New research from Microsoft says that far fewer people have broadband internet access than government statistics have shown.

Source: Digital Divide Is Wider Than We Think, Study Says

Mobile video plays accounted for 62% of all online videos, up 9.8% compared to the same period a year ago. Globally, video starts on smartphones topped 50% for the first time, marking mobile as the platform of choice for video worldwide.

Source: Digital News Daily: Mobile Video Surges As Content Converges With Tech

Netflix and other big content buyers are looking to spend more money on niche programming, which puts existing niche video streamers in a tougher spot.

Source: Niche video programmers have new competition in Netflix and other big spenders – Digiday

Roku says it’s more of an advertising company than a device company. There’s some truth to that.

Source: Thanks to troves of audience data, Roku is moving from tech provider to media company – Digiday

The company’s direct-to-consumer offerings, CBS All Access and Showtime, combined with new distribution on streaming virtual MVPDs, grew 79% year over year.

Source: Digital News Daily: CBS Sees Its Future In Streaming

Disney-owned Movies Anywhere said nearly 6 million users added 150 million movies to their collections in the service’s first year.

Source: Movies Anywhere Hits 6 Million Users, Over 150 Million Movies Stored in First Year

Once The Walt Disney Co. gets control of Hulu, it intends to ramp up programming and possibly increase subscription prices.

Source: Iger Sees More Investment After Gaining Hulu Control

The shift toward OTT video has accelerated with 56 percent of consumers now say they use streaming platforms over pay-TV devices.

Source: More Than Half of All Consumers Choose OTT Over Pay-TV, Study Finds

Comcast might be getting ready to cut the cord: the company is reportedly planning a streaming set-top box for its internet customers, according to CNBC.

Source: Comcast is planning a streaming set-top box for cord cutters

It appears Dish’s live TV streaming service, Sling TV, has been impacted by the increased competition from rivals like YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, AT&T’s DirecTV Now and others.

Source: Sling TV’s growth further slows in Q3, but still leads rivals in terms of subscribers

MVPDs had a rough go of it this quarter, and virtual MVPDs don’t seem to be picking up the slack as well as they had before.

Source: Deeper Dive—What can be done to resuscitate the vMVPD market?

Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen said his satellite TV service has probably endured the bulk of subscriber losses due to its blackout of Spanish-language broadcaster Univision, adding that if the network returned he would expect a consumer backlash.

Source: Ergen: Dish Would Face Customer ‘Backlash’ if Univision Returned

Dish blames the blackout on AT&T’s merger with Time Warner, but the telecom giant says it has nothing to do with the situation.

Source: Why millions of Dish Network’s customers have been cut off from HBO

Once again, traditional TV providers had their worst quarter ever, as 1.1 million homes cut the cord in Q3 2018. That’s according to research firm MoffettNathanson, which tallied up the subscriber losses from the nine largest cable, satellite, and telecommunications providers.

Source: Traditional TV is collapsing faster than ever