CONNECTIONS™ Industry Insights

In a new Market Focus research report, Parks Associates analyzes consumers who purchase OTT video, including purchases, rentals, and subscriptions, finding that two-thirds of all U.S. broadband households now watch movies and TV programs using online video services.

The report, "OTT Video Buyers: Subscriptions and Transactions," has several key topics:

• Current subscriptions, expenditures, and platform usage
• Over-the-top video, cloud media, social media, and sec ...read more

The 18th-annual CONNECTIONS Conference concluded last week in San Francisco. The three-day event featured speakers, sponsors, and attendees from start-ups, Fortune 500, venture capitalist, public relations, and media companies representing the entertainment, access services, CE, smart home, mobility, and tech support markets. Popular session topics included wearable computing and interoperability in the Internet of Things, which focused on the challenges and revenue opportunitie ...read more

A new Parks Associates whitepaper addresses and evaluates the challenges facing service providers and platform vendors in retaining their most valuable customers. Written by Parks Associates directors of research Brett Sappington and Harry Wang, "Retaining Customers: Content, Platforms, and Video Services" finds that even though less than 5% of consumers have cut the cord to pay-TV services, combating cord-cutting and retaining customers in an evolving landscape remains a high p ...read more

Following the success of its U.S.-based connected home conference, Parks Associates recently announced the dates for the ninth-annual CONNECTIONS Europe conference. The two-day event will take place November 18-19, 2014, at the Mövenpick Hotel in Amsterdam.

According to Parks Associates, in 2014, the U.K. will have 19.8 million smartphone households and over 10 million households using cloud storage. France will have over 18.6 million smartphone households, with over 11 ...read more

Broomfield, CO, May 15, 2014 – George Land, General Manager of the Ingersoll Rand’s Nexia™ Home Intelligence participated yesterday as a speaker at the CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, hosted by Parks Associates, May 13-15 in San Francisco. George participated in the session “Integrating Products and Smart Home Platforms.” 

CONNECTIONS™ focuses on innovative solutions for the connected consumer and leading strategies to monetize digital content, mobile ap ...read more

My phone knows I have a client meeting today because I added it to my calendar. I hop in the shower to get ready – wash my hair, my face, the usual drill. I’m about to turn the shower off when my razor beeps. My razor knows I have a client meeting – my cell phone told it. My phone analyzed my calendar then sent an alert to a sensor in my razor to remind me that I need to shave…because stubble never makes a good impression.

This is just one scenario in a million that pro ...read more