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Kagan Research

Kagan on S&P Capital IQ Pro provides extensive information on 17M+ companies operating in the global media & telecom industry. It is the leading resource for understand the industry, combining data on companies, networks, broadcasting, wireless and sports media.

Our Global Media & Telecom Coverage

3,500+ 

Alternative and Proprietary Asset Level Metrics

8,600+ 

US Broadcast Stations and TV Networks

1,000+ 

Pay-TV, Broadband, Telecom, and Mobile Operators

1,700+

OTT service providers

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End-to-end intelligence on a single platform

Media & Telecom Assets

Stay ahead of the curve with sub-sector granularity by accessing detailed insights on TV networks, towers, broadcast stations, film box office, sports rights, streaming, and more.

Company Analytics

Evaluate media & telecom companies with deep financials, estimates, credit risk metrics, transaction data, transcripts and AI-powered document viewer.

News & Research

Leverage our global TMT news offering to sharpen your understanding of important developments.

Visualization Tools

Visualize assets, including TV station signal reach, broadband/video footprint, wireless licenses and more with our user-friendly visualization tools.


  • Research Media and Telecom Companies
  • Evaluate global operators with industry-specific revenue and subscription metrics
  • Assess and compare industry specific metrics on a country and regional level
  • Appraise media & telecom assets
  • Visualize US media & broadband subscriber footprint by operator
  • Stay ahead of global media & telecom trends

Media and Telecom Insights, Informed by World-Class Data and Analysts

  • Evaluate the performance of media and telecom companies by using our fundamentals, regulatory data, and private company financials to conduct due diligence. Our in-depth financial data coverage delivers over 5,000 individual data items.
  • Leverage quantitative and qualitative criteria such as M&A, earnings estimates, credit ratings, and people summaries of companies and media & telecom assets to support security selection.
  • Stay ahead of your competitors with custom alerts that would notify you of their latest news and key developments on transactions, corporate actions, product announcements, potential red flags, and M&A transactions.

Media and Telecom Insights, Informed by World-Class Data and Analysts

  • Conduct peer-comparable analysis using detailed subscriber and revenue metrics for broadband, mobile, pay-tv, online video, and wireline voice. 
  • Examine historical performance trends to gauge the overall health of a given segment across sets of operators. 
  • Save time by conducting robust data analysis with just a few clicks, eliminating the need to gather comparable metrics that require a solid understanding of operators' financial reporting differences.

Media and Telecom Insights, Informed by World-Class Data and Analysts

  • Gain a comprehensive view of the global broadband, mobile, pay-tv, online video economics in over 75 countries with our country media & telecom aggregates, providing historical analysis, and 7-year forecasts.
  • Benchmark a market to relevant industry aggregates such as subscriptions, penetration/market share, subscription net additions, Revenue, ARPU and affordability. 
  • Interpret constantly changing market conditions in Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and North America leveraging the analytical tools. 

Media and Telecom Insights, Informed by World-Class Data and Analysts

  • Reinforce your media & telecom asset valuations using Kagan asset-level models for TV Networks, US Broadcast and Radio Stations, Film, and Wireless Licenses. 
  • Benchmark the financial performance, distribution scope, and affiliate fee metrics of TV Networks, leveraging Kagan's world-class TV Network cash flow models. 
  • Conduct peer-comparable analysis using detailed valuation metrics, such as M&A data with station-level valuations and cash flow multiples, along with 5-year advertising and retrains revenue projections down to the station level, including sub-fee estimates.
  • Examine the economics of traditional forms of video distribution and assess the level of impact the streaming transition has on these assets. Utilize overlap maps of stations with consumer demographics for deeper insights on TV audience. 

Media and Telecom Insights, Informed by World-Class Data and Analysts

Analyze US media & broadband footprints and subscriber market share

  • Perform effective market and competitor analyses with our US MediaCensus tool. 
  • Analyze broadband and video subscriber growth and expansion 
  • Understand broadband subscriber impact by operator, by geography to develop online streaming solutions or strategies to reduce churn. 
  • Identify potential M&A targets serving key geographies
  • Uncover underserved geographies for capital investments and connectivity roadmaps.
  • Overlay demographic data to understand economic conditions across Zip, County & DMA level, providing crucial insight into end consumer characteristics.

Media and Telecom Insights, Informed by World-Class Data and Analysts

  • Understand the latest media & telecom market trends across the globe with our daily news and proprietary research insights.
  • Gather real-time updates on global media and telecom trends. Our editorial coverage includes significant financial developments for media & telecom companies across the globe, including major news developments of the top media & telecom companies.
  • Access macroeconomic data on the Purchasing Manager Index (PMI), inflation, GDP, yield charts, and other major economic indicators that may impact your investment strategies in the media & telecom sector.

Meet our industry analysts

A strategy is only as solid as the research it's built on. That’s why our solutions start with data, news, and insight from thought leaders of Kagan, a research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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MediaCensus
Understand the U.S. Broadband & Video Universe

MediaCensus Broadband & Video provides a comprehensive analysis of operators within the U.S. broadband and video industry, and allows users to analyze subscriber market share, operator coverage, broadband speed, and technology type data. Current coverage includes 1,200+ broadband, and 750+ video operators with subscriber estimates at the Zip, County and DMA® (Designated Market Area) levels updated quarterly:

  • Benchmark peer subscriber and geography health.
  • Analyze operator subscriber churn and additions by geography.
  • Leverage speed and technology data by operator and market to influence infrastructure expenditures.
  • Evaluate operator health in key geographies and broadband subscriber categories over time.

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Our Research Coverage

Mobile

  • Identify top mobile operators in key markets, growth projections, operator strategy and market share.
  • Coverage includes subscribers, revenue, ARPU, technology penetration, 5G, spectrum and towers and small cells, including tower owners and deals.


Broadband and Pay TV

  • Assess market structure and subscriber and revenue projections for 85+ global markets covering cable, DSL, fiber, fixed wireless and satellite platforms and distribution. 
  • Understand top operators and their strategies in key markets, including OTT video integration, broadband speeds, fixed mobile convergence and bundling, virtual multichannel and M&A.
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Our Research Coverage

Over the Top Video (OTT)

  • Assess the multichannel and OTT landscape at the operator and market level to support sales, marketing, CRM and product design. 
  • Coverage includes operator ARPU, subscriber estimates, and market projections.


US MediaCensus

  • Understand the US video and broadband subscriber landscape at the ZIP code level, by speed and by operator, to support sales, marketing, CRM and product design.


Global Advertising

  • Compare ad expenditure by medium and market. The data includes three-year ad expenditure forecasts by medium, cinema, internet, magazine, newspaper, outdoor, radio, and TV for 80+ countries.


Film & TV Programming

  • Determine programming line ups and costs to help shape contracts and strategy.
  • Keep track of box office revenue including negative cost to understand successful releases with our global film box office revenue database and original vs. acquired content breakdown


TV Networks/Broadcast

  • Assess financial performance of TV networks in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific. 
  • Project subscribers and revenues to help shape your content strategy.
  • Understand carriage by geography and package composition. 
  • Analyze revenue trends and household reach for US TV broadcast stations and owners.
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Our Research Coverage

Consumer Technology

  • Consumer IoT, Gaming, Metaverse and Streaming OS ecosystems; Broadband infrastructure technology; Global connected consumer devices by region, and OS; and Consumer-focused software platforms.
    • Data and coverage includes vendor market shares and supply chain and technology impacts and key player updates.
    • Reliable measures of technology adoption and vendor performance supporting sales, marketing and client retention strategies and product roadmaps. 
    • Understand technology vendor market share and business momentum to source potential acquisitions and partnerships.


Consumer Insights

  • Surveys help identify local media consumption habits, content preferences and price sensitivities in key markets.


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