Category Archives: Catch-Up TV

The DTT Platform – Succeeding in the Face of the SVOD Challenge

Posted on 8th May 2018 by FaridHusseini

In my previous note I discussed how 2017 was another challenging year for schedule based television in the UK, with the SVOD services (Netflix, Amazon, Now TV, etc.) in particular taking a bigger slice of the total video viewing pie, … Continue reading →

Posted in Adults 16-34, Adults 16+, Age Groups, Amazon, BARB, BARB Panel, BARB Universes, BT, BVOD, Catch-Up TV, Commercial Impacts, Cord-Cutting, Digital Switchover, DTT, DTT Only Homes, DTT Platform, Freeview, Netflix, Sky, Smart TV, SVOD, TalkTalk, Television, Total TV, Virgin Media, YouTube, YouView | 1 Comment

The Death of Television – Is it Finally Happening?

Posted on 22nd January 2018 by FaridHusseini

Although year-on-year schedule based UK television viewing, as measured by BARB’s consolidated (Live + 7-days catch-up) Total TV audience, has been in decline since 2012, it was beginning to show signs of levelling off with a very notable slowing in … Continue reading →

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Expectations versus Reality: TV Viewing by Age Group

Posted on 8th February 2016 by FaridHusseini

Over the last decade in particular, our industry has been plagued by poor predictions resulting from an overestimation of the disruptive viewing impact of technological change. To counter this, it has been suggested that any new forecast should be accompanied … Continue reading →

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Forecasting the Total TV Audience in 2020

Posted on 24th February 2015 by FaridHusseini

Annual BARB measured television viewing levels in the UK have fallen again significantly for the second year running, further highlighting the end of the exceptionally high and stable levels of Total TV viewing that were a hallmark of the new … Continue reading →

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Total TV Viewing Trends (2010 – 2013)

Posted on 6th February 2014 by FaridHusseini

Annual BARB measured television viewing levels in the UK have fallen significantly for the first time since the advent of the new BARB panel in January 2010. Having fluctuated at just over 240 minutes a day during the three year … Continue reading →

Posted in Ad-Skipping, Advertising Revenue, Adverts, BARB, Catch-Up TV, Death of Television, fast-forward, ITV, Live TV, PVR, Sky, Sky Platform, Sky Plus, Tablets, Television, Timeshifted TV, Timeshifting, Total TV, TV, Viewing, VOD | Leave a comment

House versus Downton: Timeshifting Drama

Posted on 14th December 2012 by FaridHusseini

The ease with which viewers can now timeshift their television viewing has resulted in live viewing levels in the UK dropping from 98.2 % of total consolidated (i.e. live + timeshifted combined) BARB measured TV viewing in 2006 to just … Continue reading →

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