Screen Digest Reports: Television, Film and Cinema, Video and DVD, Broadband media, Mobile media and Games

India Races To Analogue Switch-Off | 02 Sep 10 tags › | This report takes an in-depth look at the Indian regulator's (TRAI) proposed timeline for switching off analogue cable signals. The pros and cons of its (regulators) recommendations, the possibility of a 2013 switch off being approved by the government, and the opportunities that the ASO offers for both foreign and local players alike are all examined.

Games Market Monitor - Hardware Q2 2010 | 30 Aug 10 tags › | Year-on-year hardware volumes on a global basis are down just over 20 per cent for the second quarter of 2010, underscoring the fact that a number of platforms are now in decline. The console cycle is maturing and, as is typical, it is beginning to wane. Sony's PlayStation 3 is the only TV console to experience a major worldwide uptick for the period, while Nintendo's DS handhelds drop swiftly, em...

Market Monitor: Digital and 3D market trends in Western Europe Q2 2010 | 26 Aug 10 tags › | Total digital screens rose by a further 16.5% in Q2 2010, following a similar hike in Q1, as the economic benefits of 3D continue to provide the major impetus to upgrade to digital. A total of 3,875 3D screens were active at end H1 2010 in Western Europe, accounting for 73% of the total digital screen base, a higher ratio than three months prior (Q1). Over 65% of the active digital 3D systems were...

Market Monitor: 'Big 8' European Broadcasters | 24 Aug 10 tags › | This quarterly report combines Advertising Intelligence data and analyst commentary covering key European broadcasters' advertising revenues and ad revenue prospects for 2009-2014.

Market Monitor: Advertising in the Big Five | 24 Aug 10 tags › | This quarterly report combines Advertising Intelligence data and analyst commentary covering economic prospects and advertising revenue forecasts for 2010 and 2011.

Market Monitor: TV advertising in CEE H1 2010 | 23 Aug 10 tags › | Screen Digest has published the second edition of its biannual market monitor on TV advertising in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The report analyses the impact of the financial and economic crisis on CEE TV advertising markets and assesses the potential for 2010 and 2011 recovery. In addition, the report benchmarks crucial development indicators for CEE TV advertising markets, assessing their ...

Mobile Market Monitor - Games Q2 2010 | 18 Aug 10 tags › | EA Mobile continues to lead the Western mobile games market with revenues of $52m for Q2 2010. Despite achieving growth for the 12th consecutive quarter, Q2 saw revenue growth slow to 4 per cent, the lowest since Q3 2007. Gameloft remained in second place in the Western market with revenues of $42.7m. Glu Mobile continued to decline, with revenues dropping to $16m, its lowest total since Q1 2007.

CBS-Comcast Deal: Business as usual or TV Everywhere? | 13 Aug 10 tags › | The recent Comcast-CBS retransmission agreement adds a major content partner to the Comcast-Time Warner TV Everywhere initiative, the operator-centric multiplatform distribution model. Early analysis that presented this deal as a marriage of convenience misses its strategic importance. This deal represents a potentially game-changing compromise between industry leaders seeking to recast online dis...

European Video Market Treads Water | 13 Aug 10 tags › | This is an overview of the European video market in 2009 and Screen Digest's latest analysis on the market's outlook for 2010. In 2009 total European video volumes sales recorded their first ever year-on-year decline despite growth in Blu-ray Disc sales. Other areas of growth are digital video and TV VOD but so far these sectors only account for a small part of the European market. However, prelim...

Games Market Monitor: Social Gaming in H1 2010 | 12 Aug 10 tags › | The social gaming market exploded in 2009. Despite having only just emerged from such an intensely formative phase, social gaming in the first half of 2010 has brought with it some strict lessons about consolidation, platform ownership and software maturity. Screen Digest looks at these developments, largely through examination of Facebook as a gaming platform in H1 2010.

The Global Trade in Audio-visual Archives | 07 Aug 10 tags › | The global trade in audio-visual archive content generates Euro 364m in revenue a year and has grown in value at a compound annual growth rate of nearly five per cent over the past five years according to findings of a new study from Screen Digest and trade bodies FOCAL International and FIAT/IFTA. The customer base for audiovisual archive content has grown rapidly in recent years with the tradit...

Slow Start for Spanish Online TV | 04 Aug 10 tags › | Online TV revenues in Spain were just a sixth of those in Germany in 2009, and a fifth of those in France. Disarray in the traditional TV business in Spain has hampered online efforts from local broadcasters, too pre-occupied with a steep decline in TV advertising revenue to develop their online strategies. The catch-up content that drives online TV consumption elsewhere has been slower to prolife...

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