The NBA teams settled into the bubble, completing their return to the season to determine seeding for the impending playoffs. Fans were hungry for a look at how their teams stacked up on the court and what life in the…
Read more ›The NHL restart is heating up, both on and off the ice. After 9 straight days of hockey and over 40 games, the Stanley Cup Playoff bracket is set. There was heartbreak and more than a few surprises during the…
Read more ›Sport and television are inextricably linked. Diehard fans and passive watchers alike have made sport media a multi-billion dollar industry. However, COVID-19 put the sport industry, and by proxy television, in a precarious position. While European stay-at-home viewers consumed more…
Read more ›If you followed this year’s CES, you probably heard about the streaming wars. Its presence was inescapable. While there were still plenty of new gadgets and Smart TVs showcased on the show floor, it was the streaming news that captured…
Read more ›The nation’s top four men’s college basketball teams are set to face off after a flurry of activity over the past week for the Sweet 16 and Elite 8. With top teams dominating much of the tournament, the resulting heavyweight…
Read more ›March Madness is an appropriate moniker for the 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, which kicks off with 48 games played in just 4 short days. While 2018’s tournament saw major upsets, including a 16-seed team defeating a one-seed who was favored to win it all, 2019 has been comparatively unremarkable.
Read more ›What does it look like when democracy plays out in full view of the American public? Something like what we witnessed as Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s “long-time fixer,” publicly testified before the House Oversight Committee. Streaming presents unique advantages for…
Read more ›While many news outlets are penning opinion pieces about Super Bowl LIII being a dud for both entertainment value and traditional TV ratings, Conviva has a different take: yesterday saw yet another win for streaming TV. The low-scoring game between…
Read more ›There are many parallels that can be drawn between live sports and elections. Each has underdogs and reigning favorites, rallying victories and crushing defeats, and for many their allegiance to a team or party is inextricably linked to their identity.…
Read more ›IBC is one of the streaming TV industry’s largest events of the year, bringing together Conviva customers from around the globe to network and learn about the latest in the streaming TV industry. As we close another IBC, it’s with…
Read more ›During the final game of the World Cup, Conviva measured a massive 9.12 million peak concurrent plays (PCP), smashing previous records as more than 9M people tuned in at once to see Croatia take on France. Previously, the record for peak concurrency was…
Read more ›The World Cup semi-finals provided the most engaging games of the series thus far, with an astronomical 83.8 minutes of viewing time on average per unique viewer. Compared to the 64.6 minutes of viewing time on average per unique viewer Conviva…
Read more ›Over the four games of the World Cup quarter finals, Conviva measured 75.8M attempts resulting in 63.5M successful plays and more than 23.3M hours viewed. The most streamed game of the series was Uruguay vs France, accounting for more than…
Read more ›World Cup, Week One, as Measured by Conviva As the first week of the 2018 World Cup (June 14-20) comes to a close, Conviva looks at their top ten World Cup streaming publishers globally (primarily in North America, Asia, and…
Read more ›An Analysis of the 2018 NBA Finals Streaming TV Trends (based on Conviva data) After just four short games, the Warriors comfortably swept the Cavaliers in the 2018 NBA Finals, with Conviva in on every second of the action to…
Read more ›A Streaming TV Audience Analysis A Quick Look Back to Set the Stage In the 2017 NBA Finals, King James fell short, much to the chagrin of Cleveland and to the joy of the Bay Area. As the historic fourth…
Read more ›Conviva was honored to share our compelling new study, The Secret Life of Streamers, Part II, at events in the UK and Denmark this month, alongside nScreenMedia’s Colin Dixon. Since the first Secret Life of Streamers study in 2016, the premium…
Read more ›What a tournament, what a month! March Madness once again stayed true to its name as for the first time ever in the first round, a 16-seed team upset a one-seed who was favored to win it all. This was…
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