“A new Citi Investment Research study from analyst Mike Mahaney points to Netflix still increasing its share of Internet movie and TV viewing,” Electronista reports.
“Between May and December, Netflix’s share of those watching movies on TV grew from 20 to 27 percent,” Electronista reports. “Most of that came at the expense of Hulu, which was down from 19 percent to 15.”
Electronista reports, “Most providers, including Amazon, Comcast, CBS, and NBC, were also up significantly. ABC was down, however. iTunes was almost exactly flat at eight percent.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Apples and Oranges. iTunes is either buy or rent, where Netflix is a subscription fee.
itunes is too expensive with a la carte pricing unless you only watch one or two shows
Not if you cancel your cable.
We did, and buy about 20+ seasons a year. We watch what we want, when we want it, and no commercials.
Yeah I have to agree there, if you compare $100/month fees for cable or satellite you can buy a lot of shows for $1200 a year and have them when you want and not peppered with ads.
With young kids in the house, it always takes two nights for me and my wife to finish watching a full length feature. But since the Apple rental period is 24 hours (instead of 28 or 30 for example) that would mean renting it twice. So the only thing I ever rent from Apple is the kids’ movies.
i was going to rent the dark knight, but it’s only $7.99 on blu ray and there are a lot of under $10 movies on blu ray. doesn’t even make sense to rent some of them.
@Alen,
I agree with you. Apple and iTunes is just too expensive!
In many cases, Apple charges double for HD content versus SD. I think that’s ridiculous. AND, in many cases the price can be close or equal to the price of actual buying a recent DVD release. I’d rather spend the gas and go somewhere to buy the DVD. Especially if the DVD has a lot of extra content.
When you buy from iTunes, most of the you just get the movie and none of the extra features or content!
While Netflix is usually behind a couple of months in their variety of recent movies for streaming, I think you get to watch a lot more content cheaper.
Hulu has been annoying me for awhile now because they aren’t getting licenses or permission to stream a few of my recent series and shows and they aren’t allowing their app to output normal iPad TV functionality to able me to watch their content on my TV. My folks have a WiFi streaming box that I feel is pretty mobile and Hulu allows Hulu Plus to stream to this box and to my folks HDTV with no problem. I have no idea why they won’t allow streaming to output toTV through a mobile device. I get much of my regular broadcast network through Hulu, but have been considering dropping their service if their policies continue. Everytime I want to watch regular broadcast shows from Hulu, I am either stuck watching on my Mac on a 24″ monitor or from my 10″ iPad screen. Frustrating!
itunes is expensive compaired to what?? Spending $1200+/year for Cable or satellite? (average $100/mo) that will buy quite a bit of programming on itunes plus you can move it to your iPhone or kids iPod’s.
You get what you want (buy only the programming you want to see) it plays -when you want -where you want and with no promotional or ad content.
Don’t know, sounds like a bargain by comparison.