Due to the demands video places on bandwidth, the growth of broadband, and the growth of the services
The full article with detail of how Netflix stacks up against JOB is over at The Atlantic Wire. (via Variety)
Now, I thought that this was an extremely interesting observation given the recent decisions made over at Disney to take the HBO approach.
The Atlantic Wire said:If you combine everything that you do on every website besides Netflix and YouTube reading this article, or looking at GIFs, or checking your email all of that combined generates about the same amount of peak web traffic as those two sites alone. Netflix itself is bigger in every metric than HBO.
According to (estimated) data compiled by Sandvine, a manufacturer of broadband technology, the video-streaming sites comprise 32.3 and 17.1 percent of all peak-period download traffic in North America, as reported by Variety. Combined, that's 49.4 percent. And at the rate that each is growing 35 percent year-over-year for Netflix and about 24 percent for YouTube it's a safe bet that the two will soon account for more than half of all the bandwidth we use.
[...]Netflix has about 1 million more subscribers than HBO. But it almost certainly is also watched more, as it doubles down on binge-watching while HBO steps back from a streaming future beyond its cable subscribers.
The full article with detail of how Netflix stacks up against JOB is over at The Atlantic Wire. (via Variety)
Now, I thought that this was an extremely interesting observation given the recent decisions made over at Disney to take the HBO approach.