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IABM Regional Report - Latin America Published January 2019 Contents Introduction Report Contents and Structure Market Overview Business Environment The Broadcast & Media Industry Overview Key Stakeholders Media Technology Demand Drivers Transition to Digital Broadcasting Transition to HD and UHD OTT and Multi-Platform Delivery Introduction IABM Business Intelligence (BI) Regional Reports provide IABM members with insight into the latest broadcast and media industry developments for a specific region. Over the course of each year, these reports build into a full overview of all the major regional markets around the world. Report Contents and Structure The analysis is undertaken by our Head of Insight & Analysis, Lorenzo Zanni, Principal Analyst, Riikka Koponen and Research Analyst, Chiara Raucci. The report includes the latest news and research findings across a variety of topics, including: Business Environment Broadcast and Media Technology Industry Media Technology Demand Drivers Market Overview Business Environment According to the IMF in October 2018, annual GDP growth in Latin America and the Caribbean was 1.2% In the current scenario, there is a series of internal and external factors that conditioned the evolution of the level of indebtedness of the region in 2018 In 2018, the inflation rate in Latin America (LATAM)...
December 2018Regional Focus: Middle East & Africa (MEA)Contents:(Click the titles to see individual articles)Global Business EnvironmentThe Media BusinessMedia Business HighlightsSports: The Jewel in the Broadcaster’s CrownNews: Keeping UpNew Content: The Short-Form BubbleBuying TrendsThe State of the Broadcast & Media IndustryMedia Technology Special: Artificial IntelligenceWhat is AI?AI in Broadcast & MediaRegional Focus: Middle East & Africa (MEA)Business EnvironmentMiddle East and North AfricaThe Broadcast & Media IndustryOverviewKey stakeholdersMedia Technology Demand DriversTransition to Digital BroadcastingTransition to HD and UHDOTT and Multi-Platform Delivery
This article is from The IABM Business Intelligence Digest from December 2017. The full report can be viewed here We examine specific trends driving broadcast and media technology spending in Middle East and Africa. The trends we discuss are: - Transition to Digital Broadcasting - Transition to HD and UHD - OTT and Multi-Platform Delivery The transition to digital broadcasting is a government-led initiative that has encountered many problems in the Middle East and Africa. The transitions to HD, UHD and multi-platform delivery are instead natural evolutions of broadcasters’ infrastructures. Transition to Digital Broadcasting The transition to digital broadcasting in the Middle East and Africa is still underway as only a few countries have completed it. In the Middle East, these are Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, while in Africa only Morocco, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanzania have completed the transition to digital broadcasting. Despite the global deadline set by the International Telecommunications Union, of June 17 2015 to cease analog transmissions, the transition has been sluggish. The chart below shows a detailed map of the transition status of countries to DTT in the Middle East and Africa. [caption id="attachment_63114" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Source: ITU[/caption] As in the case of...
This article is from The IABM Business Intelligence Digest from September 2018. The full report can be viewed here The deployment UHD television in Europe is ongoing. More dedicated channels have been launched between 2017 and 2018. Despite the take-up in consumer spending on UHD TV sets – Europe is expected by iDATE to have over 100m by 2020 – adoption by broadcasters has not met initial expectations. However, based on UHD Forum’s data updated in April 2018, we can see that half of the services launched are European initiatives. This shows that, although UHD take-up is still slower than expected, Western European countries show an advance on other regions when it comes to actual UHD deployments. However, considering the number of services compared to all the national markets and the number of existing channels, UHD so far remains a niche market for Pay-TV operators. Until 2017, broadcasters had not launched large and sustain-able services, due to low expected return on investment. However, they had experimented with 4K/UHD at some special live events. But in 2018, we can see an acceleration of UHD initiatives, both for sport and music concerts and also beyond. The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia...
This article is from The IABM Business Intelligence Digest from September 2018. The full report can be viewed here In most European countries, the transition to digital broadcasting has been completed. Some Eastern European countries are still in the process of transitioning; tender postponement and rescheduling announcements have been recorded in the first half of 2018. Ukraine had originally planned to begin its transition to digital broadcasting at the end of 2017 and complete it in 2018; the National Council announced in March 2018 that it had put the completion back to April-May 2019, but it will follow the initial 3-stage switch-off plan; the first phase will take place “in a specific area in August 2018, the second one throughout the country (except from the Ukraine’s First Channel, some local broadcasters and analogue channels in the territory under the control of Russian military forces and pro-Russian separatists and some border areas in January 2019), the third 3-4 months later.” Local DTT multiplexes will appear after the completion of the transition. In May 2018, Greece granted temporary nationwide DTT licences to Alpha, Ant1, Epsilon TV, Star and Skai. During 2017 and 2018, few digital terrestrial deployments have taken place in Europe....
