Music streaming has become hugely popular in the U.S primarily due to convenience. Americans streamed 284.7 billion on-demand music streams (including video) in the first 6 months of 2017 as per Nielsen data. Assuming that 1,500 streams is the equivalent of 1 album then streaming sells far more “albums” than traditional music sales channels. Streaming …
Social media has made it super easy for African artistes to showcase their talents to the world which is great improvement from the past whereby it was literally like a battleground for musicians and their live bands competing against each other to get their socially conscious music across to the audience. Afrobeat has more opportunities …
According to a recent study on cord-cutting by SNL Kagan, 13% of US homes, or one in eight, are equipped with broadband connections but do not subscribe to a traditional multi-channel video bundle. The total number of such homes has reached 15.4 million in the last year, up 2 million from 2015. The trend accelerated in the fourth …
According to a Digital TV Research, the US and Canadian Pay TV markets are set to headwinds as the industry is hit by subscribers dropping services and a rise in on-pay homes. The research stated that Pay TV subs in North America will fall by 10 million from 112 million in the peak year of 2012 to …
According to Deloitte’s 11th Digital Democracy Survey, almost half (49 %) of US consumers and nearly 60 % of generation Z, millennials and Generation X subscribe to at least one paid video streaming platform. However the survey notes that despite the growth of paid video streaming services, US consumers spend more time streaming video via free …
According to a recent Parks Associates research, 20 % of US pay-TV subscribers say that they are dissatisfied with their pay-TV service, representing a 100 % increase since early 2013. One other report stataed that one third of pay TV subscribers are very satisfied with their service, a drop of 57 % who indicated very high satisfaction levels in 2013. …
According to a recent study by the Leichtman Research Group (LRG), the largest pay-TV providers in the US, which represent about 95 % of the market have lost about 795,000 net video subscribers in the year 2016, as compared to a pro forma loss of some 445,000 subs in 2015. The top pay TV providers account for some 93.6 …
Even though Japanese makers are aggressively switching to 4K TV ranges, China will continue to dominate the market by 42% of all TVs in 2017 with 4K shipments, says a recent IHS Markit research. The analysts calculate that in 2016, more than 25 million 4K TVs were shipped in China and estimate the numbers to almost double by …
According to a recent Leichtman Research Group (LRG) research, Netflix has reached its penetration milestone in the home country. According to the research, some 82% of households in the United States either have Netflix, a DVR, or video-on-demand (VOD) service from a cable, telephone pay-TV provider or a satellite company. The research also found out that 30% of …
According to a recent Diffusion Group (TDG) study, the number of US broadband households that do not subscribe to traditional pay TV service has almost tripled in the past five years since 2011. The figures of ‘cord nils’ in the US has come down from 8 million in 2011 to 22 million by the end of …
