Sandvine, a provider of network intelligence has released a Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight report focusing on paid subscription television piracy services. The report reveals that 6.5% of households in North...
Over the Top (OTT) streaming services offered up by Subscription and Advertising Video on Demand (SVOD & AVOD) companies risk significant revenue seepage as a result of a poor advertising...
Netflix and Amazon are struggling to make headway in the Middle East and will together take just 21% of the local subscription video on-demand market this year, according to IHS...
Mobile devices will account for 75% of global internet use next year, according to Zeniths new Mobile Advertising Forecasts. The mobile proportion of internet use has increased rapidly, from 40% in...
John Naylor, Technology Strategist, Ross VideoRoss Video and Cisco announced the availability of a joint whitepaper at NAB New York, entitled Newsroom in a Box in...
Operators in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region will be amongst the first in the world to launch commercial 5G networks, according to a new report, titled The Mobile...
SVOD subscriptions are forecast to reach 546 million by 2022; double the 263 million recorded by end-2016, according to a report by Digital TV Research which...
The total number of Pay-TV subscribers reached approximately 23.7 million, according to Dataxis latest research. This represents a quarter-on-quarter growth of +2%, and a year-on-on growth of +18%.Among the subscribers,...
David, CEO of Voices.comThe Voice Over market is estimated to be worth $4.4 billion annually, according to a report from Voices.com, a large global online marketplace...
Pay-TV providers face a perfect storm of slowing growth, intensifying competition and business model disruption. This is, according to the 2017 Pay-TV Innovation Forum, published by Nagra in partnership with...
This year at IBC, the Forum will share insights from research on more than 50 TV operators.Ultra HD Forum will share findings from industry research into...
More than a half of industry executives and experts (53%) expect transformational shake-up in revenue distribution over the next five years, according to a new global study on the changes...
More than a third of Premier League football fans say they regularly watch matches live online via unofficial streams, according to a BBC Radio 5 survey.The report, which was published...
Growth in worldwide cloud-based security services will remain strong, reaching $5.9 billion in 2017, up 21% from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Overall growth in the cloud-based security services market...
Michael Cronk, AIMS Chairman of the Board.The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has released a white paper aimed at helping broadcasters transition to IP with...
An analysis released by IHS Markit shows that the pay TV market in the MENA region saw record growth in 2016 despite harsh economic conditions.Pay TV households topped the five million...
The growth of cloud and industrialised services, and the decline of traditional data centre outsourcing (DCO) indicate a massive shift toward hybrid infrastructure services, according to Gartner, Inc.In a report...
Ipsos recently released a report enumerating some of the factors contributing to the growth of OTT services in the MENA region. We bring you some key findings of the report...
The public cloud services market in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is projected to grow 22.2% in 2017 to total $1.2 billion, up from $956 million in 2016,...
The 22nd edition of CABSAT will continue to drive disruptive innovation and monetisation opportunities across the MENA filmed & audio entertainment media market.Running from March 8 to 10 at Dubai...
Chris O'Hearn.Lists are all the rage, so heres my attempt at clickbait. Here's a list of three things we learnt from Ramadan 2015 and number three will...
Ericsson has revealed the scale of the regions ongoing data revolution with traffic growth doubling last year. The June 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Ericsson Mobility Report shows that in 2014 phone...
New research from the Arab Advisors Group reveals that FTA satellite TV average ad rates are highest during night time between 21:00 and 22:00 Saudi Arabias time. Peak average advertising...
TV everywhere in MENA in 2013 accounted for more than USD 10m, which is projected to grow ten fold by 2018 to $100m.The main drivers of TV Everywhere are high...
Now that the MENA broadcast rights for the Premier League have been awarded exclusively to Al Jazeera Sport, Karim Sarkis, who was part of the team that negotiated the rights...
SME, shared infra structure.Easy broadband access has been shown to have a massive impact on global economies, stimulating markets, improving the daily lives of millions of...
The development of playout automation for television neatly parallels, and encapsulates, the dramatic changes that computers and off-the-shelf IT hardware have brought to the broadcast business. It is also a...
Simplicity and consistency is key to choosing the right surround sound capture for sporting events. It is important to choose a solution that is easy to deploy, simple to use...
Chris O'hearn.Movies is one of the few genres where Emirati, Arab and Asian audiences truly overlap, and broadcasters are cashing in on the trend with dedicated...
Jan Eveleens.According to Jan Eveleens, CEO, Axon, AVB has the capability to transform the way broadcasters manage and deliver live production video contentAudio and video equipment...
Mathew Sansom.Abu Dhabi Classic FM has shown the fastest growth of any English language radio station in the UAE over the past three years, both in...
Global Market Value for Pay-TV CAS and DRM to reach nearly $2 billion in 2016.The global market value for pay-TV CAS and DRM will grow significantly...
