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J.D. Power: OTT Video Satisfaction Is Higher Than For Traditional Pay-TV

The results really shouldn’t be very surprising; numerous market research studies have been indicating as much for quite some time now.

Just over a year ago, Parks Associates forecast that OTT video service subscription revenues would continue to exhibit strong growth, rising from nearly $9 billion in 2014 to more than $19 billion in 2019. Nearly 6 in 10 (57 percent) of U.S. broadband households subscribed to an OTT video service, Parks highlighted.

From the article "J.D. Power: OTT Video Satisfaction Is Higher Than For Traditional Pay-TV" by Andrew Burger.

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