The smart set-top box and dongle market is expected to pass 18 million units in 2013 – higher than originally forecast, due to the arrival of Google’s Chromecast device.
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Accrington, in Lancashire, has been named the 100th town in the UK to receive the superfast mobile internet.
Forget trying to celebrate yet another ‘year of mobile’ says Videology Group’s Anne de Kerckhove, and in 2013 raise your glass to the year of cross device consumption.
Following AOL’s purchase of Adap.tv, along with fresh viewing figures from Thinkbox, it’s plain to see that video on demand is growing, says Dominic Mills – though achingly slowly – and live TV certainly retains an iron grip on our viewing habits for now.
New TV viewing figures from Thinkbox for the first half of 2013 show how people’s television habits are changing as on-demand TV viewing becomes a more established part of people’s lives.
This week Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive!, examines the evolution of TV and video – looking at the new thinking and experimentation being driven by the proliferation of new devices and consumer behaviours.
Mobile phones now account for almost a fifth of all web usage across the globe, according to new research from Statista – with European mobile web usage increasing by almost 4% year on year.
Speaking at the 2013 Edinburgh International Television Festival, Spacey said that shows such as Breaking Bad and The Sopranos were “inescapable evidence that the King of television is the creative”, and that “revolutionary programming” must be kept alive.
The news comes alongside the announcement that Netflix has reached an exclusive deal with Weinstein Co. for the film producers’ film catalogue starting in 2016.
The UK currently stands at 9.6 million homes and at number five in the top five pay satellite TV countries, however is expected to be replaced by Indonesia in 2018.