A May study from Parks Associates showed out of 43% of U.S. households that have streamed live content in the past three months, 61% recently watched a live sporting event. Paul Erickson, director of research at Parks Associates, said in a statement sports content is “key to drawing and keeping an engaged livestream viewer base.”
From the article, "Warner Bros. Discovery, BT join forces to offer premium sports content for U.K. and Ireland" by Masha Abarinova.
The extent of the opportunity for the soon to be announced NFL+ app, which opens the possibility that all games in America’s most popular sport, could be streamed direct-to-consumer, has been revealed...
Another reason e-sports has strong growth potential is that, unlike many other sports, whose fans may only be spectators, e-sports attracts video gamers, many of whom could become e-sports competitors...
However, access for consumers likely is years away, according to Brett L. Sappington, senior director of research at Parks Associates, a market research and consulting company in Addison, Texas. "T...
Overall globally, Parks calculates that there are more than 265 million households worldwide and that there will be more than 400 million OTT video service subscriptions by 2022. While Netflix, Amazon...