The landscape of television distribution is changing and evolving every day. Cable TV companies like Comcast are smartly evolving by shifting focus into their streaming platforms and high speed internet businesses. But this quarter Comcast indicated heavy losses to...
8/1/2019 Have you ever been in a public place and hopped onto a public WiFi network? We conducted a survey of 1,195 US residents over the past two weeks asking about internet connectivity and one interesting trend stood out. 82% of respondents (980 total) said they...
Netflix CEO Reid Hastings once said that not being too strict about password sharing is often times one of the company's most powerful marketing strategies. Richard Plepler, former CEO of HBO, said something similar as well back in 2014, right as streaming was hitting...
Welcome to our series of internet service provider comparisons by location. Today we're diving deep into the data behind California ISPs. One of the most technologically savvy states in the country, it's no wonder California has huge demand for internet. First, let's...
Nobody is happy with Netflix's most recent price increase, but our latest study finds the majority of consumers prefer this to the introduction of commercials. METHODOLOGY It was almost silly to ask the question, but to find an audience we could ask about what they...
You probably can't remember the last time you went without access to the internet for a whole week. It's become such an integral part of our lives, for business and pleasure, that we've started to think of internet connectivity as our inalienable right more than an...
The Data in the News Series looks at current events through the lens of data. We look at interesting quantifiable trends, find new and sometimes spurious correlations, and analyze data-based claims made by politicians and public figures.