Pay-TV subscribers in Spain have dropped for the fifth straight quarter in the first three months of this year. Data published by the regulator Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) indicated that pay-TV platforms only had 3,926,844 customers as of the end of March, compared to 4,077,101 three months earlier, and 4,369,849 as of March 31, 2012. The latest figures are pay-TV platforms’ lowest since third quarter of 2009.

The Arab Advisors Group released the results of its Cellular Competition Intensity Index 2013 in July 2013. The index ranks Saudi Arabia as the most competitive Arab cellular market for the third consecutive year. Jordan came in second, followed by Palestine.

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.