Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory January 20, 2012 This week comScore released its U.S. online video rankings for December 2011. Based on this data, several news outlets reported that Google/YouTube maintained dominance in online video. Indeed, as measured by comScore, Google sites dominate in all...

TDG: A Third of PayTV Subscribers to Use ‘TV Everywhere’ Services by 2016 January 10, 2012 (FRISCO, TEXAS) – To defend against the encroachment of over-the-top (OTT) broadband video services like Netflix and Hulu Plus, incumbent PayTV operators are launching so-called ‘TV Everywhere’...

Bill Niemeyer, Senior Analyst January 6, 2012 Netflix released a fairly astonishing number this week, reporting that subscribers streamed two billion hours of on-demand TV shows and movies in Q4 2011 . Netflix notes this was worldwide viewing by their over 20 million streaming subs in 45 countries. Undoubtedly...

Michael Greeson, Founding Partner, Research December 9, 2011 Verizon is a company mutating before our eyes. Its FiOS rollout is nearing completion (15 million HHs passed of the planned 18 million); it is pushing into OTT territory, announcing a limited version of its FiOS TV lineup to the Xbox 360 (in...

Jeremy Toeman, Mr. Manager, Dijit December 2, 2011 "I've made a huge mistake," a quote that could either be attributed to the hasty creation (and destruction) of Qwikster, or to one G.O.B. Bluth, Will Arnett's character on Arrested Development. In a groundbreaking move, those worlds...

Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory December 2, 2011 This week it was reported that several U.S. cable companies were readying new usage-based pricing plans for their broadband customers. These plans may set caps such that virtually anyone using common streaming video services such as Hulu and Netflix...

Laura Allen Phillips, Research Services Manager The roughly 800,000 (net 1 ) Netflix defectors must be looking somewhere for their content. Prior to last Thursday's revenue reports, that somewhere was assumed to be the Redbox or Blockbuster kiosk. According to the results of our Netflix Flash Report...