Industry Updates

Roku Wins The OTT Streaming Device Shipments Race 24 August 2015

  Four brands – Amazon, Apple, Google, and Roku – accounted for 86% of all streaming media devices sold to US broadband households in 2014, Parks Associates report calculates. This market concentration, said the analyst, will force new entrants to … Continue reading

TV Streaming Displacing Beach Reading And Tanning This Summer 24 August 2015

  This summer, the average American has been more likely to flip on Netflix than to flip the pages of a book. Summertime rituals are skewing toward binge-watching TV series on video on demand streaming services — and away from such … Continue reading

Answering The Biggest Question About Cord Cutting 24 August 2015

  Cord cutting is real. Now, the biggest question everybody wants to answer isn’t whether Americans are ditching the pay-TV bundle for OTT video services like Netflix, but simply how fast the transition will occur. Traditional media stocks got crushed earlier this … Continue reading

Streaming Revolution Hurting Cable And Broadcast Networks Alike 24 August 2015

  The digital streaming TV revolution hasn’t just wreaked havoc on broadcasters. It’s hit cable television, too. And Wall Street is noticing. The summer season was once cable’s most important time of the year. Broadcasters like CBS, NBC, Fox and … Continue reading

Viewer Choices, Reviews, Ratings Impact Streaming Media 24 August 2015

  Millennials prefer SVOD (subscription video on demand service) and OTT video (over-the-top) TV watching to traditional TV, cable, or satellite viewing. NPD Group’s Connected Home Intelligence Report reported that adults aged 18-34 make up the only age group to … Continue reading