delivery Networks Analytics 2012 - 2015" report. 

In the second half of 2012, the number of cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections reported by China Mobile had increased by nearly 5.5 million. That’s as many as the UK had in total at the end of last year. This outstanding growth has helped to propel China forward to become the single largest national market in terms of connections, having now overtaken the US.

85.2 percent of the U.S. Internet audience viewed online video, according to the latest  comScore Video Metrix service showing that 183 million Americans watched more than 44 billion online content videos in June, while the number of video ad views surpassed 20 billion.

The duration of the average online content video was 5.3 minutes, while the average online video ad was 0.4 minutes. Video ads accounted for 31 percent of all videos viewed and 3 percent of all minutes spent viewing video online.

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers

Military expenditure faces challenges with declining budgets impacting the introduction of new platforms, but technology will be the differentiator providing opportunities for RF technologies. The Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service report, "Defense Market Opportunities for RF Technologies" forecasts that the market for RF technologies will remain strong as the focus shifts towards enhancing capabilities in areas such as radar, satellite communications and electronic warfare.

Despite the pay-TV industry’s increasing focus on delivering services to alternative devices like PCs, smartphones and tablets, its traditional flagship platform-- the set-top box (STB)—continues to thrive, with market shipments set to hit record highs in 2013, 2014 and 2015, according to the latest IHS Set-Top Box Monitor report.

The pay-TV market in India is expected to reach 167 million subscribers in 2017 from 140 million in 2012, showing a 3.6% CAGR during this period, according to a new report by Multimedia Research Group (MRG). DTH, alone, is expected to reach 100 million subscribers by 2017. Following digitization, it will surpass cable TV penetration, which comprised 67% of the pay-TV market share in 2012.

The IPTV subscriber base, however, is expected to remain negligible owing to unfavorable government norms and regulations.