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The M&E Industry is Stronger, Healthier Together

by Andy Marken

Keeping a home entertainment budget under control today as the marketplace “matures” is a lot like keeping yourself in shape as you mature. Suddenly it’s OMG! “I’ve never, ever, ever, ever, ever met someone …

Tags:AVOD| Broadcast| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Pay TV| Streaming Video| SVOD

Prediction: Roku gets bought out in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced TV reports predictions for 2022 that include the prediction that Roku could be bought by a major tech company, and suggests that it could be a ‘perfect fit’ for Apple. …

Tags:Apple| Netflix| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| SVOD

Panasonic Adds Apple TV to 2017-21 Sets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FlatPanelsHD reported that Panasonic has added support for Apple TV+ on 2017-2021 OLED and LCD TVs that have the ‘My Home Screen’ platform in Europe. What We Think It’s unusual to …

Tags:Apple| Panasonic| Streaming Video| SVOD

Behind the Screens: The Emerging Viewership Landscape

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has been building a business, run by Samsung Ads, to develop and exploit the huge installed base of Samsung SmartTVs and the firm has published, through DTV Europe, an interesting analysis of how …

Tags:AVOD| Europe| North America| Samsung| Streaming Video| SVOD| TV Viewing

Parks: U.S. Consumer Adoption of Smart TVs Reached 56% in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Parks Associates reported that SmartTV penetration has now reached 56% of US broadband homes. Smartspeakers and smartdisplays reached 53%. 82% of domestic broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video …

Tags:broadband| Market Data| OTT Video| Smart TV| SVOD| USA

TV as an App – With Cloud Support

by Bob Raikes

Back at CES in 2010, I met in a hotel suite with a firm that had a new approach to TV that struck me as significant, useful and important. A friend had gone to …

Tags:AVOD| Cloud TV| Pay TV| STBs| Streaming Video| SVOD

Research: US streamers leaving VoD

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Kantar has reported on the US SVOD market and Advanced Television had details. Entertainment on Demand, the solution measuring streaming service subscription levels, reveals the following subscriber behaviours in the US …

Tags:Market Data| SVOD

The Uncharted Waters of Streaming Media

by Pete Putman

15 years ago, no one in entertainment had ever heard the term “over the top,” or knew what the acronyms SVOD and AVOD meant. Today, they are an integral part of every conversation about …

Tags:AVOD| Smart TV| Streaming Video| SVOD| USA

Global SVOD subscriptions to reach 1.6 billion in 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digital TV Research forecast that while SVOD subscriptions will more than triple globally from 491 million in 2021 to 1.64 billion in 2026, the dominance of China and the US will …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Netflix| SVOD

Links Week Ending 24th September 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. ‘An Invitation – A Colour the Trails …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Batteries| Europe| Germany| Interactive Displays| Investment| LG Electronics (LGE)| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| SVOD| TVs (TV Sets)| USB

Watch, Watch, Watch Your Shows, Bingeing Through The Stream…

by Pete Putman

TiVo’s latest Video Trends Report was just released, covering the second quarter of 2021, and it’s full of interesting data about how, when, and where we in North America watch video content. A little …

Tags:Cable| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Streaming Video| SVOD| USA