TV customers have a high rate of starting and stopping many new OTT services.
Parks Associates says that with the exception of Netflix and Amazon Prime, OTT services experience churn rates exceeding 50% of their subscriber base.
Research also shows that more than 50% of U.S. OTT subscription homes subscribe to multiple OTT video services. Of these multi-OTT households, 81% use Netflix plus some other service or combination of services -- mostly Amazon or Hulu.
From the article "OTT Churn Rates Pass 50%" by Wayne Friedman.
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