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Fading U.S. Channels: How steep is their audience decline in the streaming era?

2022 January 17 / discovery+, Disney +, Netflix, Ratings, Reality Television, Streaming Video, Unscripted TV, VOD

Variety Intelligence recently published Fading Ratings, featuring a useful series of charts that captures the downward audience trend over five-to-seven years of several portfolios of U.S. networks. The starting points are 2014 or 2016. All screenshots were taken from the report. SVOD’s Rising: The context-setting chart highlights the rise of Netflix and the top subscription …

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Annual Nielsen Update of U.S. Population Trends and Latest Household Universes

2021 November 17 / Ratings

Byron Media’s John Morse reports that Nielsen’s widely-used TV universe numbers provide an important context for advertising and therefore for programming and production targets. Nielsen updates all its universe national base counts once every year in September and they are the official estimates for 2022. KEY TAKEAWAYS: PAST YEAR CHANGES This year the total US …

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The Most Watched U.S. Streamers: Netflix dominates Disney+, Apple TV+ and more. PBS viewing is resilient

2021 November 10 / Commissioning Process, Digital Video, discovery+, Disney +, Distribution, Facebook, Internet Economy, Netflix, OTT, Ratings, Streaming Video

Netflix‘s commanding lead on the flock of streamers is captured in a new set of U.S. data just released by GfK MRI-Simmons and shared by Byron Media‘s John Morse. Interviews were conducted over a 12 month period and respondents were asked which streaming services they watched during the last seven days. The most active commissioners …

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Netflix’s 41% of Time Spent dominates viewing of commissioned & acquired programs

2021 November 5 / Amazon, Commissioning Process, Digital Video, discovery+, Disney +, Distribution, Internet Economy, Netflix, OTT, Ratings, Streaming Video, VOD

What is Netflix’s share of U.S. viewing? Last month I reported on Comscore’s June 2021 findings that Netflix (26% market share) and YouTube (21%) dominate viewership on connected TV’s. The key Comscore measure is ‘Time Spent’. Here’s the chart: Misleading However, the data is misleading if you are a producer, distributor or programmer whose job …

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News Roundup: Climate Change Documentaries Breaking Through?

2021 October 29 / Archive, Commissioning Process, Conferences & Markets, Coronavirus, Digital Video, discovery+, Disney +, Distribution, Documentary Budget, Documentary TV, Facebook, Foundation Funding, Funding a Documentary, Inclusivity, Internet Economy, Monthly News Roundup, Netflix, Off The Fence, Osprey, Pitching, Privacy, Producers' Tool Kit, Public Television, Ratings, Reality Television, Streaming Video, Sunny Side of the Doc, Theatrical Documentary, UK, VOD, Webinars, Women and Film, ZDF-E

The COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference opens in Glasgow on October 31, bringing urgency to the race to save our planet. Documentary commissioners, producers and distributors have responded with lots of new orders. Does global warming have the urgent audience appeal of programs that address hot button issues like true crime, gender, and social …

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Netflix & YouTube dominate viewing of streamers. End of Discovery+ as a standalone?

2021 October 19 / discovery+, Disney +, Distribution, Internet Economy, Netflix, OTT, Public Television, Ratings, Streaming Video, VOD

Netflix (26% market share) and YouTube (21%) dominate viewership on connected TV’s. The launch and rollout of powerful new streamers like Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Discovery+ hardly dented their dominance. Their combined share of the key measure of Time Spent dropped only 2% in 18 months. The outlook is not promising for the new …

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Nielsen’s The Gauge: Streaming Rises. Cable / Broadcast Viewing is Resilient… for Now. Watch Out for Young Viewers

2021 June 23 / discovery+, Disney +, Netflix, OTT, Ratings, Streaming Video, Uncategorized, VOD

Last week Nielsen released The Gauge, a very useful pie chart that captures the total time Americans spent watching cable TV, broadcast TV and streaming services. Digging deeper reveals the seismic shift that our industry is experiencing. The Gauge: Here it is… Let’s dig into the findings: Cable + Broadcast: 64% Cable (39%) & Broadcast …

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BBC director general floats deep cuts to documentaries in ‘Smarter. Bigger. Better’ strategy

2021 February 4 / Commissioning Process, Conferences & Markets, Netflix, Public Television, Ratings, Streaming Video, Sunny Side of the Doc, Theatrical Documentary, UK, Uncategorized

BBC director general Tim Davie yesterday mounted a spirited defense of the pubcaster’s value to British audiences versus the streamers led by Netflix. His presentation and white paper BBC Value for Audiences gained wide coverage in the business media, where the initial focus was on $556 million in proposed cuts. Cut Documentaries Davie later spoke …

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