Apple Dominates Authenticated 'TV Everywhere' Streaming With 62% Market Share

A new report out today by Adobe Digital Index (ADI) put Apple atop a list of streaming media providers (via CMO), the Apple TV and iOS devices representing 62 percent of all authenticated pay-for-TV video views, or any online app that requires a cable subscription to access. Measuring all video content from free ad-based YouTube clips to "shows accessed through an authenticated app-based or TV subscription service," ADI reports that the streaming industry as a whole has grown a drastic 282 percent year over year.

Focusing solely on Apple, the Apple TV doubled its share of the overall online media streaming market, growing from 5 percent to 10 percent quarter over quarter. As ADI points out, a few of Apple's streaming rivals - Roku and gaming consoles like Xbox and PlayStation - saw increases in the past year, as well.

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"Apple is sitting in the catbird seat because of its dominant position with access to consumers and a wealth of video data,” said Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst at ADI. “The challenge will be to see if it can monetize the strategy fast enough to get ahead of the movement away from linear TV toward digital viewing. Apple is clearly looking to play in the video-streaming market, and the growth of that market is a big indicator as to why.”

On the opposite end, these mobile- and living room-centric media solutions have cannibalized the streaming shares of desktop PCs and Macs. “It looks like desktops are losing the battle in the home," Gaffney noted. "Bringing the TV Everywhere viewing platform full circle and returning viewers to the living room.”

iOS saw a less dramatic increase year over year than the Apple TV, with a growth from 43 percent to 47 percent, while the company's Android competitors saw no growth at all on mobile, staying at a consistent 15 percent share of the streaming market. Although desktops are dipping in streaming popularity, notebooks are undoubtedly still a highly used source of streaming content for many people. As such, Google Chrome and Safari both saw upticks in pieces of the overall streaming market over the past year by 18 and 15 percent, respectively.

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The key takeaway from our analysis is that the streaming video space is growing fast, and Apple is growing by building out an ecosystem of devices as it relates to that space,” Gaffney said. “Apple is leaning toward having a bigger play there than in the past. For marketers that means having a blanket approach to advertising is not going to work. They need to think about who is viewing and when. The strategy needs to be evolving and more complex to match the evolving and more complex nature of the landscape.”

ADI predicts that smartphone browsing will overtake that of desktops in 2017, noting that currently the preferred method for casually streaming content is tablets, "used specifically for leisurely activities such as video viewing and listening to music." With Apple's revamped Apple TV a no-show at WWDC next week, it'll be interesting to see how the company continues to grow the now three-year-old device. With Apple's plans to launch its own subscription television service sometime in the future, there's no doubt that the streaming media industry as a whole will only continue to grow.

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PortCity Avatar
129 months ago
The report sounded to good to be true (for the Apple TV) being that Roku has been pretty dominant the last few years. Then I found the following: "The Adobe index took into account anonymous data from Adobe marketing cloud’s clients, mainly network and cable broadcasters that offer paid streaming of their premium TV content. The data did not include streaming-only services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, nor free YouTube views." (According to Macworld). So Adobe creates a report on streaming services but leaves out the major streaming services. Way to go Adobe.
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8CoreWhore Avatar
129 months ago
And this doesn't even count using my rMBP to torrent shows.
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Dilster3k Avatar
129 months ago
And they're not even trying... A true testament for Apple! :p
But please, I've been holding out to buy a redesigned Apple TV, get on it so I can jump the wagon!

(Also, who knew Adobe did this research?)
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jacobh101 Avatar
129 months ago
and Apple considers AppleTV a hobby.
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TMRJIJ Avatar
129 months ago
Wow. Even their 'hobbies' are doing better than the competition :rolleyes:
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Michael CM1 Avatar
129 months ago
Yet another reason why I am not a fan of Adobe.
First they bogged down our computers with Flash. Then they forced anybody wanting new versions of their "this is the only software there is that does this stuff now" Creative Suite into a subscription model. Then you bring this nugget of wisdom to light.

Man, that company blows!
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