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Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

05/05/2025

Smart Home: User Experience, Pain Points & Support

More than a decade into its development, the smart home market is maturing, offering dozens of product types from a growing number of competitors and attracting more mainstream consumers. To attract a...

Trackers

Video Services: OTT, Pay TV

05/01/2025

Streaming Video Tracker - North American Update: April 2025

The Streaming Video Tracker, formerly known as the OTT Video Market Tracker, keeps companies abreast of 400+ North American OTT services, providing details on current players, new entrants, and trends...

White Paper

Consumer Electronics Devices

04/24/2025

Interactive and Shoppable TV: Next Wave of CTV Revenues

This white paper is an urgent call to action for CTV platforms, streaming providers, and advertisers to prioritize interactivity and leverage the technology and data already at their disposal to stren...

Trackers

Video Services: OTT, Pay TV

04/22/2025

Streaming Video Tracker: Analyst Notes, Q1 2025

The Analyst Notes for the Streaming Video Tracker, North America highlights key changes made to the Streaming Video Tracker this quarter, including any enhancements made to the streaming video tracker...

White Paper

Residential Security

04/22/2025

Home Security Reimagined: Intelligence over Hardware

This white paper explores the forces driving this transformation, the economic & technological shifts reshaping home security, and the steps the industry must take to remain relevant in a world where...

Trackers

Residential Security

04/15/2025

Smart Home and Security Tracker 2025 - March Market Update

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

Trackers

Video Services: OTT, Pay TV

04/02/2025

Streaming Video Tracker - North American Update: March 2025

The Streaming Video Tracker, formerly known as the OTT Video Market Tracker, keeps companies abreast of 400+ North American OTT services, providing details on current players, new entrants, and trends...

White Paper

MDU Research

03/27/2025

Modernizing Multifamily Housing: Retrofitting Access Control

This white paper explores how owners and operators are responding to shifting conditions by retrofitting solutions, particularly access control, into their existing properties. It provides insights in...

Consumer Insights Dashboard

Residential Security

03/21/2025

Residential Security Dashboard 4Q 2024

The Residential Security Dashboard visualizes the most important metrics informing the strategic decision making of companies across the residential security market.   Consumer Insights Dashboards...

Trackers

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

03/17/2025

Smart Home and Security Tracker 2025 - February Market Update

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

Quantified Consumer

Energy Management

03/18/2025

Smarter Energy at Home: Intelligence, Coordination, Services

Data centers and the rise of AI processing are creating incredible demands for energy on the grid. In the consumer market, rising electrification of home appliances and growing adoption and charging o...

Webinar

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

04/22/2025

Tracking the Smart Home and Security Markets

Join Parks Associates for an update on the latest smart home and security trends. This webinar, April 22 at 12 pm CT, features highlights of the firm’s consumer data, insights on the competitive la...

Blogs

pay TV

OTT

streaming

Fortune

In The News

05/09/2025

Here's Why A Trump TV Network Will Almost Certainly Fail

“Donald Trump has an audience, he has a message. It’s a matter of: can that sustain an entire network? I think it’s possible that it could,” Glenn Hower, senior analyst for media/entertainment at mark...

smartphones

PayPal

Apple Pay

mobile payments

In The News

05/09/2025

PayPal’s Popular But Apple Is The Class Favorite

PayPal is the number one mobile payment app in the U.S., according to research by Parks Associates and by quite a margin. NFC World reported that 12 percent of those polled prefer PayPal while retail-...

OTT

streaming

In The News

05/09/2025

AT&T Deal: Merger For New Media Era Or A Bad Remake?

Pay-TV operators are seeing a "slow erosion of the core business," analyst Brett Sappington at Parks Associates said. "After years of attempts to be more than just a 'dumb pipe,' pay-TV operators h...

pay TV

OTT

streaming

ET Brand Equity

In The News

05/09/2025

AT&T-Time Warner Deal: A Good Merger In The New Media Era Or A Bad Remake?

Pay-TV operators are seeing a "slow erosion of the core business," analyst Brett Sappington at Parks Associates said. "After years of attempts to be more than just a 'dumb pipe,' pay-TV operators h...

OTT

streaming

Broadband TV News

subscription

entertainment

In The News

05/09/2025

Monetising OTT: The Key Factors

Speaking in a presentation at Broadband World Forum entitled Making money in the new world of video, Brett Sappington, he said that there had been a rush to OTT in the last few years. In the US, for i...

Payment Week

mobile banking

PayPal

In The News

05/09/2025

PayPal Leads The Way In US Mobile Payments, But Retailers Not Happy

Mobile payments are still an up-and-coming new capability for consumers; while mobile banking has clearly led the way, there’s still a lot of interest in mobile payments at least in some fields. Wh...

digital media

social media

livestream

In The News

05/09/2025

Donald Trump Livestreams Third Debate On Facebook: A Glimpse Into Trump TV?

"Donald Trump has an audience, he has a message. It’s a matter of: can that sustain an entire network? I think it’s possible that it could," Glenn Hower, senior analyst for media/entertainment at mark...

smart home

home automation

voice control

IoT

In The News

05/09/2025

Who Uses Voice Recognition Technologies And Are They Satisfied?

IoT research firm Parks Associates released findings in which it says 46 percent of U.S. Millennials with smartphones use voice recognition software, including Apple’s Siri, Google Now or Microsoft’s...

OTT

streaming

digital content

entertainment

In The News

05/09/2025

Internet TV Providers Are Starting To Get More Cable-Like

“More than anything, this is yet another sign of the trend of live TV in OTT,” said Ren Bond, a research analyst who studies the online video industry at Parks Associates. “Google getting content from...

pay TV

OTT

streaming

CNET News

entertainment

In The News

05/09/2025

AT&T To Buy Time Warner In Media-Shaking $85.4B Deal

That streaming service is one way AT&T wants to ensure that younger consumers will still flow its way. A study by research firm Parks Associates found that nearly a quarter of millennial households ju...

Press Releases

01/20/2023

Number of smartphone users to quadruple, exceeding 1 billion worldwide by 2014

The demand for smartphones is creating a demographic shift among users, who will exceed 1 billion worldwide by 2014, stimulating demand for more entry-level models that offer mainstream solutions su...

smart home

home automation

voice control

MediaPost

In The News

05/09/2025

40% Already Use Voice Recognition Software, 70% Satisfied With It

Almost half (40%) of smartphone owners already use voice recognition capabilities from Apple’s Siri, Google Now or Microsoft Cortana, according to a 10,000-person survey of broadband households conduc...

smart home

voice control

IoT

Broadband TV News

In The News

05/09/2025

Voice Recognition Software Drive New IoT Use Cases

“Over 70% of voice-recognition users are satisfied with the experience of using this solution on their smartphones, which is driving experimentation with this functionality on other platforms, includi...

smart home

security

connected CE

privacy

IoT

In The News

05/09/2025

How Concerned Are Potential IoT Customers With Privacy And Data Security?

Around 40 percent of U.S. broadband households reported in a Parks Associates survey near the end of 2015 they had a recent privacy or security problem with a connected device, primarily a virus, spyw...

OTT

online video

pay TV

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

In The News

05/09/2025

AT&T-Time Warner Deal Could Spur More Mergers, Scrutiny

Beyond that, AT&T also gets revenue by licensing those movies and TV series to other pay-TV providers and subscription Net TV services such as Netflix. "Video and entertainment will remain the key dri...

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