Multimedia Research Group (MRG) this week gave out the names of the first place companies in its new IPTV Market Leader Report, which tracks the top IPTV vendors in 24 sub-sectors. The report takes in the installed base in over 570 IPTV Service Providers worldwide.
The report demonstrates the extreme volatility in the IPTV industry, with half the number one market leaders changing position since the previous report. ‘The greatest volatility was in Video-On-Demand, where all but one of the number ones changed,’ states Len Feldman, IPTV Analysis Director. ‘The least volatility was in Video Headends, where not a single number one changed since the last report.’
The causes of some of this volatility include M&As such as that of Alcatel-Lucent, large increases in subscriptions such as at Verzion, France Telecom and Telefonica and the commercialization of in-house software, as seen with PCCW’s Cascade.
About 300 of 570 Service Providers examined are US Independent Operators, but the biggest market share of subscribers come from the European market. The report project growth based on each service provider’s current customer acquisition rate.
We thought we’d give a plug to the MRG IPTV service because we are also working with MRG on Mobile TV services. The price of this 59-page report is $3,995 USD for a printed copy, and $5,200 USD for a PDF Departmental License and it is free for subscribers to the IPTV Tracking Service.