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Amazon boasts an increasingly impressive roster of content in its video service, with high-budget original shows like "The Man In The High Castle" and the forthcoming show by the "Top Gear" team.

But Netflix is a formidable opponent: In a recent Morgan Stanley poll, 29% of people surveyed said that Netflix has the best original content--beating HBO for the first time, and trouncing Amazon Prime, which just 5% said had the best material. Netflix also has the most loyal subscr ...read more

The benefit is that you can cancel any time you want, and are only committed on a month-to-month basis. This might serve as a good move for Amazon, allowing people to dip their toes into the Prime water before upgrading to the yearly plan. It also serves to underscore how great a deal Prime is.

But if you are already familiar with Prime, these new plans only really make sense if you see yourself canceling in the near future. 19% of Prime's current subscriber base has cancele ...read more

Netflix has by far the most loyal subscribers of its competitors, according to new research by Parks Associates.

Analysts found that Netflix subscribers were much less likely to cancel than those of Hulu or Amazon Prime Video. Netflix has now captured 52% of US broadband households, and in the last year, only 9% of its subscriber base has canceled, Parks Associates found.

From the article "Netflix's Subscribers Are Much More Loyal Than Hulu And Amazon Prime's" by Nathan ...read more

Netflix has by far the most loyal subscribers of its competitors, according to new research by Parks Associates.

Analysts found that Netflix subscribers were much less likely to cancel than those of Hulu or Amazon Prime Video. Netflix has now captured 52% of US broadband households, and in the last year, only 9% of its subscriber base has canceled, Parks Associates found.

From the article "This Stat Shows How Much Netflix Crushes Hulu And Amazon Prime In Subscriber Loyal ...read more

Loyalty is the name of the game for places like Netflix and Hulu going forward, Callahan says. “It’s much easier to keep a customer than acquire a new one,” he explains.

High turnover has been one of Hulu’s nagging problems. According to research by Parks Associates earlier this year, around 50% of Hulu’s subscriber base had canceled their subscriptions in the last 12 months. Netflix’s turnover was only 9%.

From the article "What Hulu needs to beat Netflix" by Nathan McA ...read more

According to a new study by the research firm Parks Associates, the Apple TV only accounts for 3.6% of all video streaming to televisions in the US, while its biggest rival, Roku, accounts for nearly 10% of streaming.

From the article "More people use a Nintendo Wii for streaming than Apple TV" by Steve Kovach.

Even though millions of people have game consoles like the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, people are streaming less video on game consoles, and more on streaming media players, according to new research from Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research firm.

That's because these boxes are easy to setup and use, relatively inexpensive, and have lots of options in terms of content.

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Between 1995 and 2013, the average price of an expanded basic cable package has increased by 6.1% each year, according to the FCC.

Brett Sappington, the director of research at Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research and consulting firm, told Tech Insider that the primary reason prices keep going up is that the prices companies like Comcast and DirecTV have to pay the networks for content keep going up.

“The cable networks and broadcasters ask for more money, an ...read more