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Research: 47% US homes subscribe to Amazon Prime Video

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

December 9, 2020

Research: US SVoD service stacking on rise

Findings from Parks Associates’ study, The Next ‘Big 3’ in OTT, indicate that 61 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to two or more OTT services as of Q3 2020, up from 48 per cent the previous year. Forty-five per cent subscribe to three or more, up from

November 24, 2020

Report: Disney+ struggling to break into ‘Big 3’ US SVoDs

Parks Associates has released its updated list of the top 10 US subscription OTT services, based on estimated number of subscribers through September 2020 from the firm’s OTT Video Market Tracker. Parks Associates notes that recent entrants such as HBO Max, Apple TV+, and Disney+ have rearranged the top ten list. Sling TV dropped out […]

November 19, 2020

Report: Mobile 40% of all video consumption among US Gen Z

Parks Associates has released a market snapshot OTT Video Viewership: The Role of Mobile, which finds viewing on a smartphone or tablet now accounts for over 40 per cent of all video consumption hours among Gen Z heads of US broadband households, compared to just 20 per cent among all heads of US broadband households. […]

October 29, 2020

Research: Nearly 300 OTT services in US

Research from Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker shows that through Q3 2020, the number of OTT video services in the US has more than doubled since 2014, currently reaching nearly 300 different services. The rate of closure has also declined, from a peak in 2018 when

October 21, 2020

Research: US pay-TV penetration falls to 62%

Parks Associates consumer research finds 62 per cent of US broadband households subscribe to a traditional pay-TV service via a cable or satellite provider, down from 69 per cent in Q1 2019, even as the average amount of video watched per week has spiked to more than 37 hours per household. “The explosion of online […]

August 25, 2020

Forecast: US cloud gaming to generate $3bn subscription revenue

Research from Parks Associates finds the US cloud gaming market could generate nearly $3 billion (€2.6bn) in annual subscription revenue, as 30 per cent of US broadband households currently express interest in this service. The research, in Cloud Gaming Demand and Preferences, reports 74 per cent of US broadband households play video games for at […]

July 22, 2020

Research: “STBs can adapt to have a role in OTT market”

Parks Associates research shows the number of hours per week consumers spend watching online video has almost doubled from 3.6 hours per week in 2017 to nearly seven hours per week in 2020. The Set-top Box Innovations and Trends report also notes traditional pay-TV has declined from an adoption rate of 75 per cent to […]

July 2, 2020

Research: Adoption of stand-alone broadband up 42% in US

Consumer research from Parks Associates finds the market for broadband service is steady overall, showing high adoption rates and rising ARPUs, with the adoption rate for stand-alone Internet service rising from 34 per cent in 2017 to 42 per cent in Q1 2020. The average stand-alone Internet subscriber now pays $60 per month for service, […]

June 26, 2020

Study: 54% US homes own smart TV

According to market research and consulting company Parks Associates, more than 50 per cent of US broadband households own at least one smart TV, making the smart TV the primary platform for video services at a time when content consumption is increasing dramatically. The findings are contained in a new whitepaper, Optimizing the Smart TV […]

June 25, 2020