Women’s sports are a place advertisers can reach a diverse and economically-engaged audience. 43% of women’s sports fans are male, and they skew young, according to Nielsen. 74% of women’s sports fans earn the primary income in their households, as compared to 70% of men’s sports fans.
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| Apr 16, 2025
Disney said that subscriptions are “meant to be used within your household, which is a collection of devices associated with your primary personal residence.”. The cost of a Basic subscription that includes Hulu is $9.99 monthly, while ad-free Premium subscriptions are $19.99. What happens now?
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| Sep 26, 2024
Sunday Ticket propels YouTube TV to 48% growth: The pay TV service has seen subscriptions jump significantly since it acquired the costly streaming rights.
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| Nov 13, 2023
Deeper dive: Netflix has previously initiated measures to increase user revenues, such as introducing a fee for sharing an account outside one's household. Disney+ is getting in on the password-sharing crackdown act as well. Disney and WBD are also exploring new content tiers, like live sports, to attract subscribers.
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| Oct 4, 2023
As streaming wars heat up, nearly three in 10 US internet households are canceling services to save money. Seeking profitability, streamers increase subscription prices. Disney and Spectrum reach a new deal that includes Disney+ and ESPN subscriptions.
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| Oct 20, 2023
It's the sentence that wasn't in the article, and that is that the proportion of US households that subscribe to traditional pay TV dropped below 50% for the first time in 2022. So yes, all of the stats in the article were true and accurate and indicative of a trend that's not going to be reversed.
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| Mar 16, 2023
I think there are many other tipping points that we've seen coming for a long time," Verna said, noting that cable households have been below 50% for some time now. Late-night TV struggles signal deeper issues. The recent cancellation of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" has sparked debate about whether it represents another canary in the coal mine for linear television.
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| Aug 28, 2025
US households paid an average of $726 on streaming services in 2023, per Deloitte. Some pay as much as $1,236. Content is also gated behind platform exclusivity more than ever before: Apple TV+, Max, Netflix, and Disney might all have big-name shows in a single year, forcing consumers to pick and choose.
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| Aug 30, 2024
Don’t count Roku out: The CTV provider hit 90 million US households, cementing its leadership even as the sector undergoes major consolidation.
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| Jan 8, 2025
The company claims to support nearly 40 million households and 60 million devices across the US but is still not profitable. iSpot similarly has a major deal in place with NBCUniversal and gained a $325 million investment from Goldman Sachs last year.
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| Sep 14, 2023
How it works: The partnership relies on the data Kroger collects from the over 60 million households that shop with the grocer annually, as well as deeper insights from its loyalty program.
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| Apr 19, 2023
Already, nearly one-third of US internet households are canceling streaming services to save money, according to Parks Associates. “Spending a lot less on content and expecting big subscriber growth—that is definitely trying to have your cake and eat it too,” Verna said. Listen to the full episode. This was originally featured in the eMarketer Daily newsletter.
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| Dec 1, 2023
US CTV households will make up 86% of households this year, growing to 89.4% by 2028. CTV’s strong growth and US penetration makes it an invaluable channel for advertisers, but it’s still a relatively nascent format that the industry is still learning how best to leverage.
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| Apr 26, 2024
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Source: Office of Communications (Ofcom) - UK; Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) - UK
The company emphasized SpinCo’s value, flexing its reach of 70 million US households and $7 billion in revenues in the last 12 months. We forecast US linear TV viewers to decline from 240.7 million this year to 225.3 million by 2028. Ad spending will fall in kind from $58.99 billion to $45.32 billion.
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| Nov 20, 2024
Prime Video's default ad-supported offering for 97.2 million US households and its competitive pricing drove significant revenue growth. Ads personalized according to extensive shopper data give Amazon a competitive edge over traditional networks and other streaming platforms. And unlike its competitors, Amazon ties ads to product sales, offering a unique value proposition to advertisers.
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| Aug 2, 2024
Called Freely, it will deliver free TV services to households via IP. It will essentially replicate the free-to-air broadcast delivery of terrestrial TV, just via broadband rather than an aerial. Sky’s broadband TV service turns one year old. In October 2022, the UK’s largest satellite pay TV provider launched its IP-delivered TV alternative, Sky Stream.
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| Nov 9, 2023
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| Aug 25, 2023
Its reputation for value is helping make its offerings stickier for households of all income levels—which in turn is accelerating its ecommerce and advertising businesses. That said, the imposition of tariffs next year could be a drag on the retailer’s performance— particularly general merchandise sales, which are only now showing signs of recovery.
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| Dec 30, 2024
Panels have proven an essential tool in bringing household-level data to the individual level—a process known as personification that paves the way for cross-device and cross-media measurement. Closed-loop attribution will draw more advertisers to streamers with retail media connections. Retailers are capitalizing on the CTV opportunity.
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| Apr 11, 2024
The legacy television business’ decline shows no signs of stopping, with traditional pay TV viewers falling by the millions. Major media conglomerates are feeling the pressure to evolve or face extinction. Warner Bros.
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| May 16, 2025
Streaming households: 83.6 million, up 2 million from Q1. Streaming household hours: 30.1 billion (5 billion YoY increase). Average revenues per user: $40.68, flat YoY. Per-share loss: 24 cents vs. 43 cents expected. Roku is a leader in the connected TV (CTV) advertising space.
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| Aug 19, 2024
The number of US addressable households will fall 8.0% this year, per our forecast, as cord-cutting shows little sign of slowing down. We’ve lowered our US addressable linear TV ad spending forecast. Our 2023 forecast is now $1.80 billion, down from the previous estimate of $3.96 billion. The adjustment is retroactive going back to 2018, which we’ve lowered from $1.46 billion to $1.33 billion.
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| Jun 21, 2023
Estimates are based on the analysis of survey and web traffic data from research firms and regulatory agencies, historical trends, reported subscriber numbers of major pay TV providers, and country-specific demographic and socioeconomic factors.
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| Apr 19, 2023
So cable, a lot of times people encompass everything within that in terms of pay TV. But when you break out pay TV into cable, satellite, telco, et cetera, satellite companies are having a much tougher go of it. Since 2010, the share of cable, just cable households has been nearly cut in half going from 50% to 27.
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| Sep 24, 2024