Television Intelligence: About this service and how to subscribe

TV intelligence provides on-line access to constantly updated and detailed company and market level data analysis on the pay and free television industry across 65 countries worldwide. Our data covers ALL operators and platforms in ALL countries, providing the only truly comprehensive source of television market intelligence available anywhere in the world.

Our highly granular data is built up company-by-company, platform-by-platform, to provide extremely detailed information on both operators and markets. Our market-level data is the result of painstaking data collection and checking processes, with all numbers underpinned by company-level data and individual company-level forecasts.

We understand our markets intimately and have long-standing relationships with operators in all of the 65 markets that we cover. Our market knowledge means we can always be sure to compare like-with-like, avoiding the definitional pit-falls that all-too-often lead to invalid data comparisons. We update the data constantly (often within an hour of new information becoming available) and adjust our market forecasts in real time, meaning clients can be sure to always have immediate access to the latest market intelligence.

TV Intelligence covers:

» Free and pay satellite television
» cable television
» free analogue TV

» IPTV
» DTT
» premium 'over the top' channel services

The metrics provided for each operator include:

» analogue TV subscribers
» digital TV subscribers
» free homes
» pay homes
» HDTV subscribers and homes
» DVR subscribers
» on-demand (VOD, nVOD, FVOD) enabled homes
» revenues from basic subscription TV, extended basic subscription TV and premium subscription TV
» revenues from VOD, nVOD and SVOD on-demand TV, also by genre

» revenues from broadband Internet services, telephony services and triple-play
» ARPU from basic subscription TV, extended basic subscription TV and premium subscription TV
» VOD, SVOD and nVOD on-demand TV ARPUs
» broadband Internet services, telephony services and triple-play ARPUs
» sports and movie rights deals between channels and operators and the content owners
» ownership and shareholders of all active pay TV companies in every market

In contrast to some of our competitors, we cover every active operator, not just those which report data. With TV Intelligence you always get the complete picture.

Comprehensive, constantly up-to-date forecasts

Our company and market level data is forecast five years and includes a minimum ten-year historical data run. We forecast all metrics individually before summing company-totals and then deriving market-level numbers. This hugely comprehensive methodology is unrivalled in the industry and means we can trace and analyse market changes at a level that other research providers cannot match. The individual company-level forecast for every key metric is always available to users.

Company and operator data

All operator and market-level data is broken down and split between analogue and digital distribution as well as pay and free TV business models. Additional services such as High-Definition TV (HDTV), DVR services, telephony and Internet are also split out for every operator that we cover. We take into account multi-set usage providing all summary data in two forms: "primary set" and total. This allows users to distinguish between the main form of television in the home and secondary forms, where used. The level of detail we collect at a company level provides an intrinsic 'sense-check' on all our data. Because we are covering all companies active in the market and have a detailed understanding of the total market, our forecasts have a strong foundation.

Country-level data

Our country-level data is provided in a standard grid. We've done the hard work and normalised all of the data so that every single metric is consistently defined and presented across all markets. Users can always be sure that the number they are using is wholly comparable with the same metric in any of the other 65 markets within the service. All of the detail in all of the operators within any given country is included within the country grids and all data is summarised in comprehensive, easy-to-use tables that give a big-picture market overview. Nothing is left out.

Regional data

We also present all of our data in single-metric tables that show a single measure for all 65 countries that we cover with a minimum 15-year data span that includes five-year forecasts. The invaluable tables provide a quick means of comparing numerous markets in one quick view as well as giving regional totals for Western Europe, Eastern Europe, European Union (including all 27 member states), North America, South and Central America, Asia-Pacific and Africa and the Middle East.

Company ranking

We provide tables that rank key company-level metrics (like digital subscribers, HDTV subscribers, revenue) for all of the companies in all of the 65 markets that we cover. The data includes histroic and forecast data runs and allows users to rank the hundreds of companies included within the service by key performance indicators.

The analyst team

Included in an Intelligence subscription

By pay subscription/s:

Contact Us