At its 2017 Fall event held on September 12, Apple announced a series of new products:
Apple has also distanced itself further from the original single product concept, launching two new iPhone lines.
Using Ampere Consumer data, the infographic below provides an overview of the market dynamics currently at play for smartphones, tablets and streaming boxes in seven countries across the world.
Over the course of the calendar year, the proportions of movies released that fall under each genre vary. There are a number of different seasonal effects that impact how both these proportions vary, and how the box office takings of each genre vary.
Ampere crunches social media data to look at demographic skews across fans of scripted series airing on broadcast networks, basic cable, premium TV and subscription OTT services, and finds that subscription OTT services have the best demographic balance amongst their current slate of scripted shows.
Blu-ray Disc pricing holds strong during the "50 Must See Movies Before You Grow Up" promotion across UK retailers
US streaming pay TV packages offered by virtual Multiple System Operators (vMSOs) generate almost three times the revenue per channel of traditional pay TV. Combined with lower subscriber acquisition costs for operators this should put channel owners in a strong negotiating position, although a focus on stronger brands to drive early uptake means the economics may not always stack up for pay TV providers.
Ampere chronicles some notable investments from internet giants and telecoms operators in the eSports and online gaming sector.
Though the formula for releasing new movies is well understood, as a product moves further into its life-cycle exploitation strategies used by US studios are more opaque. Analysing price changes in the context of movie windowing allows us to compere the movie exploitation strategies currently in use.
Cable operators and telcos are becoming increasingly similar in the fixed sector, as product upsell changes their revenue mix.