Events

CONNECTIONS™ Summit at CES® to feature session on IoT support strategies featuring Level Up Your Home, Minim, and Trusource Labs

New research from Parks Associates shows the prospect of saving money, either through reduced household bills or a discount on insurance premiums, raises the interest in smart home devices among 60% of the U.S. broadband households that do not own and do not intend to purchase a smart home device. The research firm will host its 13th-annual CONNECT ...read more

SmartThings, USAA, Comcast Xfinity, IBM, Alula, and more to speak at CONNECTIONS™ Summit at CES in sessions on convergence of insurance and the smart home

Consumer research fromParks Associates finds more than 40% of U.S. broadband households consider the concept of a smart home to be appealing for their household. The international research firm will host its 13th-annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit: IoT and the Smart Home on January 8 at CES® 2019 in Las Vegas, featuring sessions d ...read more

New keynote speakers from Nest, EnergyHub, and Tendril join Direct Energy at the tenth-annual Smart Energy Summit

Research from Parks Associates shows 12% of U.S. broadband households bought a new energy-efficient appliance or HVAC system in 2017. By comparison, 56% of U.S. broadband households believe that it is very important to have an energy-efficient home, indicating the energy section has many untapped opportunities to promote and sell smart energy solutions to consume ...read more

CONNECTIONS™ Summit at CES® to features special sessions on home security, homebuilding, and energy services, with speakers from eq-3, Ring, Lennar, and Inspire

Parks Associates researchshows a strong connection between home security and smart home adoption—more than one-fourth of U.S. broadband households own a smart home device, while 63% of security system households own a smart home device. The international research firm will address how the smart home technology is cre ...read more

Research firm hosts inaugural Future of Video workshop and pre-show workshop OTT Market Disruption & Capturing Audiences 

Research firm Parks Associates launches the inaugural Future of Video conference today with a pre-show research workshop OTT Market Disruption & Capturing Audiences, featuring speakers from Verizon, XUMO, Viacom, Twitch, LG Electronics, Google, AirTV, and more, at the Marina del Rey Marriott. The research firm will present new consumer research on connect ...read more

New research from Parks Associates finds U.S. broadband households report watching an average of five hours of internet video on their television per week.The international research firm will present new connected entertainment consumer research and discuss implications for new content and business strategies during the workshop OTT Market Disruption & Capturing Audiences, December 10, ahead of the inaugural Future of Video: OTT, Pay TV, and Digital Media conference in Marina de ...read more

Industry leaders converge to address the expansion of new technologies and business models for the connected home

Parks Associates announced the topics for the 23^rd-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, which the research firm will host on May 21-23 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in San Francisco, California. Parks Associates research reveals U.S. broadband households have an average of 10.4 connected devices, including smart home, entertai ...read more

Inaugural conference on OTT, pay TV, and digital media addresses future opportunities in the video market space

Parks Associates research shows consumers are steadily adding connected entertainment devices to their households and using their smart features—83% of smart TV owners connect their device to the internet, up from 70% in 2014. Ownership of streaming media players has almost doubled from about 21% of U.S. broadband households in 2014 to almost 40% in 2018, while sma ...read more