State of the Screens

The streaming wars are heating up with each player developing a strategy for attracting new customers while reducing customer churn. Average annual churn rate: 1) Traditional pay-TV - 4% 2) Netflix - 7% Quote from Tim Nollen - Analyst…

Worth your time: Comcast Spotlight has pulled together viewership data from 17M HH.

A new record: There are still five months remaining in 2019, but we already have a record number of television blackouts.

Facebook advertising revenue (YoY growth):1) 2015-Q2 - $3.8B

The big shift: Smart TV manufacturers such as Vizio and Samsung are creating ad-supported streaming channels in their OS to compete with Roku and Amazon.

Annual minutes viewed on Netflix in 2018:1) The Office - 52.1B

Netflix subscriber growth in 2019-Q2:1) Projected - 5.0M

HBO and Game of Thrones both set records for most Emmy nominations in a single year. Most Emmy nominations by network in a single year 1) HBO (2019) - 137 2) HBO (2015) - 126 2019 Emmy…

Local advertising will pass $155B in 2020.

Mobile data usage is exploding as U.S. carriers start to roll out 5G services.