Eglantine Leclabart is now the Global Pay-TV Marketing Director of Canal+ and also joins the Executive Committee. Previously, Leclabart held the position of Deputy Managing Director of Canal+ France in charge of Marketing and Digital. In her new role, she will be responsible for: developing a global marketing vision to support various territories; harmonising performance […]
Aziz Diallo has been appointed General Manager of Pay-TV French-speaking Africa. He will report to David Mignot, Managing Director of Canal+ Africa. Diallo began his career in 2004 with Alcatel in the international sales department. In 2007, he joined Greenwich Consulting as a senior consultant, before joining MTN, the African telco, two years later as […]
Portugal closed 2024 with 4.7 million pay-TV subscribers, a net addition of only 69,000 over the past year (+1.5 per cent), the slowest growth rate since 2006. The penetration rate for the service among Portugal’s households reached 97.1 per cent, according to data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom). Residential subscribers make up 88.5 per […]
Parks Associates’ Home Services Dashboard, an ongoing research project analysing consumer surveys of 8,000 US Internet households, reveals ARPU for traditional services bundled with home Internet increased in Q3 2024 compared to the same quarter in 2023. Tested traditional service bundles include mobile plans, pay-TV with live TV channels, home phone, and professionally monitored security. […]
At the end of Q3 2024, 4.6 million subscribers accessed pay-TV services in Portugal, a 1.7 per cent increase year-on-year – the slowest growth since 2006. According to data published by the National Communications Authority (Anacom), the pay-TV penetration rate reached 43.6 per cent, up from 43.4 per cent in Q2 2024. Optical fibre (FTTH/B) […]
Romanian telco operator DIGI has launched its pay-TV service in Spain offering over 100 TV channels for €7 a month. Combined fibre optic broadband and pay-TV will cost €17 a month, or current FTTH subscribers can just pay an additional €7 for the TV service. DIGI TV will offer cinema, TV series, sports, documentariesm music […]
Parks Associates’ latest Home Services Dashboard reveals that US consumers who do not bundle their home services reported an increase in their monthly spending from Q3 2023 to Q3 2024. The research firm’s consumer survey of 8,000 US internet households reveals that the monthly average spend among consumers without bundles was $100 (€96.08) for mobile […]
Two-thirds of global sports executives are concerned about the relevance of live sports as more younger fans gravitate towards highlights, documentaries, and short-form videos from fans, teams, and players over watching live games on video, according to Altman Solon’s 2024 Global Sports Survey. The survey, which measures the habits of 3,000 global sports fans, reveals […]
Sport1 is discontinuing its pay-TV channels SPORT1+ and eSPORTS1 at the end of the year. The content of the channels is to be maintained by Sportdigital TV Sende- und Produktions on the distribution platforms via Sportdigital1+ and eSportsONE. The discontinuation of the pay-TV channels of Sport1 and the associated transaction with Sportdigital is part of […]
The growing adoption of 4G/5G services and steady growth in fibre broadband subscriptions will drive the total telecom and pay-TV services revenue in Indonesia at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.5 per cent from $15.1 billion (€13.9bn) in 2023 to $18.8 billion in 2028, forecasts GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s Indonesia […]