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Netflix Is 12x As Popular As Its Streaming Competitors Among Younger Viewers, Says Survey (businessinsider.com)
Investment bank Piper Jaffray released a survey Friday that reveals just how much U.S. teens love Netflix. Out of the 10,000 U.S. teens surveyed, 37% of them watched Netflix every single day, while only 3% of them watched Amazon Prime Video and Hulu each day, respectively. That means Netflix is over 12 times as popular in terms of daily use. Business Insider reports: At the top of the pack for general video consumption, after Netflix, came YouTube (26%), which inched over cable TV (25%). This continued an upward trend for YouTube and a downward one for cable. Last month, analysts at UBS said Amazon and Hulu were closing the gap with Netflix in overall consumer satisfaction in the U.S. Amazon and Netflix were in a dead heat at 58% and 59% respectively. Hulu still lagged a bit, but was close to Netflix at 53% of people "very satisfied."
But then, it's NETFL!X
As their available content wanes, Netflix is also failing more often... anecdotally anyway. Amazon video is actually what works best for me. Netflix chokes more (and yes, I have it set to avoid HD) and the app also gets into an indeterminate state where you have to clear data and log in again or you get the ui-800-3 error IIRC... I should not know their error codes, or even kind of know them.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
and then see which is tops.
Whatever channel happens to be showing at the old folks home.
Do you think Norks discuss what's on the telly, mums?
> Out of the 10,000 U.S. teens surveyed, 37% of them watched Netflix every single day, while only 3% of them watched Amazon Prime Video and Hulu each day, respectively.
You cannot use "respectively" like that. Respectively can only be used when the number of items are identical in both parts of the sentence, e.g. "3% and 4% of them watched Amazon Prime and Hulu, respectively."
Netflix is 12x as popular as other competing solutions
Microsoft Windows is 2x as popular as other competing solutions (not here obviously)
Microsoft Office is 10x (?) as popular as other competing solutions (not here obviously)
Adobe Photoshop is 100x (?) as popular as other competing solutions
Cadence Virtuoso is 3x as popular as other competing solutions
Facebook is too popular compared to other competing solutions
Whatsapp is 40x as popular as other competing solutions, depending on country
Tinder is 5x as popular as other competing solutions
World of Warcraft is 4x as popular as other competing solutions (popularity is down)
We, as average users, tend to follow what is trendy. It just happens that it looks like most people are watching TV series right now, and Netflix is the largest legal avenue. And you know, you see the Netflix logo in many appliances these days.
We do most of our Netflix watching on smart TVs. Amazon video is only on one of them, and the UI SUCKS. When we bought the one TV that had it, we were expecting improved Amazon support over time. The Netflix app has been updated multiple times, while the Amazon one never has. The fact is, Amazon just isn’t trying very hard, so they’re not competitive.
It's just fucking swell. Sitcoms and "buffering" messages. /s
I've been recovering from some injuries, including surgery to my neck, so I have been stuck on a couch in front of netflix under orders from the doctors to do nothing and be bored while I heal. Since May, I've had 1 month initial, then another 2 1/2 months recovery time, not allowed to drive (painkillers), essentially prisoner in my own house.
Apart from being a completely unhealthy thing to do and contrary to my normal life style, I hadn't watched TV regularly for almost 2 years so I was kinda grateful I had nf to spare my sanity. I used the time to catch up on lots of stuff. Six weeks seems to be about when it got stale and then took about 2 weeks of absence before I could watch it again.
Like anything I found you have to leave it and do something else for a while. It's definitely possible to get bored with it. I considered popcorn time, but I just can't watch that much TV.
Frankly, I can't wait to be able to go for a run, cycle, swim or any physical activity as soon as I can.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Live TV remains far more popular than Netflix, by a significant margin (and the margin has barely changed in the last 12 months). http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/reports/2016/the-nielsen-total-audience-report-q2-2016.html
That's how most of the movie descriptions began when I had Netflix. Cheap, B grade knock offs or the 1950's version of something that was remade...for instance War of the Worlds. I pay fucking money to watch shit that was shown over and over again in the 70's on local afternoon TV??
Fuck you Netflix.
We should all eat at MacDonald's because they serve billions while a 3 Michelin Star Restaurant only serves thousands a year.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
That's a really weird metric to use. Since these services charge per month (or per year for Amazon), isn't the relevant metric individual users per month, not individual users per day? In fact, like MMOs, doesn't a service like this want its users per month metric to be high (to maximize revenue) while keeping its users per day metric low (to reduce bandwidth costs)? Though of course GB per user per month would be a more accurate assessment of bandwidth than users per day.
Even advertisers would be more interested in hours viewed per day, or hours viewed per user per day. I can't think of any way users per day is a useful stat. Maybe to someone maintaining the login servers so they know on average how many authentication requests they'll have to handle per day?
"Amazon and chill" not as catchy.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Young people haven't seen the old movies and television shows dozens of times already like older people have.
A fifteen year old movie is brand new to a fifteen year old kid. I may have seen it half a dozen times during that same fifteen years.
I don't have cable or any streaming service. Cancelled TV 4 years ago and said screw it to Netflix when they blocked unblocking services, so now I'm a pirate. I can only really do about 3 hours of straight watching before tube anxiety hits me. I then have to take a break for a few hours and can watch again.I watch the LOTR extended version a few weeks ago and could only manage one per day. I managed to watch Once Upon a Time in America extended version (250min+) but had to take a few breaks.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
All the other streaming systems appear to be sad old cable companies trying to be relevant. They just don't seem to have the customer in mind. All kind of tricks that smell like the bad old days are there. For instance their preferred products are featured heavily. They get yards of advertising on the old cable networks, they often have pricing that is hard to figure out (not all but many) with all the usual tricks such as "intro" pricing that goes through the roof after some period of months.
Then there is the whole net neutrality thing. Can you imagine if they didn't have that. Netflix would come in like it was a 9600 baud modem where they would probably stream their own services at 100mb even if you had a 15mb connection.
These baby boomer executives think that they can somehow make something that is vaguely netflix that will keep them in power. When all they have done is take their terrible abusive model and slap it onto the internet.
I was reading that the NFL is really hurting for viewers. Maybe people don't want to watch a 20 minute game spread out over many hours with nearly endless advertising and inane chatter. (the advertising is nearly endless for even when they are showing the game there are sponsors visible everywhere.
What makes me happy about this is that here is this organization that managed to pervert labor laws, get taxpayers to fund their stadiums, and have a strange monopoly on so much are suddenly faced with a situation where they can't scale back and survive. I love it.
That statistic doesn't necessarily mean that they spend 12x as much time watching Netflix. Suppose they watch Netflix every day and Amazon or Hulu every other day; that might mean only a 2x discrepancy in actual viewing. The 12x number says something about people's dedication to the site, but I'd also like to see numbers for viewing time.
they're not watching it, they're just Netflix and chillin.