Would you ever attend a reality TV show watch party? A CivicScience poll of nearly 3,900 U.S. adults reveals that 42% of Americans show some interest in these communal viewing experiences, with 14% saying they would definitely attend and 28% expressing conditional interest. While the concept remains niche, it has found a dedicated following among […]| Polls and Insights
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As nostalgia continues to dominate entertainment, many Americans are turning to old TV shows and movies for comfort. But when it comes to reboots, opinions are split. A new CivicScience survey shows that only 6% of U.S. adults are all for reboots, whether they follow the same or a different storyline, while 38% say they’re […]| Polls and Insights
CivicScience clients and partners have access to our millions of daily survey responses, allowing them to generate actionable, forward-looking strategies. See what you’re missing here. Hulu stands out in the streaming world with its mix of live TV, next-day network episodes, and an expanding slate of original programming. That reach is only expected to grow, as [...] Read More... from Which Restaurants Win—and Lose—with Hulu Ad-Tier Subscribers The post Which Restaurants Win—and Lose...| CivicScience
CivicScience clients and partners have access to our millions of daily survey responses, allowing them to generate actionable, forward-looking strategies. See what you’re missing here. With more and more platforms entering the fray, NFL fans will need to subscribe to no fewer than six streaming services this year to watch every game. That’s to say [...] Read More... from Fall and Winter Sports Look to Fuel a Fragile Boom in Sports Streaming Subscriptions—Will It Last? The post Fall and...| CivicScience
CivicScience is a consumer analytics and advertising platform that captures over one million survey responses daily. Turn real-time data into actionable insights here. Taylor Swift is one of the biggest names in the music industry. With the recent announcement of an upcoming new album, this is one artist whose music will no doubt be taking [...] Read More... from 5 Unexpected Differences Between New and Longtime Taylor Swift Fans The post 5 Unexpected Differences Between New and Longtime Ta...| CivicScience
Adobe Firefly just added new tools for AI-generated video, sound effects, and avatars—plus access to models from Runway, Google, and more.| Maginative
While the live stream of the Super Bowl broadcast receives a lot of media attention due to its high viewership, events that last longer and are delivered in multiple countries around the world have more complex streaming pipelines. Across 30 days, DAZN live-streamed 63 matches of the FIFA Club World Cup for free in 200 […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
At a press conference, MLS Commissioner Don Garber said MLS Season Pass is “averaging 120,000 unique viewers” per match and is “almost a 50%” increase from 2024. We don’t know if the provided number represents the peak concurrent viewers or the average minute audience (AMA). In 2022, ESPN reported that the 2022 MLS regular season audience […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Here’s a list of TV and streaming viewership stats for recent sports events and seasons across baseball, golf, tennis, car racing, hockey, soccer and other sporting events: ⚾ The MLB Home Run Derby averaged 5.73M viewers on ESPN, a 5% increase over last year (2024 game competed with the Republican National Convention. The MLB All-Star Game averaged […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
It was only a matter of time before Netflix shared more details on its live streaming infrastructure. Today, in the first of a series of tech blog posts, Netflix provides a detailed examination of the architecture behind its live streaming events and the lessons learned during their development. As Netflix rightfully points out, a unique […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to review Bending Spoons' product roadmap for its Brightcove platform, providing the company with| Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com
The new guardrails may help the platform stay one step ahead of a growing crop of age verification laws cropping up across the country.| The Daily Upside
Some want to suggest that the “success” of the F1 movie at the box office shows that Apple can and will make more movies of this scale for theatres. However, Apple’s interest in the F1 movie extends far beyond the content. Apple spent a year developing advanced camera technology to capture the sheer force of […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Watch your favorite movies and TV shows without going on OnStream. See the best Onstream alternatives that offer HD movies, TV shows| Silicon Africa
A recent CivicScience survey of 2,019 U.S. adults sheds light on how Americans prefer to experience movies in theaters, and the answers reveal a wide range of| Polls and Insights
As Cisco renews its partnership with famed soccer club Real Madrid, this blog will celebrate the extension of the relationship -- diving into what has made the mutual connection a success and how Cisco is on the frontlines powering Real Madrid and its Santiago Bernabeau stadium into a new era of sports, technology, and innovation.| Cisco Blogs
This is only a glimpse of the data available to CivicScience clients. Discover more data. It’s true: Americans aren’t going to movie theaters like they used to and probably never will. The global pandemic in 2020 and its fallout changed many things, and going to the movies is one activity where the change became the new [...]Read More... from The Real Reason People Still Aren’t Going to Movie Theaters| CivicScience
Phenix Real Time Solutions’ assets have been put up for public bidding by their VC firm, KB Partners. Phenix has been trying to sell the company for many months but has not been able to get the valuation they wanted. The company had approximately $5M in 2024 revenue and wasn’t profitable. By my last count, […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Netflix has just entered the live TV business and will add live TV channels to its service in France. In a deal with TF1, starting summer 2026, all| Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com
Organizations managing large audio and video archives face significant challenges in extracting value from their media content. Consider a radio network with thousands of broadcast hours across multiple stations and the challenges they face to efficiently verify ad placements, identify interview segments, and analyze programming patterns. In this post, we demonstrate how you can automatically transform unstructured media files into searchable, analyzable content.| Amazon Web Services
Happy Towel Day! Today is an annual tribute to the life and work of Douglas Adams generally celebrated by fans around the universe by carrying a towel in his honor. I, for one, will be carrying a towel with me all day today. According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a towel is "about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."| Shelly Palmer
Despite widespread recognition of streaming piracy, quantifying and combating it remains a significant challenge. Conversations and presentations during the recent 2025 NAB Show highlighted the industry’s ongoing concern, with many content owners talking privately about the problem. While few content owners are willing to speak openly about piracy’s impact on their bottom line and what […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
FOX has released new technical details on its 2025 Super Bowl stream, including the rebuffer rate (0.5%), percentage of viewership in 4K (28%), peak CDN capacity (135 Tbps), and where it invested in its video workflow architecture. At the 2025 NAB Streaming Summit, Mayur Srinivasan, SVP of Digital Video Platform at Fox Corporation, did a […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Google has been pretty quiet about its Media CDN offering, but that’s changing as the company has signed multiple large M&E customers and added more capacity and new functionality. The company has allowed me to disclose that Google Media CDN has over 100Tbps of egress capacity and growing. Not to be confused with Google Cloud […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
For the final NCAA March Madness game available on Max Saturday March 29th, I did a quick test of the stream across nine platforms and looked at the quality of the stream, encoding bitrates, key moments feature and CDNs used. It was an excellent experience with fast startup times, no rebuffering and a great picture […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
At the end of 2023, privately held Bitmovin allowed me to disclose that revenue was in the “Twenties Million” range for the year. Bitmovin says that at the end of 2024, the company reached free cash flow and grew revenue by 20%. This puts Bitmovin 2025 revenue in the $30M+ range and growing. Bitmovin’s collaboration […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
In a galaxy not so far away, a recent survey conducted by CivicScience reveals intriguing insights into the preferences of ‘Star Wars’ fans, just in time for Star Wars Day on May 4th. The survey, which gathered responses from over 50,000 U.S. users, focused on favorite characters from the original 1977 film. Among the standout […] The post Star Wars Day: Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader Insights appeared first on What We're Seeing.| What We're Seeing
In the race to harness AI's transformative potential, success stories are emerging across the Fortune 500. Yet even the most well-managed organizations face a common challenge: how to align numerous AI initiatives toward a cohesive strategic vision.| Shelly Palmer
The Authors Guild – the nation’s oldest and largest professional organization for published writers – has launched the Human Authored Certification, which allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. "Human Authored" means that the text of the book was written by a human and not generated by AI, with the exception of minimal or trivial uses (such as AI applications that check spelling and grammar or for brainstorming or research).| Shelly Palmer
Americans' Media Consumption Seems to Be Down Across the Board This Year| Marketing Charts