Providing market intelligence for more than 35 years

Search Results

Products

White Paper

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

12/23/2024

Consumer IoT Product Development: Managing Costs, Optimizing Revenues

This white paper evaluates the primary product and ongoing costs associated with smart home products and services. It highlights pain points in the product development process and shares strategies fo...

Quantified Consumer

Wi-Fi and Home Networking

12/19/2024

New Competition in Broadband: 5G Home Internet & Fiber

The market dynamics for residential broadband in the US market are changing. As competition ramps up across the country, internet service providers face new questions around how to best attract and re...

Consumer Insights Dashboard

Consumer Electronics Devices

12/17/2024

Tech Ecosystem Dashboard: Q3 2024

The Tech Ecosystem Dashboard visualizes the most important metrics informing the strategic decision making of companies connected to the leading consumer electronics devices in the home. Consumer I...

Market Forecasts

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

12/10/2024

Smart MDUs: Property-Provided Internet and Smart Devices 2024

The US multifamily market is an increasingly important sector for technology services and products. Parks Associates considers the size of the US smart multifamily market as the foundation of the over...

Trackers

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

12/10/2024

Smart Home and Security Tracker 2024 - November 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

Wi-Fi and Home Networking

12/03/2024

Broadband Market Tracker Q3 2024

Includes both "Profiles and Estimates, Q3 2024" for US and Canadian home internet services and "Q3 2024 News and Analysis." The Broadband Market Tracker provides estimates for residential home inte...

Trackers

Video Services: OTT, Pay TV

12/02/2024

Streaming Video Tracker - North American Update: November 2024

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...

Consumer Insights Dashboard

Wi-Fi and Home Networking

11/22/2024

Home Services Dashboard Q3 2024

The Home Services Dashboard visualizes the most important metrics informing the strategic decision making of companies providing communications services to the home.   Consumer Insights Dashboards...

Consumer Insights Dashboard

Video Services: OTT, Pay TV

11/20/2024

Video Services Dashboard 3Q 2024

The Video Services Dashboard provides a visual representation of the most critical indicators used by organizations that provide video services to the home to make strategic decisions. Request more...

Trackers

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

11/15/2024

Smart Home and Security Tracker 2024 - Q3 Competitor Landscape: Platforms and Products*

*This is a beta release of our new format, and we are actively seeking feedback on how we can improve future releases, please contact and let us know* ------------------- This product is part of the...

Quantified Consumer

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

11/14/2024

Single-Family Renters: Connectivity & Smart Home

The single-family rental market is growing as constrained housing inventory and high interest rates push more consumers to rent.  Residents, landlords, and property management companies have unique sa...

Trackers

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

11/08/2024

Smart Home and Security Tracker 2024 - October 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

11/01/2024

Streaming Video Tracker - North American Update: October 2024

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...

Quantified Consumer

Residential Security

11/01/2024

Home Security & Monitoring: Subscriber Churn and Retention

The security market has evolved to meet consumer demand for choice in systems, devices, installation methods, purchase methods, and monitoring services.  Professional monitoring, video storage, and ot...

Blogs

pay TV

OTT

streaming

Fortune

In The News

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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

12/30/2024

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...

Pages