Millennials Lead Way Among OTT-Only Households
Twenty-three percent of broadband households headed by millennials have completely opted out of traditional pay-TV service for over-the-top (OTT) streaming, a Parks Associates survey...
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Twenty-three percent of broadband households headed by millennials have completely opted out of traditional pay-TV service for over-the-top (OTT) streaming, a Parks Associates survey...
T.S. Eliot called April the cruelest month, but for electronics and appliance dealers May has proven itself a serious contender. According to the latest...
T-Mobile subscribers are more satisfied with their wireless service than subscribers of the three other national carriers, and Consumer Cellular is tops among non-contract...
Memorial Day is a key promotional period for the major appliance business, and last month national chains and independent Mega Group USA dealers didn’t...
As if we needed further proof, a new consumer study adds another dimension to Amazon’s dominance of the consumer electronics industry. According to a...
Back-to-school spending is expected to edge up this summer following an anemic 2015 selling season. According to market research firm eMarketer, total back-to-school (BTS)...
We knew this day was coming: According to a UPS report, online orders have finally surpassed in-store purchases. The study, conducted by ComScore and...
Electronics are the fourth most popular gift for Father’s Day 2016 a new consumer survey shows, with the category edging up 2 percent in...
Drones are skyrocketing at retail. Sales of the high-flying devices for the trailing 12 months through April 2016 have soared 224 percent vs. the...
Worldwide tablet shipments will drop in 2016 for the second consecutive year and will continue falling until 2018, when a “slight rebound” driven by...
Think your cellular plan has enough data? Think again. Video usage will drive average data consumption of smartphones in North America to 22GB/month in...
Wanna make Dad happy on Father’s Day? Give him a tablet. Or a vacation. Or tickets to a sporting event. The latter two were...
T-Mobile and Sprint made big gains in customer satisfaction in the past year, while Apple eased past Samsung in consumer handset satisfaction, the University...
Women in the U.S. use their smartphones more than men, and premium-phone owners use their devices more than owners of entry-level phones, causing them...
Smart-home apps available from installing service providers and cable companies are held in higher regard by consumers than the apps that come with DIY...
North American household penetration of 4K Ultra HD TVs will jump from 5 percent in 2015 to 48 percent in 2020, driven by U.S....
Amazon beat Apple for the second consecutive year in offering the best customer experience among tablet and computers makers in the U.S., the latest...
Two percent of broadband-equipped U.S. households, or 2.3 million households in all, already own a virtual reality headset, and 5 percent of broadband households...
Global wearable-device shipments, including basic wearables and smart watches, rose more than 67 percent in the first quarter to 19.7 million units, with Fitbit...
April sell-through for CE and appliance dealers was down 2 percent year over year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. The agency’s monthly retail sales...
U.S. tech suppliers eyeing the five largest markets in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will find big differences in what consumers buy, why they buy,...
A survey of independents by the National Retail Federation (NRF) confirms what dealers and buying groups have been saying for years: Small businesses are...
Americans have cast their votes, not at the ballot box but at the set-top box, and TWICE has declared a winner: streaming video. According...
The market for smart clothing and body sensors is developing rapidly, with a proliferation of form factors and a high level of innovation in...
More home builders said installed smart-home technology is driving up their revenues, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) found in its 14th annual builder survey....
Factory shipments of major appliances were up nearly 7 percent in March, ending the first quarter of 2016 on a high note. Driving the...
Sorry Walmart: Amazon offers the best deals for electronics. Lowe’s, meanwhile, bests The Home Depot in major appliances. That’s according to recent findings...
Tech shoppers are among the stingiest consumers when it comes to repeat business. According to a new study by Stitch Labs, return customers typically...
Sales for electronics and appliance dealers decreased 2.1 percent year over year in March, to about $8.5 billion, and were flat from February, the...
Networked surveillance cameras are leading the adoption of smart-home technology, Parks Associates said in releasing consumer-survey results during ISC West. Nine percent of U.S....
The number of broadband-connected households with a game console will fall to less than 50 percent by 2019 from today’s 58 percent, thanks to...
By now, all retailers theoretically should have upgraded their checkout terminals to accept the newest high-tech plastic. To review, the latest generation of credit...
Online music streaming accounted for the largest share of U.S. music-industry revenues for the first time in 2015, nudging ahead of downloads, the Recording...
Factory shipments of the six major white-goods categories rose 11.7 percent in February, to about 3.1 million units, according to the Association of Home...
February sales slipped 3.2 percent year over year for CE and appliance dealers, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. According to the agency’s monthly sales...
Flat-panel TV shipments in North America grew 2 percent in units in the fourth quarter of 2015, but full-year 2015 sales nonetheless fell 1...
North American smartphone sales grew at a faster pace than global sales in 2015, but North American unit and dollar sales went south in...
U.S. unlocked smartphone shipments grew 140 percent in the U.S. to a record 14.6 million units in 2015, and sales will grow another 58...
A new study reveals that there are at least 110 million iPhones operating [n the U.S., with almost three quarters of them iPhone 6...
Retail sales for CE and appliance dealers fell 4.2 percent last month, to $8.5 billion, and were flat from December, the U.S. Commerce Department...
Job growth and higher wages are expected to drive a 3.1 percent increase in retail sales this year, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has...
Smartphones owners can’t keep their content on their phone, a Parks Associates survey of broadband households found. Thirty-five percent of smartphone owners stream music...