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Consumer issues with accessing the NFL games are also indicative of a fragmented sports streaming landscape. Eric Sorensen, a senior contributing analyst with Parks Associates , noted in July how current NFL programming is spread. From the article, "Some NFL+ users struggle to watch games on the app" by Masha Abarinova.

“Across the nation, all sorts of internet service providers have gained two new competitors,” says Kristen Hanich, the research director for Parks Associates, referring to T-Mobile and Verizon. “They need to prepare for that accordingly.” “That puts [T-Mobile] at about the 10th largest internet service provider in the United States, basically coming out of nothing a year or so ago,” Hanich says. “There are a lot of people that only had one choice of internet...

Increased smart TV affordability, improved performance, and improved streaming consumption experiences have all collectively added to smart TVs’ consumer appeal in recent history. Though both smart TVs and streaming media players have grown in adoption and importance, smart TVs are increasingly the streaming video device that services and developers should consider the most commonly owned within US broadband households. According to Parks Associates research of 10,000 internet...

Accessing and experiencing digital media have become more complicated over the past few years, both for consumers and the companies providing the content. The fracturing of entertainment options, coupled with a decline in traditional pay TV, has forced many consumers to subscribe to a bevy of services in order to access the video content they want to watch. While this situation offers consumers a greater than ever selection of content, it offers a unique set of challenges from an...

In November 2021, Netflix launched Netflix Gaming with five titles out of the gate. It has since grown its library of games to the current offering of over two dozen titles, with ambitions to offer 50 titles by the end of 2022. Netflix currently has about 221 million subscribers globally, but according to data from the app tracking software Apptopia, only 1.7 million of those users are accessing Netflix’s library of games per day – less than 1 percent of the streaming giant’s...

vMVPDs represent a small but growing percentage of the total pay TV market, and over time will become a significant method by which “pay TV” is sold and consumed. Online pay TV overall, including vMVPDs, is poised to overtake traditional pay TV over the long term.   COVID-19 has merely accelerated the pace of trends that were already taking place across the TV landscape prior to the pandemic, and re-acquainted many with TV services, albeit via a different medium –...

The NFL Debuts New Streaming Service NFL+ The NFL launched its streaming service, NFL+, at the end of July at $4.99/month and $29.99/year (Consumers save 50% if they sign up now). The service offers subscribers access to live local and prime time games, NFL Network shows on-demand, and access to the NFL Films archives. A premium tier, at $9.99 month and $79.99/year, comes with full game replays and other premium offerings. While NFL+ is available to stream on phones and...

The growth of online video and connected devices has had profound effects on content creators. Furthermore, the changing distribution environment is simultaneously enabling the shift from traditional broadcast media to digital services with so, so many advanced features. This transition has affected content creators in a variety of ways: More content : While the trope “more content is available to consumers now than at any time in history” is repeated constantly throughout...