Worldwide pay TV revenues rocketed to US$184 billion (€141 billion) in 2012, according to new research. ...

The BBC’s global news services now reach 256m people each week – their biggest ever audience – according to new stats released by the corporation.  ...

Consumer confidence is growing across the Asia-Pacific region with political developments spurring particularly strong rises in Japan and South Korea, according to a new report.The MasterCard Index of Consumer Confidence surveyed adults during April and...

A research conducted by GfK Media & Entertainment shows that the estimated number of Americans relying exclusively on over-the-air (OTA) television broadcasting increased to 59.7 million, up from 54 million just a year ago. The percentage of TV households...

The media economy has gotten off to another slow start to the year. Ad spending in the first quarter was essentially flat to first-quarter 2012, according to numbers out this morning from Kantar Media. Spending declined by 0.1 percent from January to Ma...

Figures for gross advertising expenditure in Indonesia showed a sharp rise in the first quarter, which observers expected would be maintained during the rest of the year.Adspend was up 23% to Rp 23.2tr according to Nielsen, the market research company....

Women in Asia can be classified into five distinct segments according to their motivations, aspirations and attitudes as revealed by NBCUniversal’s latest foray in understanding the female pay-television audience. For the first time ever, these five...

A CASBAA spokesman commented on the favorable evolution of the situation in Vietnam’s pay-TV market in recent weeks. Following a period of confusion after new pay-TV regulations came into force on May 15, most international TV channels (including major...

Amid concern over high household debt, IPG Mediabrands, a leading media agency, sees advertisers and product owners suspending or cutting their budgets for some media channels in the rest of this year, resulting in only a 5-per-cent increase in...

ZenithOptimedia and Magna Global have revised their global advertising spend forecasts down and are predicting growth of 3.5 per cent and 3 per cent respectively in 2013. The ZenithOptimedia figure is 0.4 percentage points below its prediction at t...