Analysis

Impacted by the rise of the sharing economy, the uptake of renting and buying individual movies and TV shows has yet to take off in the digital marketplace, according to a GfK study. The report, part of GfK’s The Home Technology Monitor, shows that many consumers continue to prize their DVDs and other physical media. Viewers are less likely to add to their video libraries with intangible digital copies.

Looking down the line at the next ten years, SNL Kagan has given a sunny outlook for what's ahead in the U.S. cable industry. Residential revenues are projected to increase from $108.38 billion in 2016 to $117.7 billion in 2026, or $9.32 billion over the ten-year period.

The ten leading pay-TV services in the U.S. lost 663,000 subscribers between them in the second quarter of 2016, according to the latest informitv Multiscreen Index, which emphasizes how mergers and acquisitions have reshaped this segment.

Second-quarter deal volume in the entertainment, media and communications sector in the U.S. rose by 3 percent to 188 announced transactions, PwC reports. Deal value was also up, hitting $41 billion, the highest it's been in 12 months.

New findings from GfK reveal that one-quarter (25 percent) of all U.S. TV households are now going without cable and satellite reception.

By 2022, U.S. TV station owners will receive $11.6 billion in retransmission fees from multichannel operators, according to SNL Kagan. U.S. retrans fees hit $6.4 billion last year and are set to reach $7.7 billion this year, a 20-percent gain. SNL Kagan observes that while retrans fees are gaining, including annual increases in dollar-per-subscription rates, margins are under pressure.

According to a new survey, 20 percent of streamers in the U.S. plan to switch, downgrade or disconnect their pay-TV services in the next six months.

A new study finds that nearly three-fourths of U.S. online consumers have internet-connected televisions and that the majority of TV-screen streamers actually prefer a paid model for their TV show and movie viewing.

The top six pay-TV operators in the U.S., as ranked by informitv's Multiscreen Index, maintained their subscriber numbers in the first quarter of 2016, adding in total 33,000 video customers. These six operators have a total of 78.31 million video subscribers between them.

Leichtman Research Group reports that internet-connected TV devices now represent greater numbers than pay-TV set-top boxes in the U.S. According to new findings, 65 percent of U.S. TV households have at least one television set connected to the internet via a video game system, a smart TV set, a Blu-ray player and/or a stand-alone device (like Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast or Amazon Fire TV).