Amazon’s decision to enter the media streamer business has paid off, according to a study from Parks Associates. The research firm found that Amazon’s Fire TV and Fire TV Stick took third place in U.S. device shipments last year, overtaking Apple TV. Still, Roku held onto its lead from 2013, with 34 percent of shipments, while Google’s Chromecastremained in second place with 23 percent.
From the article "Amazon reportedly beats Apple TV in 2014 as streaming video gets serious."
MUMBAI: Usage of authenticated video viewing, or TV Everywhere, reached 40% of US pay-TV consumers in 2015, up from 22% in 2013, according to new research from Parks Associates. The percentage of r...
But growing membership is harder to keep up at the same clip for all streaming services, as more and more companies launch their own online platforms. As consumers shift more of their entertainment di...
That trend, to start making customers pay to access data, dovetails with research found by Parks Associates earlier this year, which noted that new smart home security customers spend about $55, on av...
Netflix is also preparing to crackdown on illegal account sharing via new artificial intelligence software, which will be able to analyze which users are logged in and then flag shared accounts. Th...
