by Pivot
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Connected TV Device Forecast: 231 Million by 2018
Some 231 million devices able to deliver apps and content to Internet-enabled TV sets will be installed and connected by year-end 2018. That would be a rise of 82 percent over the 2014-2018 period, according…
Sprint Offers Amazon Prime Free with Samsung Purchase
November 06, 2015 — OVERLAND PARK, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Beginning Nov. 6, new and existing Sprint (NYSE:S) customers that activate qualifying Samsung devices on Sprint, receive a full year of Amazon Prime on us – that’s a…
GfK: Netflix Users’ Weekly TV Program Viewing Doubled Since 2012
Netflix OTT video subscribers are watching twice as many TV programs per week as they did three years ago, according to the latest from GfK’s ¨The Home Technology Monitor¨ series of reports. The Netflix users…
Netflix Subscriber Forecast: 130 Million by 2020
Market research specialist Ampere Analysis predicts the number of Netflix subscribers will grow to reach more than 130 million by 2020. Outside content suppliers may not be all that pleased, however. Netflix management will invest…
Frontier Freedom TV is Latest Hybrid Video Model, Favors OTT and Local
The quest to find the right video product in a changing broadband and pay-TV landscape continues with the introduction of Frontier’s Freedom TV service. The package bundles over-the-air local broadcast TV, OTT services, and DVR…
Add Video Streaming to Video Gaming’s Impact on Broadband Traffic
Gamers have long been known for their heavy consumption of bandwidth. They want high speed Internet and low latency for a better gaming experience. It helps them to avoid getting shot, virtually of course, in…
Sling TV Launches on Amazon Fire Tablets
August 31, 2015 — ENGLEWOOD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sling TV released its app for Amazon Fire HD and HDX tablets, rounding out its live Internet TV offering on Fire devices, including Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV…
NPD: 50% Connected TV Penetration in Internet Homes
Reaching a milestone, connected TV devices were in use in half of U.S. Internet homes as of end 2Q 2015, according to the NPD Group Connected Intelligence ¨Connected Home Entertainment Report.¨ There are connected TV…
Survey Finds 66 Percent of Netflix Subscribers Using Pay TV
Greater numbers of Netflix subscribers are “cutting the cord” on pay-TV providers. Surveying 829 Netflix subscribers, Cut Cable Today found that two-thirds maintain pay-TV service subscriptions – cable or satellite. But nearly one in 10…
Amazon Adds Over 600 Channels, Apps and Games to Fire TV Devices in 3 Months
June 02, 2015 — SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon Fire TV has the fastest growing selection of any streaming media device—in just the last 3 months, Amazon has added over 600 channels, apps and games to the…
Report: Netflix Network Traffic Dominates, More Than YouTube, Hulu, and Amazon Combined
Surveying a selected portion of its customer base of 250-plus communications service providers (CSPs), Toronto-based Sandvine reports that Netflix continues to gradually increase its dominance when it comes to traffic flowing across North American fixed…
LRG Finds More Than Half of U.S. Households Pay for OTT Video Service
More American households are connecting to the Internet via smart TV sets, video game controllers, Blu-ray disc players or stand-alone devices, such as Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast or Roku, according to new market…