Parks: Most fans keep sports streaming subscriptions active during off-season
As more sports moves to streaming, fans are growing comfortable — and satisfied — with the available options to watch their favorite teams.
Netflix
Netflix ($NFLX) is an international, subscription-based television and movie service based in Los Gatos, California. The company operates a global streaming service with thousands of TV shows and movies, including some originals, as well as a direct-to-home DVD rental service. As of January 2023, the company had over 231 million subscribers worldwide.
Hub: Streaming surpasses cable as sports platform of choice
More sports fans say they’re willing to buy an SVOD service to watch live games, displacing broadcast and cable networks in Hub’s annual report.
Ampere: Streaming revenue surpasses public TV in Europe
Public service broadcasters are seeing viewership and revenue shift toward premium services like Netflix and Prime Video, but their on-demand platforms are still popular.
Antenna: Bundles help SVOD services manage subscription churn
Streaming services are gaining a better handle on churn by offering lower-priced, ad-supported tiers and by bundling with other services, according to a new report from Antenna.
Netflix content officer expresses interest in Sunday football rights
A Netflix executive is hoping the company gets Sunday afternoon games from the NFL, but one of the company’s co-CEOs says full season rights could be a complicated endeavor.
Dataxis: Ad-supported streaming plans taking off in Europe
More Europeans are streaming content with ads on services like Netflix, Disney Plus and Amazon’s Prime Video, according to new research from Dataxis.
Nielsen: Football boosted season TV viewership in January
NFL and college football programming, plus other live events, helped lift traditional TV’s share of viewership over streaming’s lead in January.
Ampere: Streamers to pay over $12 billion for sports rights in 2025
Streaming television services are expected to fork over more than $12 billion for the rights to live sports programming this year.
Parks: Cord-cutters choosing more ad-supported streaming platforms
More than half of Americans have ditched cable and satellite or never paid for it in the first place, according to Parks Associates.
Luminate: TV production continued to slow in 2024
Cable networks and streaming platforms suffered the worst, while broadcast networks rebounded.
Broadcast, cable TV continue to top Nielsen’s The Gauge
Linear TV captured more than 46 percent of total TV time in December, compared with streaming’s 43 percent.
Netflix reaches 700 million streamers, will raise prices in U.S.
Netflix saw its global customer base increase to 300 million paid accounts by the end of 2024.