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04/28/2026

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...

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Google

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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...

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Smart Home

04/28/2026

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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Smart Home

04/28/2026

Big Acquisitions Mark this Week in the Smart Home

This week was marked by a flurry of acquisition activity in the smart home segment that could have significant long-term repercussions. First, Spectrum Brands has agreed to sell their home and hardwar...

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Smart Home

04/28/2026

Tech Companies and Third Parties Address Data Privacy

This week it was revealed that Apple uses contractors to review Siri recordings, which exposes the recordings of Apple customers’ personal lives including recordings of doctor visits and other persona...

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Support Services

04/28/2026

Parks Associates’ Take on the Yahoo Security Breach

This week in the Wall Street Journal, Brad Russell, Research Analyst at Parks Associates, provided some tips on what Yahoo users can do to protect themselves after yesterday’s news of a security breac...

digital music

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04/28/2026

TIDAL and Sprint: New Music Streaming Partnerships

This is an interesting time to be in music streaming. Competition is rife, and the margins are thin. The largest players are either unicorns in search of profitability (i.e., Spotify, Pandora) or tech...

big data

connected CE

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Smart Home

04/28/2026

Context is King in Realizing the Vision of the Smart (and Connected) Home

This is an excerpt from Parks Associates research report, Context is King: Video & Audio Analytics, by Chris White, Research Director, Parks Associates. Context is king in realizing the vision of t...

energy

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Smart Home

04/28/2026

The Role of Utilities and Builders in Home Energy Management

This growing emphasis on smart home solutions and interoperability comes as utilities are amid an enormous transition changing how energy is generated and delivered. Driven by a massive shift to renew...

smart home

home automation

MDUs

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Smart Home

04/28/2026

Home Builders and Smart Home Tech: Enabling New Services

This expansion of smart home adoption in the builder channel creates new opportunities for smart home manufacturers and service providers to dovetail solutions that can meet the unique needs of large-...

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Health

04/28/2026

Health + Home: The Role of Tech in Modern Living

This article is compiled from a presentation by Jennifer Kent, VP of Research at Parks Associates, during the firm's 8th annual Connected Health Summit. Today there are at least four main models de...

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04/28/2026

SoftAtHome: IoT home security weakness great chance for operators

They say every cloud has a silver lining and that is certainly true for broadband operators in the wake of one of the biggest DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks yet and one which significant...

digital media

OTT

pay TV

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Entertainment

04/28/2026

What is causing the decline in TV antenna usage?

There’s been an ongoing shift by the local news industry towards taking advantage of OTT/streaming opportunities when it comes to distribution and reach. It recently started gaining critical mass in 2...

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04/28/2026

Top Entertainment Trends from CES 2018

There was no shortage of key entertainment announcements and takeaways from CES 2018 last month in Las Vegas. Here are the top trends from the event impacting the connected entertainment landscape:...

cloud services

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Entertainment

04/28/2026

Consumer Interest in Gaming Continues

There is no doubt the cloud gaming market is at an inflection point, with major heavyweights getting increasingly involved over the past 18 months. As of 2021, 75% of heads of US broadband households...

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