- Password Sharing Falls Slightly: Heavy TV, Streaming Viewers Are Big Users
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 6, 2024
More than four in 10 people someone's else login and password f ...
- Premium Streamers Provide Best 'Ad Experience,' MVPDs Have The Worst: Study
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 31, 2024
A new Hub Research Entertainment survey finds 53% of respondents view advertisi ...
- Entertainment Bundles: Consumers Want More Than Just Video
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 20, 2024
Consumers - especially young consumers - want streaming "bundles" to be mo ...
- Wieser: Streaming Price Hikes May Be Working Against Pay TV
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Overall consumer video spend rose 2% in Q3, but streaming gains we ...
- JD Power: Live Streamers Command Far Higher Loyalty Than Cable/Satellite, YouTube TV Rules
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 17, 2023
Likelihood of switching services in the next year is 12% with streamer ...
- YouTube TV Drives vMVPDs To 20% Share Of Pay-TV Subscribers
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 16, 2023
An estimated Q3 gain of 600,000 puts YouTube TV in striking distan ...
- 23 House Dems Take Streamers' Side In Regulatory Battle With Local TV
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 9, 2023
The letter to the FCC follows recent one from 20 senators backi ...
- 20 Senators Push FCC To Regulate vMVPDs
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 20, 2023
A letter from Sen. Ben Ray Lujan and 19 others backs loc ...
- FCC Proposal Would Require Rebates For Channel Blackouts
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 12, 2023
A second proposal would require MVPDs to notify the FCC of blackou ...
- Traditional Pay-TV Households Drop Below 50%, vMVPDs Inch Up To 15%
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 5, 2023
Today, just 56% of those 18-34 have any kind of pay-TV servic ...
- AT&T Exploring Sale Of DirecTV Stake: Report
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 5, 2023
AT&T uses its 70% stake in the standalone DirecTV company to offs ...
- Live Streamers, At $69 Per Month, Far Less Likely To Churn Than Traditional Pay TV
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, October 3, 2023
YouTube TV is #1 in satisfaction among live streaming services, followed ...
- SVODs Now Nearly Tied With Live TV As Viewers' Default Starting Point
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, September 13, 2023
While live TV was still found to be the top viewing defau ...
- More Signs Of Streaming Cutbacks - Time To 'Super Bundle'?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 21, 2023
Consumers keep pushing to make streaming cutbacks. But streaming platform owners m ...
- 22% Of Adults Have Dropped A Streamer Recently, But Don't Blame The Ads
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, July 11, 2023
DirecTV Advertising survey finds top three reasons for dropping paid ad-supported ...
- Xumo Integrating FAST Channels Into Comcast X1 Cable Box
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Comcast will be the first MVPD to integrate FASTs. ...
- Turnaround: Consumers Reduce Video Services Stacking, FAST Adoption Growth Stalls
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, May 12, 2023
The percentage subscribing to three or more 'Big 5' SVODs is dow ...
- vMVPDs' Strong Q3 Helps Offset Accelerated Cable, Satellite Subscriber Losses
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 15, 2022
vMVPDs gained 900,000 subs, but cable and satellite dropped a hefty 1 ...
- Pay TV's Accelerated Bleeding Continues: Down 1.9M Subs For 2nd Consecutive Quarter
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 15, 2022
Cable providers Comcast and Charter combined lost nearly 725,000 subs in t ...
- TV Bundles Grow As Viewers Add Streaming Services
Research Intelligencer, - Friday, May 13, 2022
Many consumers say they plan to add to their current number ...
- AVODs Now Account For 25% Of Streaming Consumption
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, April 8, 2022
AVODs are also attracting more diverse audiences than both traditional TV a ...
- vMVPD Keeps Growing, But Doesn't Slow Down The Pay TV Industry Business
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Virtual pay TV providers now total 14.2 million -- up 17% v ...
- Sling TV Adds 117,000 Subscribers, But Dish TV Down 130,000
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 5, 2021
Dish Network totaled 10.98 million pay-TV subscribers -- down from 11.42 milli ...
- Even Paid Content Viewers Are Surprisingly Ad-Tolerant
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, September 3, 2021
Roughly 40% to 55% of consumers who pay for video/TV content a ...
- NBA Finals Lose Ground Over 2-Year Period, While Streaming Rises
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 23, 2021
NBA Finals viewing grew 32% to average a Nielsen-measured 9.9 million v ...
- DirecTV Subs Plunged By 3M In 2020 Amid Record 5.1M Pay-TV Loss
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 5, 2021
AT&T had a net loss of about 3.26 million subscribers across i ...
- vMVPDs' 2020 Trends, In Six Charts
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, February 12, 2021
A look at vMVPDs' shares of subscriptions and sign-ups, resubscribe and tri ...
- 60% Of Pay-TV Users Want Subs To Include Streaming Content From Online Video Services
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, February 9, 2021
MVPDs need to offer video streaming and other advanced features as value-adde ...
- ViacomCBS Strikes Cable Network Carriage Deal With Hulu + Live TV
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, January 4, 2021
ViacomCBS' 14 cable TV networks got a major boost thanks to ...
- FuboTV: Winner Or Loser? Strong Q4 Projections May Not Get Analysts On The Same Page
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Starkly divergent analyst outlooks for FuboTV have driven the stock up ...