Over the last few years, monthly spending on streaming subscriptions has declined 25% from $90 in 2021 to $73 in 2023, according to data from Parks Associates. Increasingly, viewers are opting for ad-supported video on demand, or AVOD, and free ad-supported streaming TV, or FAST. AVOD and FAST channels include apps like Freevee, Crackle, Pluto TV, Tubi and Roku Channel.
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The growth potential was underscored by a Parks Associates survey that found almost 20 percent of U.S. broadband households own at least one smart-home device, and a lot more consumers want them. Abou...
Awareness: Voice control of smartphones is building awareness of the potential for voice control of other products, Parks Associates research director Barbara Kraus noted. “Almost 52 percent of iPh...
For her part, Parks Associates research director Barbara Kraus expects voice control will likely spread to all manner of consumer electronics in homes, cars and on the go. But “at this time, voice tec...
"Safety and security are the main drivers for consumer interest,” said Parks president Stuart Sikes. Once people get the products home, Sikes added, consumers use them frequently. Among owners of mos...
