North American pay TV use to drop to 75%
Pay TV penetration in North America is set to drop to 75.2% by 2022, from a peak of 87.4% in 2013, according to new research. The Digital TV Research report predicts that the number of pay TV...
View ArticleSVOD in western Europe, North America to surpass pay TV by 2021
Richard Broughton The number of SVOD customers in western Europe and North America will exceed the number of pay TV subscribers by 2021, according to Ampere Analysis. Ampere predicts there will be 261...
View ArticleNorth American smart TV shipments up 10.9% in Q1
North American smart TV shipments grew 10.9% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2017 to 7.72 million units, according to Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. The...
View ArticleData to have ‘significant impact’ on North American pay TV
Advanced data and analytics will have a significant impact on the North American pay TV industry over the next five years, according to more than half of industry executives polled in a new study....
View ArticleEndemol Shine closes US digital studio
Bonnie Pan Endemol Shine North America has closed digital video studio Endemol Beyond USA. This will see the exit of Endemol Beyond USA president Bonnie Pan and four other employees. Endemol Shine...
View ArticleNBC hires ex-Endemol Shine unscripted exec
Linda Giambrone US broadcaster NBC has hired former Endemol Shine North America unscripted production chief Linda Giambrone. She has been named executive VP of production for NBC Entertainment and...
View ArticleStingray passes subscriber milestone
Business-to-business music provider Stingray’s subscription video-on-demand offerings have surpassed the milestone of 100,000 paying subscribers across North America and Europe. Stingray’s SVOD...
View ArticleHasbro ‘ends Lionsgate takeover talks’
Orange is the New Black Toy giant Hasbro was recently in talks to buy North American studio Lionsgate but has now ended the discussions, according to US reports. A Reuters story quoted unnamed sources...
View ArticleNorth American SVOD subscriptions to grow 53% by 2022
The number of North American SVOD subscriptions is due to grow by 53% between 2016 and 2022, according to Digital TV Research. The new study claims that the number of people subscribing to TV and movie...
View ArticleAsia Pacific SVOD set to overtake North America
Asia Pacific is due to overtake North America this year to become the biggest subscription video-on-demand market by subscriber numbers. This is according to Digital TV Research, which estimates that...
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