Tag: Streaming
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Only 39% of Americans Stream TV on Their Smart Phones
Mobile viewing has been a growing trend in the United States. Now OpenSignal has released The State of Mobile Video Experience Report. According to the report, 39% of American consumers watch TV and 28% watch movies on their mobile devices. 55% of Gen Z and 52% of Millennials stream on mobile devices making them the…
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Discovery is Launching a Streaming Service With Polish Pay-TV Company
Discovery and Polish pay-TV company Cyfrowy Polsat are partnering to launch a new streaming service. According to Deadline, the service which has no name yet will house programming from Polsat and TVN which is owned by Discovery, as well as generate its own original content. “This new venture fits squarely into our international strategy and…
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Streaming Viewers have Reportedly Quadrupled Since 2010 With The Growth of Cord Cutting
In 2010, only 15% of viewers streamed content at least weekly. Now nine years later that number has more than quadrupled to 65%. That doesn’t surprise us, since a new report shows two out of three adults stream some kind of video online, with 2/3 of that group streaming more online than they watch via…
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45% of Americans Primarily Stream Their TV as Cord Cutting Grows
Today The Hub released a new study looking at how Americans view TV. According to this study 45% of American TV viewing is now happening online. This is the first time ever that traditional pay-TV services like cable TV and streaming options like Netflix are now in a statistical tie for American viewership. “With its…
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5 Tips to Improve Your WiFi for Better Streaming
When cord cutters experience buffering they often blame the streaming provider when the real issue is their Wi-Fi network. These complaints are common with live TV services as they often say “Netflix works but my live TV service does not.” The truth is live TV needs a little more speed for a variety of reasons…
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Fewer Americans Are Watching Cable TV But More Americans Are Streaming Netflix, Amazon, & Hulu
This week a research group called Hub Entertainment Research released their annual look at the state of streaming and traditional pay TV. According to this report, cable TV/pay-TV subscriptions dropped from 84% of Americans in 2018 to 75% of all Americans in 2019. At the same time, the big three streaming services saw a jump…
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Streaming Will Be More Popular Than Cable TV in Canada Next Year
According to a report from Convergence Research Group, reported by Huffington Post, the number of households in Canada that subscribe to streaming services is expected to be greater than cable customers next year. This comes as now in the United States more people subscribe to a streaming service than a traditional pay-TV provider. “If we…
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The FCC Is Cracking Down on Sellers of Streaming Players Not Approved By the FCC
The number of small set-top boxes popping up for sale online is getting attention from the FCC. Often these boxes are not approved by FCC rules. For example, they may have Wi-Fi chips that can interfere with other Wi-Fi networks. Now the FCC is warning the makers and users of streaming players that are not…
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The Average American Subscribes to Just 2.25 Streaming Services
For some time now one of the main attacks on cord cutting has been that you need 10 services to get what you want to watch. Our internal reader surveys have shown the average cord cutter pays for four or fewer streaming services. Now, according to a presentation at NAB from Tony Gunnarsson a principal…
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Streaming Makes Up Nearly Half of Music Revenue is TV Next?
A post from Tech Crunch says that streaming music is now accounting for 47% of global recorded music revenue. Of that 47% of revenue from subscriptions and audio streams, 37% is made up of paid streaming accounts while the remaining 10% is ad-supported streaming. Music streaming brought in $8.9 billion in 2018. The same report…