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Report: U.S. Connected TV Penetration to Reach 60% by Year-End, 202 Million Users in 2020
The connected TV market will surge higher out to 2020, when U.S. connected TV penetration will represent 71.2 percent of U.S. Internet users and 60.4 percent of the national population in 2016, according to new…
CTA Foresees Record Breaking Black Friday Consumer Tech Sales
Researchers at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) foresee a record-breaking Black Friday consumer tech sales. The number of Americans saying they intend to buy tech products from the Monday before Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday (Nov.…
Mobile Video Viewing Survey Finds 85% Jump Since 2010
Mobile video viewing has been growing rapidly and reached massive scale over the course of recent years, according to a new mobile video viewing survey. Some 1.1 billion consumers use their smartphones or other Internet-connected…
Report: Amazon Prime Subscription Growth Surging, Netflix and Hulu’s Slip
Amazon Prime subscription growth is getting a boost as the OTT video provider ¨unbundles¨ its streaming and shipping services. Subscription growth at Netflix and Hulu is falling short or expectations, however; prompting eMarketer to raise…
Google Pixel Smartphone, Google Home, Google WiFi Avoid “Me Too”-ism
Google has avoided a “me too” approach with a range of new products announced yesterday – including the Google Pixel smartphone, a voice assistant for home control known as Google Home, a WiFi system that…
Subscription VOD Research Finds 29% Increase in Past Two Years
Growing interest in ¨carousel¨ menu offerings, rising SVOD subscription sharing, growing adoption of TV network apps and a growing number of pay-TV TV Everywhere (TVE) offerings are highlights of new subscription VOD research from Digitalsmiths.…
Show Dumping Research: 37% Have Stopped Watching a Favorite Show
TV viewers are increasingly “show dumping” – discontinuing viewing of even their favorite programs – due to rising costs and difficulties associated with watching them, according to new show dumping research research from TiVo. Surveying…
Research: Tablet Pricing Trends Higher Even as Sales Decline
Global tablet pricing trends and sales trends moved in opposite directions in 2Q 2016, according to Strategy Analytics. Tablet shipments dropped 8 percent year-over-year (YoY) to total 46.7 million units in 2Q while average selling…
OTT Video Business Models: 55% Are Subscription-Only, Says Parks
The business models of more than half – 55 percent – of U.S. OTT video services providers are subscription-only. The corresponding figure in Canada is 50 percent, according to new market data about OTT video…
IaaS Revenues Forecast to More than Triple to $43.6 Billion by 2020
The public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market is booming, according to new market research from IDC. Nearly 2/3 of more than 6,000 IT organizations surveyed are already using or planning to use public cloud IaaS by…
Boingo and Amazon Team to Deliver Fast, Free Wi-Fi to Amazon Underground Customers
Los Angeles, California — July 6, 2016 — Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ: WIFI), the leading DAS and Wi-Fi provider that serves consumers, carriers and advertisers worldwide, announced that it has teamed up with Amazon to offer…
Report Finds Roku with Biggest OTT Video Set Top Box Market Share
Set-top boxes from the likes of Apple, Google and Roku are the fourth-most popular means of streaming OTT video in homes, according to OTT video set top box market share research from comScore. The OTT…