Looks like Netflix and other streaming services are starting to have an impact on traditional TV viewing: Total live TV ratings were down 12.7 percent year over year across the networks… Read more »
An SMS poll can be a powerful thing if the audience you’re tracking relies solely on mobile phones for their connectivity. GeoPoll is putting text and voice surveys to work in… Read more »
Binge viewing via DVR is another example of how consumers are increasingly able to piece together their own a la carte, on-demand, TV Everywhere experience using commercially available technology that is… Read more »
Viewing habits are changing, inexorably. Insofar as the networks’ business model remains premised on traditional linear TV viewing, they are vulnerable to disruption. But vulnerable doesn’t necessarily mean doomed. Read more »
In their first-quarter letter to shareholders, Hastings and CFO David Wells hint that Netflix has developed something of a secret formula for producing hits that it will not be sharing with… Read more »
Presumably, Netflix has some internal metrics for gauging the return on its investment in House of Cards and other original series, but chances are it doesn’t look like a standard TV… Read more »
As I noted in this week’s Weekly Update, the carriage dispute between Viacom and DirecTV that has led to 17 Viacom-owned networks being dropped by the sat-caster is ricocheting throughout the… Read more »
Conan O’Brien may not have the best ratings on late night television, but his followers are tweeting and updating their Facebook statuses more than the audience of any other late night… Read more »