Industry Updates

Cord Cutting Continues in Canada as Cable Companies Lose Thousands More Customers 02 April 2015

Canada’s large cable and satellite providers have had another year of declining subscriber numbers. The seven largest cable, satellite and IPTV providers lost a total of over 24,000 subscribers between Aug. 31, 2013 and Aug. 31, 2014, according to disclosures filed … Continue reading

Video on Demand Continues to Revolutionize TV, Movie Industries 01 April 2015

Video on demand services like Netflix and Hulu were niche businesses just a few years ago but in recent months it’s become clear that these platforms for streaming movies and television shows are a big part of the coming future of … Continue reading

Netflix and Fairfax in an uncaring new media environment 01 April 2015

Serious TV viewers have been celebrating last week’s arrival of legal Netflix video on demand content, which offers ’all you can eat’ streaming for just $8.99 per month. On the one hand, it makes pay TV more accessible to low income earners, who until … Continue reading

Channel 4 predicts 50% of VoD inventory will be traded on demographic data by 2017 01 April 2015

Channel 4 predicts that within two years as much as 50 per cent its advertising inventory on VoD (video-on-demand) will be traded based on demographically targeted information. Currently, around 15 per cent of its VoD ad sales are ‘big data-enhanced’. The … Continue reading

Online VoD to eclipse linear TV by 2020 in Germany 01 April 2015

Streaming and video on demand services will overtake linear television by 2020, according to Michael Westphal, leader of the streaming media work group at German internet industry group Eco. Digital TV Research analysts predict that VoD service Netflix alone will have … Continue reading