The study, which surveyed 8,500 pay-TV and OTT subscribers revealed that the average global viewer spends 4.4 hours each day watching video.
TiVo Corporation has released a study that explores viewer engagement with the video content, services and devices that shape the evolving consumer entertainment experience. The study, which surveyed 8,500 pay-TV and over-the-top (OTT) subscribers across the U.S., Europe and Latin America, revealed that the average global viewer spends 4.4 hours each day watching video. Coupled with the global average of 28 minutes spent each day searching for content to watch, that is nearly five hours per day of video engagement, which amounts to 20% of daily life.
The TiVo study also found that about 90% of households are currently paying for traditional pay-TV service. However, more than 60% are also subscribing to streaming video services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu.
The traditional pay-TV subscriber base is increasingly comprised of longer tenured customers.
In the U.S., more than 50% of pay-TV subscribers have been with their service for four years or more. Subscribers with the shortest tenure are also the least dependable: more than 10% of those who have subscribed to cable for a year or less say theyre very likely to cut the cord in the next six months.
Its not just the amount of content thats grown in the last few years. People now have more screens than ever at their disposal to watch their favourite videos. Nowhere is this truer than in Latin America, where 50% of all viewing now takes place on a digital device other than a television set, according to the study. By way of comparison, viewers in the U.S. say that more than 75% of their video consumption still occurs on their TV.
Consumers today are acting as their own aggregator, piecing together what they need from a variety of video service and device combinations to suit their individual needs, said Paul Stathacopoulos, VP, Strategy, TiVo. Success in this new environment will not be about a single content source monopolising the living room, instead it will be about adapting the business model to deliver value, integrated services and personalisation to meet the evolving consumer needs.
The research findings were the result of an online survey, conducted by TiVo, of 8,500 pay-TV and OTT subscribers across seven countries worldwide with 2,500 interviews completed in the U.S., and 1,000 interviews completed each in the U.K., France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
