Prime Video said in 2021 that it had over 200 million paying customers, and at the end of last year, market intelligence firm Parks Associates reported that it had the largest American subscriber base, marking the first time that any service had eclipsed Netflix in the United States.
From the article, "Apple TV+’s Focus on Quality Programming Gave It the Most Popular Streaming Originals in the Second Quarter of 2023" by Matt Tamanini.
A new study has good news and bad news for the proliferating group of subscription video-on-demand services, especially the big new ones backed by major media companies. On the one hand, consumers are...
As YouTube TV’s recent rate hike shows, these services themselves are not immune to rising programming costs. And the same traits that make streaming much less customer-hostile than cable or satellite...
On top of that, the industry churn rate—a metric used to reflect cancelled subscriptions to streaming services overall—shot up 41% in Q1, the most recent statistic available, as consumers experimented...
A Parks Associates analysis reported that SVOD churn rate dropped from 46% in third quarter 2019 to 38% in third quarter 2020. Among recent launches, the churn rate of Disney+ was at 13%, and HBO Max,...
