2020 has seen an accelerated transition of viewing from traditional channels to free and subscription streaming video services, as consumers had more options to choose from and more time at home under Covid restrictions, according to The NPD Group’s new TV Switching Study, which tracks changes in the ways US consumers view and buy digital […]
Nick Thexton, CTO, Synamedia, has offered his industry thoughts and predictions for 2021. Thexton believes that consumers’ loyalty to content will play a big part in driving demand for business insights. He comments: As consumers we are loyal to content, not platforms. If you’re a Game of Thrones addict the chances are you will follow […]
Ampere’s latest analysis of the US and European SVoD market reveals that the average US streaming household now stacks an average of four different subscription video services. In the five largest Western European territories, streaming homes have an average of two services. The pandemic, national lockdowns, and the launch of new studio-backed subscription services have […]
Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Studios have announced a €500,000 commitment to support workers working behind the scenes in Germany’s entertainment industry that have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Many TV and movie productions, concerts and other events have been delayed or came completely to a halt due to the Covid-19 crisis. As a […]
Parks Associates research finds the overall annual churn rate for US OTT services, representing those subscribers who have cancelled a service as a percentage of the current subscriber base, dropped from 46 per cent in Q3 2019 to 38 per cent in Q3 2020. As a subset of subscription-based OTT services, vMVPDs experienced an even […]
Peter Docherty, Founder and CTO at ThinkAnalytics, has shared his industry predictions for 2021. He comments: “Super-aggregation and universal search have featured in my predictions for the last three years and appear again this year – with a twist. Today a growing number of operators are reinventing themselves as content aggregators offering, say, Amazon Prime […]
The European Audiovisual Observatory has published its latest report on Film and TV content on VoD platforms in Europe. The report finds that European film and TV series seasons represent 32 per cent of all content found on TVoD and 27 per cent of SVoD in the EU. Further key findings from the report include: […]
Research from Parks Associates finds 47 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to Amazon Prime Video, second only to Netflix among subscription-based OTT video services in the US. “The surge in online
Cloud services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), and ViacomCBS have reached an agreement that makes AWS the preferred cloud provider for ViacomCBS’s global broadcast media operations. As part of the strategic agreement, ViacomCBS will migrate operations for its entire broadcast footprint, which spans 425 linear television channels and 40 global data and media centres, to […]
Parks Associates research finds roughly 40 per cent of US broadband households trialed at least one OTT service during the Covid-19 pandemic. These free trials are important drivers to paying subscriptions, and by leveraging data on viewer activities and preferences, providers can personalise their services to improve subscriber stickiness. Some 42 per cent of US […]