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Smart Home: Products and Services

06/01/2018

Home Energy Management: Road to Net Zero

California Title 24 sets bold goals for all residential new construction to achieve zero net energy by 2020, creating market opportunities for home energy management solutions. This report outlines ho...

Quantified Consumer

Consumer Electronics and Entertainment

05/31/2018

Alternative Content Consumption

Consumers fill significant hours of their day watching preferred video from a variety of sources and across many business models. Alternative video will impact viewership, ad revenues, marketing progr...

Industry Report

Smart Home: Products and Services

05/31/2018

Global Connected Living Outlook: Expanding IoT Momentum

This report provides a big-picture assessment of the markets serving consumers’ connected lifestyle. It evaluates trends in service categories, including broadband, television, digital content, reside...

Industry Report

Smart Home: Products and Services

05/24/2018

Home Security: Channel Insights

The home security market continues to evolve, and interactive services give dealers additional value propositions. However, competitive pressure is intensifying from standalone device options, self-in...

Quantified Consumer

Smart Home: Products and Services

05/15/2018

360 View: Smart Home Buyer Journey and User Experience

The competition for the smart home is heating up, as the number and breadth of product and systems entering the home are increasing. Understanding consumer purchase behaviors and preferences is critic...

Industry Report

Consumer Electronics and Entertainment

05/14/2018

Smart TVs vs. Streaming Media Players: Winning Over Consumers

Smart TVs and streaming media players provide similar streaming functionality, effectively competing for primary use as a consumer’s preferred interface to streamed content. However, each has unique s...

Industry Report

Smart Home: Products and Services

05/04/2018

Interoperability and the Internet of Things

As smart home devices proliferate, interoperability is the key to creating true smart home systems. This report examines the importance of interoperability and provides an analysis of the communicatio...

White Paper

Consumer Electronics and Entertainment

04/28/2018

Market Snapshot - OTT and Pay TV: Partnerships and Competition

This Market Snapshot updates the consumer research and analyzes trends reshaping the U.S. entertainment marketplace. Topics New audience groups in the U.S. market and the impact they have on...

Quantified Consumer

Smart Home: Products and Services

04/27/2018

Smart Home Devices: User Experience

As adoption of smart home products pushes forward, the market must cross the chasm, and move to a segment that needs validation that the product performs well prior to purchase. Given that Net Promote...

Webinar

Consumer Electronics and Entertainment

04/17/2018

Enabling the Integrated Life, Enhancing the AV Experience

This webinar explores new opportunities for AV solution providers, highlights challenges and smart tech advances, and the role of integrators as different sectors converge into a unified AV experience...

Blogs

The Streamable

OTT

streaming

advertising

In The News

04/27/2026

Streaming Users Could Save $366 per Year by Switching to Ad-Supported Streaming; Average Customer Has 5.6 Services

New data from Parks Associates reveals that users could save $366 per year by switching to ad-supported plans. The data also shows that the average streaming household is subscribed to 5.6 servic...

CONNECTIONS

europe

home networks

smart home

Press Releases

01/20/2023

11% of Spanish Homes with Broadband Already have a Control System for Smart Homes

Spain surpasses the United Kingdom and Germany in the use of Home Automation Services On the 18th and 19th of November the Connections Europe 2014 event will take place in Amsterdam. It i...

digital media

online video

OTT

pay TV

smart TV

Press Releases

04/27/2026

Comcast's New Smart TV Licensing Strategy

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Comcast is in talks with Walmart to partner on a new line of smart TVs. The smart TVs would be running Comcast's X1 operating system, which powers the...

Google

home safety

security

smart home

Smart Home

04/27/2026

What does Google’s investment mean for the home security market?

Yesterday, Google announced that it will invest $450 million in ADT and work with the Florida-headquartered firm’s 20,000 technicians to sell and install the search giant’s Nest family of smart home p...

smartphones

Wi-Fi

Comcast

internet

T-Mobile

Broadband/Communications

04/27/2026

Comcast Dipped its Toe into the Wireless Business

Yesterday, Comcast officially unveiled its wireless ambition. It now offers a mobile service featuring unlimited voice and data starting from $45 per month (other non-unlimited data plan options are a...

COVID-19

smart home

Wi-Fi

Smart Home

04/27/2026

The Smart Home in 2031

With the exception of the high-end, luxury home market, consumers are still working to “build” their smart homes — by buying single devices and connecting them to create an experience that provides va...

care management

connected CE

Connected Health Summit

Internet of Things

wearable

Health

04/27/2026

Earbuds Evolve into a Health Monitoring Device

With rising consumer interest and hot venture money, the wearables market for health and wellness has taken a significant stride forward. The industry is currently fixated on who can dominate the wris...

smart home

home automation

MDUs

Quantified Consumer

multifamily property

Smart Home

04/27/2026

Smart, Safe, and Secure Apartment Living

With record new inventory hitting the market, the multifamily housing industry is growing increasingly competitive. Newer and older properties must vie for renters, and key decision makers are looking...

cord cutting

digital media

OTT

smart TV

streaming

Entertainment

04/27/2026

Standing Out in a Saturated OTT Market

With over 400 OTT streaming providers available to choose from in North America, consumers today are constantly barraged with an endless amount of entertainment options. Combined with inconsistent use...

Amazon

Apple

audio

connected CE

Google

home automation

smart home

Consumer Electronics Devices

04/27/2026

Amazon Sells Out of Echo and Tap

With news that Amazon is officially sold out (online) of Echo and Tap products until after the holidays, it looks like the smart speaker with personal assistant technology category has found its legs....

Amazon

Internet of Things

OTT

smartphones

Broadband and Mobility

04/27/2026

Sprint Partners with Amazon to Offer Amazon Prime to Customers: Parks Associates Insights

With growing adoption of bigger screen smartphones and LTE-enabled tablets, American consumers are spending more time for entertainment on mobile platforms than ever. According to recent Parks Associa...

COVID-19

privacy

security

home networks

Broadband/Communications

04/27/2026

Ransomware Attacks Increased Almost 500% in 2020

With global cybercrime, damages already estimated near $1 trillion in 2019,[1] the threat to businesses and their remote employees surged as lockdowns and social distancing first hit in early 2020. Or...

Internet of Things

interoperability

smart home

Smart Home

04/27/2026

IoT Mass Market Adoption: Impact of Interoperability & Ease of Use

With an estimated 20 to 50 billion cloud connected and IoT products by 2020, established players and new entrants are looking at ways to create a seamless connected experience and how interoperability...

smart home

CONNECTIONS

remote health monitoring

connected health devices

Consumer Electronics Devices

04/27/2026

Medical Devices Offer New Growth Opportunities for the Smart Home Industry

With adoption of connected health and smart home technology growing, interest is rising in how to connect these two experiences. We’ve seen in-home consumer electronics devices start to become HIPAA c...

cord cutting

OTT

streaming

Video Services: OTT, Pay TV

04/27/2026

Four Trends in Retention and Churn Among OTT Services

With a more competitive landscape in the OTT market, viewer retention is a commodity. As new and established entrants maximize retention and minimize churn, several key trends have emerged. The Big...

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