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Canadian Cord-Cutting 6 Times Faster This Year Than Last 13 August 2015

  Canadian TV providers are losing customers six times faster this year than they did last year, according to new research from Ottawa-based Boon Dog Professional Services. The research firm’s latest study on TV subscribers found the country’s publicly-traded broadcasters … Continue reading

OTT: Friend or Foe to Pay TV? Study Suggests Friend 12 August 2015

  The latest research from Horowitz Research’s Multiplatform Content & Services report shows that over-the-top video on demand streaming services remain a complement to, not a replacement for, traditional pay TV: 40% of Internet users have multichannel and an OTT SVOD … Continue reading

The TV Is Dead, Long Live The TV 12 August 2015

  Across the Internet there are stats that sound the death knell for television. Nomura  revealed that viewership of live TV declined 12.7% in January. Nielsen stated American TV viewership averaged over 141 hours per month, per person, in Q3 … Continue reading

Netflix Reveals Fastest And Slowest Video Streaming ISPs 12 August 2015

  As most people who’ve ever tried to watch streamed video will know, the experience you get is hugely dependent on the stability and speed of your broadband connection. Nobody appreciates this more than video on demand service Netflix, of course. … Continue reading

Kids Prefer Streaming TV, But Still Choose TV Set Over Phones, Says PwC Report 11 August 2015

  It’s a panicky time in the TV business, particularly when it comes to the prevailing fear among TV executives that young people are never going to watch TV the way that their parents did. There may be some truth … Continue reading

The Beginning of the End of the TV Industrial Complex 11 August 2015

  After years of insisting otherwise, investors seem to have decided that the pay TV business is in decline. Last week, triggered by an admission of weakness from Disney and ESPN, Wall Street pounded all of the big media companies, wiping … Continue reading

Sarah Calderon Speaks About New Video Distribution Models 10 August 2015

  Worldwide day-and-date releases surged from 60 in 2012 to 233 in 2013, The Film Agency CEO Sarah Calderon said in a Locarno Fest master class, Classic & Alternative Distribution, citing a E.U. Media Program report, Circulation of Films in the … Continue reading

Deloitte Australia Survey Finds Internet Usage Level With TV Viewing 10 August 2015

  The internet is as popular as TV as an entertainment outlet now, according to new consumer research, although offline activities such as reading and listening to music have also grown. The fourth annual Deloitte Media Consumer Survey suggests the … Continue reading

Six In 10 UK Viewers Take SVoD, Computers Still Main Device 10 August 2015

Six out of 10 UK TV viewers pay for a subscription VoD service, according to research by OTT quality assurance and data specialist Conviva, with three in 10 saying they looked at the breadth of a content library as the … Continue reading

Cablevision CEO Claims No Immediate Cord-Cutting “Landslide” 10 August 2015

  “I don’t think the sky is falling quite yet,” Cablevision Systems CEO Jim Dolan said Friday on the company’s earnings conference call in addressing Wall Street’s cord-cutting worries that have driven down entertainment stocks this week. “There is not … Continue reading