Analysis

New research from Parks Associates has found that 13 percent of U.S. broadband households are cord-cutters, while 4 percent are cord-never.

New research from Parks Associates finds that U.S. broadband households report watching an average of five hours of internet video on their TV sets per week.

New data from S&P Global Market Intelligence's Kagan reports that cable, DTH and telco operators lost 1.2 million video customers in the U.S. in the third quarter, reaching 91 million.

New research from Parks Associates finds the rate of cancellations for OTT video services among U.S. broadband households has held steady over the past three years at around 18 percent.

New research from GfK MRI finds that almost three-quarters (71 percent) of all U.S. consumers say they have a cable, satellite or telco TV service and have no plans to drop it.

According to the Q2 2018 U.S. Multichannel Subscriber Report by Kagan, the cable, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and telco multichannel sectors lost a combined 860,640 video subscribers in the second quarter.

The number of SVOD subscriptions in the U.S. is forecast to increase from 132 million in 2017 to 208 million in 2023, according to new figures from Digital TV Research.

The top 10 service providers in the U.S. lost more than 358,000 TV subscribers between them in the second quarter of 2018, according to the latest informitv Multiscreen Index.

While deal volume in the U.S. media and telecommunications sector declined slightly in the second quarter, the value of merger and acquisition activity was up, fueled by megadeals, PwC said in a new report.

According to eMarketer’s latest U.S. pay TV/OTT forecast, the number of cord-cutters is expected to climb 32.8 percent this year to 33 million.