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Year In Review: Livestreaming, Mobile Drive Online Video Space

Windowing, or the tiered pricing and scheduling around the release of premium video content, could be on its way toward a major overhaul in 2017. As Parks Associates analyst Glenn Hower pointed out, transactional VOD and pay-per-view rentals have been declining in past years while SVOD services have continued to gain market share and customer awareness. According to Hower, households spend an average of less than $1 per month buying and renting digital video.

From the article "Year In Review: Livestreaming, Mobile Drive Online Video Space" by Ben Munson.

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