WATCH VIDEO. Hulu, not Netflix, appears to be driving the recent increase in cord-cutting, according to Corey Barrett, a senior media analyst at M Science, talking to CNBC News.
Tivo research shows reasons for cord-cutting
Expensive cable subscriptions remain the main reason why US customers are deciding to cut the cord, but OTT services, DTT and binge watching are becoming more important.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: “Amazon is so scary”
WATCH VIDEO. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sees Amazon as an “awfully scary” competitor, though he stopped short of saying it was Netflix’s biggest threat, he said on on CNBC’s Squawk […]
ANGA COM 2017: Is cord cutting coming to Germany?
“We all have a problem”, Lutz Schüler, CEO of German cable operator Unitymedia, said in the opening discussion of the ANGA COM 2017 congress in Cologne: “We live from the […]
60% of Dutch viewers will consider cord-cutting
60% of Dutch viewers will consider cutting the cord if the three main public NPO channels are available OTT, according to research from Telecompaper.
15% of US broadband homes have antenna-only TV
New cord-cutter consumer research from Parks Associates shows the percentage of US broadband households that use only antennas to receive TV has steadily increased since 2013 to reach 15%.
AT&T to unveil details of OTT service Directv Now
On November 28 AT&T will unveil details of its new OTT service DirecTV Now, which will offer 100 channels at a starting price of $35 a month.
Availability of streaming content drives cord cutting
As consumers find themselves with a wider variety of OTT content options, price is becoming less of a factor in the decision to cut the cord with pay TV providers […]
Cord-cutting lower in Western Europe than the US
16% of Spanish pay-TV households subscribed to pay TV for the first time last year, although the country’s broadband households still exhibit high incidences of cord shaving, cord cutting, and […]
Cord cutting now a concern in Poland
Nearly a third of cable and DTH subscribers in Poland are thinking about cord cutting.