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Research

(Source: Parks Associates Video Services Dashboard)

➢ Amazon Prime Video’s subscriber penetration rate is at 45% of U.S. internet households.

➢ In 1Q21, 77.3 million households were members of Amazon Prime and approximately 71% of them watched Prime Video.

➢ 2022’s trends could change in light of Amazon Prime’s announced price increase from $119 to $139, its first rise since 2018.

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May 6: Cablefax Regional Rainmakers Entry Deadline

Quotable

“We’ve been hard at work on this for nearly two years and so the timing of hte launches has literally been set for about a year and a half. And it is very similar to a question which is why launch HBO Max, and you launch these things because they are in many ways the future of the business. The vision for CNN+ has always twofold, which is to have a standalone service for those folks that are interested in a news product like CNN+, but also have the ability to have it bundled into HBO Max where you’re able to purchase CNN+ and be able to consume it either as a standalone app or as part of HBO Max. So that’s always been the vision and that hasn’t changed, and I suspect that won’t change with Discovery.” – Outgoing WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar speaking to CNBC’s “TechCheck” on the launch of CNN+

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The broadcast category in Nielsen ’s “The Gauge” report recorded its third consecutive month of growth in October. Nielsen found that broadcast viewership recorded 7% monthly growth to take 24% of total

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