Industry News

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Google: Still Going Gangbusters - Business Week, 4/20/2007
Will the Google juggernaut ever stop rolling? Judging from the search giant's first-quarter performance, nobody had better bet on it... (read more)

Half of DVR Users Skip Ads, Study Says - Neilsen Media Research, 5/31/2007
More than half of digital video recorder users fast-forwarded through commercials while watching prime-time network fare, according to the first study of how many DVR users actually watch ads. This month, Neilsen Media Research began measuring how habits have changed in the estimated 17% of American homes that own DVRs... (read more)

53% of DVR Owners Skip Commercials - Jupiter Research Press Release, 5/4/2006
JupiterResearch has found that 53% of online Digital Video Recorder (DVR) subscribers used their DVRs to skip commercials. If these DVR households skip commercials 100% of the time, the cable and broadcast TV advertising revenue potentially at risk in 2006 would be $8billion of the $74 billion TV advertising market... (read more)

250 Million DVR Owners by 2011 - ABI Research, 10/11/2006
Network-based personal video recording (nPVR) stands as a technology that could radically change pricing metrics, advertising, and content distribution on video networks. Once the technology is proven and content providers sign on—according to a new study from ABI Research—nPVR will help to fuel the overall digital video recording (DVR) market, which will grow from about 20 million subscribers last year to more than 250 million in 2011... (read more)

Cable Overtakes DBS in DVR Penetration - Linda Haugsted, Multichannel News, 7/17/2007
Carmel Group: Tally Stands at 52% for Cable, 38% for DBS
Cable providers have taken over as the top provider of residential digital-video-recorder service, a crown held by direct-broadcast satellite providers just last year, according to a study released this week by The Carmel Group... (read more)