Market Trends

Dallas, Tex., December 2, 2014--Parks Associates announced updated streaming media device data today showing 10% of U.S. broadband households purchased one of these devices, either a streaming media player or stick, in the first three quarters of 2014, already matching sales from 2013.

Hong Kong, December 1, 2014–According to CASBAA’s recently updated Asia Pacific Multichannel TV Advertising 2015 book, the Asia Pacific now boasts 500,639,000 multichannel homes across the region. An annual compendium of regional facts and figures and advertising research culled from a variety of sources, the Asia Pacific Multichannel TV Advertising 2015 is updated every year to provide essential data for the region’s broadcasting industry.

Amman, Jordan,  November 26, 2014--The number of FTA satellite channels in the Arab World reached 762 channels by September 2014. The Arab Advisors Group researched and analyzed the 762 channels that broadcast on Arabsat, Nilesat, Noorsat and Yahlive. Fully operational channels reached 724. The majority of the analyzed FTA satellite channels broadcast in Standard Definition (SD), while only 10.5% broadcast in High Definition (HD).

Santa. Clara, Calif., November 26, 2014– TV shipments improved 4% Y/Y in Q3’14, and LCD TV shipments alone rose nearly 9%, according to the latest findings in the Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report, produced by DisplaySearch, now part of IHS Inc.

London, UK, November 25, 2014–Vindicia, a leader in enterprise-class subscription billing, and Ooyala, an innovator in video streaming, personalization and analytics, have today announced the results of a qualitative pan-European study that looks at the current premium service OTT market and its projected growth in the UK, Dutch and German regions by 2017.

Dallas, Tex., November 24, 2014--New analysis and insights from Parks Associates  predict smart watches and connected entertainment devices, including game consoles and streaming media devices, will be the most popular gifts for the holiday season. Among connected CE devices acquired in 2014, 37% of smart watches, 25% of streaming media devices (including players like the Roku 3 and sticks like the Google Chromecast), and 20% of gaming consoles were received as gifts.

Singapore, November 21, 2014--​The consumption of mobile telecom services by consumers is no longer proportional to the revenue generated for mobile operators. In many countries, 4G LTE tariff plans have been introduced at the same price points as their 3G tariff plans. According to ABI Research, the global average traffic generated per user per month will expand from 275 megabytes in 3Q 2014 to 1.85 gigabytes in 2019. Video traffic is expected to reach 65% within 5 years.

Campbell, Calif., November 20, 2014—Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its latest Pay TV Services and Subscribers report, which forecasts and analyzes the cable TV, satellite TV, and telco internet protocol television (IPTV), and over-the-top (OTT) services markets.

Wilmington, DE, November 19, 2014– In its inaugural emerging market country-level market study, BRICS Satellite Capacity Supply & Demand, NSR delves into the 5 countries (Brazil, Russia, China, India & South Africa) and focus on the satellite telecommunications elements of their rapidly expanding economies. The study paints a broad picture of total supply, demand, and revenues for satellite capacity in each market, with granular application-level and per-frequency-band details and highlights, while some of the fastest growing economies in the world, no two are alike. 

Stockholm, Sweden, November 18, 2014--The latest edition of the Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Mobility Report, a comprehensive update on mobile trends leveraging big data from live networks worldwide, launches today and reveals that proliferation of mobile technology continues at a rapid pace: 90 percent of the world's population over six years old is predicted to have a mobile phone by 2020. Furthermore, by 2020 smartphone subscriptions are forecast to top 6.1 billion.