Worldwide (not region-specific) Digital TV News

AR/VR panel shipments to reach 119 million units by 2028
May 15, 2023 – According to DSCC, display panel shipments for VR will increase by 17.6% this year, lower than previously forecast. Shipments are now expected to grow from 13.6M units in 2022 to 16M units in 2023.
News categories: DSCC, Guillaume Chansin, Digital TV, Market Research, Metaverse, Worldwide

PikoTV partners with MwareTV for complete live TV streaming solution
May 15, 2023 – MwareTV has formed a partnership with PikoTV to offer a complete, cloud-hosted service to deliver and manage a rich live TV channel offering available across multiple end user devices.
News categories: MwareTV, PikoTV, Sander Kerstens, Ali Kizil, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Streaming, Worldwide

NPAW introduces anti-account sharing and playback-resuming solutions
May 10, 2023 – NPAW has introduced anti-account sharing for OTT services to its suite of analytics apps. A bookmarking solution supporting playback-resumption across devices has also been added.
News categories: NPAW, Ruben Senor-Megias, Big Data, CABSAT, Content Protection, Digital TV, Streaming, UX, Worldwide

Global SVOD subscriptions to be 400 million higher by 2028
May 15, 2023 – Digital TV Research expects global SVOD subscriptions to increase by 400 million between 2022 and 2028 to reach 1.76 billion, revealing that there is still plenty of SVOD growth left.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Simon Murray, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, Subscribers, Worldwide

CTV now accounts for over half of global video impressions
May 11, 2023 – CTV now accounts for 51% of global video impression share, an increase of 10.9% compared to 2021 - with mobile and desktop steadily declining - according to a report from Innovid (NYSE: CTV).
News categories: Innovid, Dave Helmreich, Advertising, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, Worldwide

SES reaches 369 million homes worldwide
May 10, 2023 – SES has announced results from its annual Satellite Monitor market research. SES now delivers over 8,000 channels to 369 million TV homes worldwide, an increase of three million over the previous year.
News categories: SES S.A, Norbert Hölzle, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Worldwide

Spending on telecom services and pay TV to grow by 2.0% next year
May 5, 2023 – Worldwide spending on Telecom Services and Pay TV Services reached $1,478 billion in 2022, increasing by 2.2% Y-o-Y, according to IDC. IDC expects an increase of 2.0% next year to reach a total of $1,541 billion.
News categories: IDC, Kresimir Alic, Digital TV, Market Research, Worldwide

Xperi signs second top-10 Smart TV OEM for TiVo OS
May 9, 2023 – Xperi (NYSE: XPER) has announced results for the period ended March 31, 2023. In the quarter Xperi signed an agreement with a second top-10 Smart TV OEM to integrate the TiVo Operating System (TiVo OS) into their TV lineup.
News categories: Xperi, Jon Kirchner, Automotive, Big Data, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Smart TV, TV OS, USA, Worldwide

Warner Bros. Discovery adds 1.6 million DTC subscribers in 1Q 2023
May 5, 2023 – Warner Bros. Discovery (Nasdaq: WBD) has reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. Direct-to-Consumer subscribers totalled 97.6 million at period-end, up 1.6 million versus the end of Q4 2022.
News categories: Warner Bros. Discovery, Digital TV, Results, Streaming, Subscribers, Worldwide