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Consumer Electronics and Entertainment

01/05/2026

Streaming Video Tracker - North American Update: December 2025

The Streaming Video Tracker keeps companies informed of all major North American OTT services, providing details on current players, new entrants, and trends in the OTT video services market. Services...

White Paper

Consumer Electronics and Entertainment

01/05/2026

S.O.S. State of Streaming

This report provides an in-depth look at the ongoing transformation of the video services landscape as the market continues to evolve from traditional pay TV to digital and streaming-based models. The...

White Paper

Smart Home: Products and Services

01/02/2026

Defining the Smart Home Market: An Industry Guide

An Industry Guide This guide provides a concise overview of the smart home market, defining key technologies, players, and trends shaping a rapidly maturing and service-driven ecosystem, based on m...

Smart Product Market Assessment

Smart Home: Products and Services

12/31/2025

Access Control in the Smart Home: Locks and Garage Door Openers

Smart access control solutions, including locks, external video devices, and smart garage door openers, are among the leading smart home products; they deliver on the core value propositions of conven...

Quantified Consumer

Consumer Electronics and Entertainment

12/31/2025

Streaming Competition and Profitability: Pricing Models & Retention Strategies

As streaming platforms refine their pricing strategies and content offerings, understanding consumer sentiment is critical to driving growth and retention. This study provides a comprehensive analysis...

Quantified Consumer

Smart Home: Products and Services

04/01/2026

Connected Consumer Privacy & Security in the AI Era

As connected devices, digital services, and artificial intelligence become embedded in everyday life, consumer concern about data use, surveillance, and digital vulnerability continues to grow. Buildi...

Industry Report

Smart Home: Products and Services

12/30/2025

Home Security: State of the Market & Outlook

Home Security: State of the Market & Outlook examines the rapidly evolving residential security industry, grounded in Parks Associates’ latest consumer data, market tracking, and competitive intellige...

Consumer Insights Dashboard

Consumer Electronics and Entertainment

12/30/2025

Tech Ecosystem Dashboard: Q3 2025

The Tech Ecosystem Dashboard visualizes the most important metrics informing the strategic decision making of companies connected to the leading consumer electronics devices in the home. Consumer I...

Webinar

Connected Health and Wellness

12/16/2025

Healthy Home: Sensors and Services

Creating healthier living environments is a key trend in the smart home market, with sensors and services playing a crucial role. This session explores the latest advancements in health monitoring, ai...

Consumer Insights Dashboard

Broadband and Mobility

12/16/2025

Home Services Dashboard Q3 2025

The Home Services Dashboard visualizes the most important metrics informing the strategic decision making of companies providing communications services to the home.   Consumer Insights Dashboards...

Webinar

Smart Home: Products and Services

12/12/2025

Smart Home Technologies for Energy Management

As homes become increasingly connected, the role of smart devices in optimizing energy use is more significant than ever. This session features the latest innovations in HVAC, smart thermostats, energ...

Trackers

Smart Home: Products and Services

12/10/2025

Smart Home and Security Tracker 2025 - November Update

This product is part of the Smart Home and Security Market Tracker service. Contact Parks Associates for info on subscribing to this service. The Smart Home and Security Market Tracker provides mar...

Quantified Consumer

Broadband and Mobility

12/10/2025

The Business of Broadband: VAS and Super Aggregation

Consumers are increasingly interested in bundling multiple services alongside their home internet. Convergence of home internet and mobile service is a major force driving the strategies of both telco...

Smart Product Market Assessment

Smart Home: Products and Services

12/09/2025

Smart Video Products: Business Models & Features

Smart video products lead the smart home devices market in adoption and recurring service revenues, but growing competition threatens to commoditize the category.  This report examines key industry tr...

Blogs

OTT

Future of Video

streaming

Video Services: OTT, Pay TV

01/11/2026

The Triumph of Streaming: How it Won Against Pay TV

Today’s viewers consume video content across a range of content types and business models, gravitating toward online streaming services instead of traditional cable and satellite to meet their enterta...

OTT

pay TV

streaming

Press Releases

01/11/2026

OTT Customer Acquisition: Opportunities and Challenges – Webinar co-hosted by Parks Associates and Brightcove

Today’s OTT market is defined by the proliferation of service offerings, unprecedented amounts of online video content, and ever-increasing access points to that content. As a result, OTT content and...

Amazon

smart home

voice control

smart speakers

Consumer Electronics Devices

01/11/2026

Amazon gives Alexa devices price cut before HomePod gets on the shelves

Today is Amazon’s Prime Day (7/11). In the past week, noteworthy discounts on Amazon’s Alexa-powered devices has been top tech news. As of Q2/2017, Amazon’s smart speakers with the Alexa personal assi...

connected CE

smart home

smartphones

virtual reality

Consumer Electronics Devices

01/11/2026

Facebook's Developer Conference Addresses Trends in Connected CE

Today Facebook will address the changing environment for consumers to communicate, including the introduction of AI, VR, social sharing models, and more, at its F8 Developer Conference. Companies in c...

gaming

Apple

virtual reality

metaverse

headsets

Entertainment

01/11/2026

Apple Vision Pro: New Reality for Immersive Experiences

Today Apple unveiled its Apple Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, designed for developers first at $3,499, and with an uncertain release date pegged for “early 2024”. Extended reality / metavers...

digital content

online video

OTT

pay TV

smart TV

streaming

Entertainment

01/11/2026

“Friday Night Baseball” Returns on Apple TV+ for the 2023 MLB Season

Today Apple announced the return of “Friday Night Baseball” on Apple TV+ for the 2023 season and is once again focused on the consumer experience first, including discovery and interactive features. I...

Internet of Things

smart home

Amazon

internet

Smart Home

01/11/2026

Today: a small but significant step in the direction of the intelligent home

Today Amazon Dash services go live for a number of household brands including GE (washing machines), Brother (printers), and GMate (smart glucose monitors), according to Techcrunch. These devices will...

CONNECTIONS

In The News

01/11/2026

Fourth annual conference on residential gateways and home networking

To address these changes in the DSL and cable modem market, Parks Associates and CABA are hosting their fourth annual conference on residential gateways and home networking.  The conference will addre...

Internet of Things

millennials

OTT

smart TV

streaming

Press Releases

01/11/2026

Millennials & TV: Big Appetites, Little Patience

TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), the global leader in entertainment technology and audience insights, today released follow-up findingsfrom its 2016 TiVo consumer survey, focusing on the behavior of U.S. millenni...

CES

CONNECTIONS

digital media

home automation

home networks

independent living

online video

operator

smart home

smart TV

tech support

Press Releases

01/11/2026

Addressing the Broadband Coverage Gap: Improving Quality of Life

Throughout 2020, the United States’ broadband coverage gap was recognized as a major issue impacting Americans’ safety, quality of life, and ability to participate in work and schooling. According to...

streaming

broadband

internet

mobile internet

Press Releases

01/11/2026

Broadband “Switchers”: Better Alternative, Impact of COVID-19, and Poor Speeds Driving Changes

Throughout 2020 and 2021, broadband service providers have been continually put to task to deliver an optimal-performing service at an affordable cost. Providers who could not produce results risked c...

digital content

OTT

streaming

Press Releases

01/11/2026

Importance of Content in SVOD Services

Though many services tout a long list of service features and various value-adds, differentiation in the SVOD market relies heavily on the content made available to consumers. The top three OTT SVOD s...

smart home

security

CES

IoT

CONNECTIONS Summit

AI

machine learning

Smart Home

01/11/2026

CES 2025: Top 5 Smart Home Trends

This year at CES, the Parks Associates team saw many new technologies that are making the connected home experience more valuable through more “smarts” in advanced applications across security, energy...

connected CE

Google

streaming

Smart Home

01/20/2023

Chromecast monthly use - among all owners

This week, GigaOm, FierceCable, and Streaming Media wrote about data that Google announced at their developers conference that seems to contradict our Chromecast research. However, the articles do a g...

Apple

connected CE

online video

OTT

smart TV

smartphones

virtual reality

Smart Home

01/11/2026

LeEco Moves on the American Market with Strong Content/Ecosystem Play

This week, Chinese CE device and entertainment company LeEco made impressive announcements about its U.S. market entry plans. Which market? All of them. LeEco makes phones, bikes, VR headsets, and eve...

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