IPTV subscribers will grow from 20.4 million in 2008 to 89.6 million in 2012, according to Multimedia Research Group’s latest IPTV Global Forecast. To drive this growth, IPTV Operators worldwide are expected to continue investing in improved quality-of-service, ease-of-operation, HD content, exclusive programming and time-shifting as differentiating features. In Europe steady IPTV subscriber growth continues… Continue reading IPTV to reach 89.6m subscribers globally in 2012

Dennis Publishing has appointed Ben Raworth as the new editorial director of men’s lifestyle magazine Maxim.Raworth will take over the new role from this month, transferring from his current Dennis Publishing position as new product development editor, in which he has overseen the launches of Monkey, iGIZMO and iMOTOR.Reporting into Bruce Sandell, MD of the… Continue reading Maxim appoints new editorial director

Universal McCann’s Cate Connolly shared insights from research into what consumers want from TV at Friday morning’s MRG conference.Despite doom-mongering about the impact of digital video recorders and web 2.0 technology on TV, Connolly argued that the future of television is assured because consumers love TV, but it will need to adapt to their changing… Continue reading MRG Conference 2008:Who Wins in the New Age of Television

Daily Newspaper MarketThe national daily newspaper market suffered an overall circulation fall of 5.1% year on year in October.The only daily national title in our analysis to enjoy an increase in circulation was the Financial Times, up 0.5% year on year.There was a large year on year fall for the Independent, down 16.3%. National Newspaper… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: October 2008

October was a good month for the Evening Standard, with the title enjoying a 3% month on month increase in circulation.The Standard now has a total circulation figure of just under 307,000 copies.Morning business freesheet City AM saw its distribution figure rise by just under 1% in October, to over 101,000 copies.The afternoon freesheets London… Continue reading Evening Standard’s circulation up in October

Thinkbox’s David Brennan began the 2008 MRG conference’s final and winning paper by speaking about Thinkbox’s research into programme sponsorship.Although many recognise that sponsorship performs well, Thinkbox wanted to provide hard evidence about how and why it works, and to attempt to explain the differences between it and spot advertising.Using a variety of methods, Thinkbox… Continue reading MRG Conference 2008:What Lies Beneath – Getting Under the Skin of Sponsorship

Over the past six months, the popularity of online video services in the US has grown significantly with women and older consumers, helping close the age and gender gap within the burgeoning online video audience, according to new data from Ipsos MediaCT. Ipsos MediaCT’s MOTION study illustrated the widespread appeal online video services have with… Continue reading Online Video Services Growing In Popularity In US

There has been a huge shift in consumer attitude towards the entertainment market, according to the latest reports from Verdict Research. In the 12 months to the end of 2008 Verdict predicts that the buoyant video games market will have grown by £1.37 billion – at a time when the combined music & video sectors… Continue reading Video games market overtakes music & video

At Thursday morning’s MRG conference, Jo Hamilton explained how the BBC, in association with GfK NOP Media, is providing insight into how it is reaching audiences across an increasing number of platforms and measuring the value it is delivering to its audience.Guy Holcroft from GfK NOP Media explained some of the methodology used behind the… Continue reading MRG Conference 2008:Cross Media Reach

AOL’s global ad revenue was down by 6% year on year in Q3, with revenue dropping 17% to $1 billion (£626 million).Parent company Time Warner said that the fall in revenue was down to a 26% decline in subscription revenue and the fall in ad revenue.The fall in subscription revenue reflects a decrease in US… Continue reading AOL’s ad revenue falls