Monday, October 31, 2016
GAIA: Under-The-Radar Hyper-Growth 5-Bagger
Well, today the global OTT market of 218 million video subscribers is large and they have quite significant and growing tailwinds, which is according to the study from Parks Associates which has released this year. Also according to 2015 study completed by Bespoke, streaming is far in a way to prefer method of watching movies. 48% of the survey responded and prefers streaming more than double of those who prefer cable satellite or DVDs.
From the article "GAIA: Under-The-Rada ...read more
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
31 Percent Of U.S. Netflix Viewers Don’t Pay For It
However, a recent report from Parks Associates claimed that mooching leads to humongous losses of $500 million a year for the streaming video industry. The online black market for streaming accounts is thriving, and this is the major concern of Hastings and Plepler since stolen login credentials are sold at a discount in such markets.
From the article "31 Percent Of U.S. Netflix Viewers Don’t Pay For It" by Aman Jain.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Netflix Password Sharing: Is It Piracy?
An article by MarketWatch includes comments from Goldman Sachs Analyst Heath Terry, who suggests the possible intent of Netflix behind targeting the HD plan. “We believe a targeted price change like this is designed to reduce excessive password sharing by incentivizing users to switch to the 1-screen plan,” Terry said.
The price of both single screen streaming plans and the two-screen HD plan is the same at $7.99. An important question is whether password sharing outside the ...read more
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
YouTube Updates App For Apple TV
Over a billion unique visitors check out YouTube every month and watch over 6 billion hours of video. This makes it the leading source of internet traffic around the globe. What’s more is that TV box sets such as Apple TV are also surging in popularity. Research group Parks Associates predicts sales of TV boxes will continue to grow and top 57 million worldwide by 2018. That number is triple the 20 million last year.
From the article "YouTube Updates App For Apple TV" by Ann ...read more