We're halfway through 2013, the year the Economist claimed would herald the rise of quick data, jumping to replace big data as the "next big thing" in commerce. "Quick", "big" or otherwise, over the past six months, data has been centre sta...

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SA, AAAI and IBF said to have agreed to work basis 'confidential' weekly ratings in absolute numbers, to be released from 25 July ...

LONDON: Europe was the only region to report a fall in advertising expenditure in the first quarter of 2013, while the rest of the world saw either marginal increases or remained flat, according to new figures from Nielsen.The measurement company's...

The number of pay TV households (analog and digital) reached 772 million in 2012, up from 585 million in 2008, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. Asia Pacific increased by 126 million - two thirds of the global additions - bringing i...

Advertising spend is continuing to decline across Europe, according to Nielsen's quarterly Global AdView Pulse report. European ad spend was down -4.4% in Q1 2013, which the report puts down to the weight of the region's economic problems. Nielsen ex...

A new report from Digital TV Research has found that in 2012, on-demand television generated just 2.3% of the $184 billion total for pay TV revenues. However, the on-demand proportion is forecast to grow to 2.9% of the $203 billion total in 2018. Th...

As TV viewing shifts to broadband and non-TV video platforms, video viewing will shift away from pay TV environments and towards app-enabled secondary screens, according to a new report from The Diffusion Group. The report, which has been derived fro...

New research from IHS has forecast that set-top box shipments will reach record highs over the next few years. According to the latest Set-Top Box Market Monitor report from IHS Global, shipments of STBs used for cable, satellite, terrestrial and Internet...