The findings show how far-reaching streaming video services have become. About 63% of U.S. home subscribe to broadband services, and nearly half of those homes are also customers of at least one OTT service, Parks said. In addition, about 31% of broadband homes subscribe to more than one OTT service, opting to take a range of combinations of services like Netlfix, Hulu and Amazon.
Parks Associates reported these results in its OTT Video Market Tracker study. The most common combo of services is Netflix plus Amazon video, with about 12% of U.S. broadband homes choosing that mix of services.
From the article "Nearly Half Of High-Speed Homes Have Multiple OTT Services" by Daisy Whitney.
Pay-TV operators are seeing a "slow erosion of the core business," analyst Brett Sappington at Parks Associates said. "After years of attempts to be more than just a 'dumb pipe,' pay-TV operators h...
Wireless data usage is growing steadily from 2015 to 2016 as consumers shift data-heavy activities from desktop to mobile. According to Parks Associates’ latest survey data, average monthly wireless d...
The public is awakening to this new threat of big data as “Big Brother” while acknowledging all its potential benefits. We do not need many of the idiocies promoted for profit in the Internet of Thing...
Beyond that, AT&T also gets revenue by licensing those movies and TV series to other pay-TV providers and subscription Net TV services such as Netflix. "Video and entertainment will remain the key dri...
