6.1% have Netflix, Amazon Prime and Now TV. The most common duo-subscription is Netflix and Amazon Prime, with 32% of people having both. Of 2020’s newcomers, Disney+ started off strongly with its launch getting 4.3 million subscribers in the UK as of June 2020.Ħ.7 million (24%) households are signed up to 2 services or more. Any new subscribers during 2019 both came and left, leaving the service steady on 1.62 million subscribers. Amazon has had an average increase of subscribers of 28% per year, compared to Netflix’s 20% increase. Amazon Prime Video is not far behind after experiencing a bigger growth over the last two years, decreasing the difference between the two services. Netflix is by far the most popular streaming service in the UK, with more than 13 million subscribers. Which back then certainly put it in the small fry section.ġ.62m according to here TV streaming statistics in the UK 2020 | Finder UK Everybody’s quad-play.Īll they have to do now is fund NowTV properly, in particular bringing the incredibly unsatisfactory customer service up to scratch, and they will once again rule the non-Freeview roost.Īny idea how many users Now TV has now, Roy? As at my last count, a couple of years ago it stood around the 1m mark. Almost without us noticing it, NowTV has moved from a peripheral service, mopping up the scraps from those who would quite like Sky but didn’t want to pay for it, to an absolutely central and essential lynch-pin of quad-play. And to be another purveyor of Sky, in the form of NowTV.Ĭlever Sky. Oh, and AMG.īut nothing there to tempt anyone to buy up TalkTalk, surely? Unless they want a presence in cheap terrestrial broadband, where NowTV will out-cheap them. The BBC, by cleverly managing to get the BBC iPlayer into the licence fee arena, have secured their future as a broadcaster and largely thwarted cord cutting (or rather aerial chopping) as an escape route.īut the ubiquitous Sticks have now largely thwarted the quad-play strategy what price BT TV, when it is revealed to be nothing much more than a PVR on easy payment terms, plus a NowTV stick with a decent EPG, and recording, on that same PVR? Except for BT Sport, or course. ![]() ![]() Interesting that you lump Sky and NowTV together, though and also a mistake, as NowTV is on the cord cutters’ side of the equation. So the only cord cutters you will find in the UK, if you differentiate Sky, are ex-Virgin TV subscribers. The service carries a 49 activation fee, and a small charge for delivery by Royal Mail courier. With BT, you get the box for free as long as you get your broadband from BT. ‘Cord cutters’ is an American expression reflecting the paucity and inadequacy of broadcast TV there, and the ubiquity of cable, from which cord cutters escape onto the internet. The YouView box on offer from BT is the same as the Humax Youview box that you can pick up on the high street for almost 300. It would take something really special to entice existing Sky/now subscribers and cord cutters to abandon their current set ups.
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