Tablet adoption continues to drive consumer demand for mobile video services. A recent European survey by Orange found that close to 40 per cent of European tablet users are watching TV shows on tablets. In addition, Boston Consulting Group research found that tablet users around the world spend 35 per cent more time consuming video, [...]
Online video in Europe: Consumption in Europe has increased by 33% for the 6-month period ending in September 2011. In September, 226 million users across 7 EU nations – UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Turkey – on average consumed 20 hours of online video per user. Read more Online video in France: Based [...]
Multiscreen video is proving itself to be no passing fancy. We have believed this for a long time and now there are some serious market indicators starting to back us up. So we continue to ask: the question “Are you ready for multiscreen video?” In fact, last week we hosted a webinar to talk about [...]
OTT TV Consumption: TVGuide’s Fall 2011 survey has a number of great insights regarding TV consumption. Over 55% of US survey respondents watch TV online and 62% are watching more online content than they did a year ago. Heavy online video users make up 15% of the population and view more than 6 hours of [...]
The focus of this year’s CTIA Enterprise and Applications show was on mobile payments and mobile health. As a result, the hot topic of mobile video did not get lot of attention. However, over-the-top (OTT) video did make it into discussions as panelists talked about the increasing competition in the tablet and smartphone market. One [...]
By Brad Smith — Wireless Week SAN DIEGO—On one of the hills in the northern San Diego suburbs is an anonymous-looking office park. Hidden behind the plain buildings is a satellite dish farm, the only clue to what’s inside. This is one of the most sophisticated network operations centers in the world, outfitted some years [...]
At the TVNext Conference in San Jose I was very encouraged by the amount of discussion among content providers regarding video advertising on mobile TV. This is one of the most significant signs that mobile video is becoming a truly mainstream service. When QuickPlay was founded more than seven years ago, many companies thought the [...]
Toronto is a wonderful city for film lovers. The city hosts numerous film festivals throughout the year, with the crown jewel being the internationally renowned Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Like many people I had the desire to attend the festival and to fully participate in the TIFF experience but I was unable to do [...]
We at QuickPlay Media would like to acknowledge the role Steve Jobs played in changing our industry. We thank Jobs, and Apple’s remarkable engineers and designers, for their visionary work, which has changed the media landscape forever. Today, companies like QuickPlay are benefiting from the explosive growth in video consumption, generated in good measure by [...]
Here are few interesting numbers from the world of online video that have emerged in the last few weeks. These numbers reflect the strong growth in online video engagement, advertising in online video, and the continuing market dominance of Apple’s iPad in the tablet device category. Americans watched an average of 18 hours of online [...]
