The concern on Wall Street is that increasing numbers of subscribers are ‘“cord-cutting” – abandoning cable altogether or opting for slimmer channel packages in favor of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus. Investors also are worried that media companies aren’t earning enough from SVOD platforms to compensate. Reliable measurement of those platforms is needed to determine whether that’s true.
Source: Outside Voices: Are Media Companies Charging Streaming Services Enough? – CMO Today – WSJ