A new study from Parks Associates reveals that a whopping 43% of households are planning to switch to vMVPDs this year, a category I’m willing to bet few of them were even aware of a year or two ago, a supposition backed up by a further finding from the same study that reports 17% of current vMVPD subscribers made the switch during the last 12 months.
From the article "Wolk’s Week in Review: Is anyone paying for Flixes, vMVPDs get hot (for now)" by Alan Wolk.
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