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Joseph O'Halloran

| 28 July 2020

Despite inroads from social media and OTT, traditional viewing habits reigned in major markets in the major economies over 2019 according to research firm Omdia.

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Joseph O'Halloran

| 24 July 2020

Despite the effects that Covid-19 has had in the country, specifically the postponement of the 2020 Olympics Games which promised a TV extravaganza, Japan’s total pay-TV services revenue is set to register a CAGR of 1.9% from 2019-2024, increasing from US$8.9 billion in 2019 to US$9.8billion in 2024, according to forecasts from GlobalData.

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Joseph O'Halloran

| 22 July 2020

Despite the amount of streaming options rapidly increasing across all of 2020, even before the Covid-19 outbreak, research from Imagen is warning that nearly a fifth of consumers now believe that there will eventually be too many options for them to choose from resulting in people returning to traditional TV.

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Joseph O'Halloran

| 21 July 2020

Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, financial woes and concerns about the economy, cord cutting is accelerating in the US and at a greater pace in 2020 than in previous years with nearly half of all US TV households saying now they stream more free TV since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak according to the latest Roku annual Cord-Cutting Study.

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| 20 July 2020

Even though it does not expect their ad funded online video revenue to offset the systematic decline in linear advertising revenue in the near term, an Ampere Analysis study has revealed European broadcasters are no longer playing catch-up when it comes to first run VOD content.