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Tag: SVOD
Broadband News: 10 Questions We Hope to See Answered in 2019
2018 was a big year in broadband news and 2019 is shaping up to be a big one as well. The past year saw the government take some major actions toward ensuring that all Americans…
AT&T’s Video Strategy Is Extremely Complex: Can They Pull It Off?
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson outlined a complex AT&T video strategy today at an investor conference. That strategy involves five, maybe six, different video options, in an attempt to satisfy a fractured market segment. Is that…
AT&T Netflix Killer to Debut Next Year: Three WarnerMedia SVOD Offerings on Tap for 2019
AT&T WarnerMedia plans to launch three subscription video on demand (SVOD) OTT services in the fourth quarter of 2019 that the company will market directly to consumers. The AT&T WarnerMedia SVOD offerings will include an…
Pay TV Trends: 34% of Subscribers Changed Service in the Past Year
How people get their video entertainment is quite fluid, according to a pay TV trends report from Parks Associates. The report says that 34% of pay-TV subscribers in the U.S. changed their service during the…
Report: U.S. TV Households Have More Connected TV Devices Than Pay-TV STBs
Seventy-four percent of U.S. TV households have one or more devices connected to the Internet, according to new smart TV research from Leichtman Research Group. This compares with 65% in 2016, 44% in 2013 and…
Report: Netflix Takes HBO Now to the Woodshed, Rated Best SVOD Offering
Netflix continues to provide more of what viewers want than competing subscription video on demand (SVOD) services, according to a new report about the best SVOD offering from customer experience research firm UserTesting. Netflix scored…
Report Advises Positioning Sling TV as a Mobile Offering
Sling TV is missing an opportunity, according to analyst firm Strategy Analytics, which advises positioning Sling TV as a mobile offering. In a new report, Strategy Analytics cites key factors in the success of Sling…
With 50% of X1 Subscribers Accessing Netflix, Comcast and Netflix Expand Their Business Relationship
Comcast and Netflix intend to expand their interesting business relationship, highlighting a shifting video landscape. Comcast integrated Netflix into their X1 operating system back in 2016 and now plans to offer “[n]ew and innovative Xfinity…
Hulu and Spotify Expand Bundled Video and Music Offer to Anyone
Hulu and Spotify came together last year to offer a bundled video and music deal, Spotify Premium for Students, targeting undergraduate college students. That bundled deal has now been opened to anyone, albeit at a…
Parks Finds Subscription OTT Market Share Shifts
There is a new member to the upper echelon of subscription OTT services in the U.S. market, according to new subscription OTT market share research from Parks Associates. The firm found that Netflix, Amazon Video…
Disney, ESPN OTT Streaming Services to Begin Next Year, Says Goodbye to Netflix
It’s just been a matter of time. It’s now confirmed by Disney executives that Disney and ESPN OTT streaming services are now on tap, embracing a direct to consumer model for content distribution. Disney CEO…
Report: TV Streaming Subscribers Can Be Segmented into Four Categories
About two-thirds of U.S. adult broadband users have subscriptions to video-on-demand (SVOD) on a home television. Streaming movies and TV programs via the Internet to their TV screens isn’t the only thing that distinguishes home…