TV Untethered: Quantifying Mobile TV Viewing and its Impact

This paper describes a US research project into the use of mobile video to quantify the number of people watching TV programming on mobile devices, their motivations and the typical viewing occasions.

TV Untethered: Quantifying Mobile TV Viewing and its Impact

Laura Cowan and Christopher NealLIN Media Aluquerque and Chadwick Martin Bailey

Context

Video consumption on smartphones and tablets in the US is becoming a mainstream activity. With smartphone penetration now at 60% in the US, the volume of video consumed on mobile devices is reaching a critical mass (see Exhibit 1).

Exhibit 1: Growth in minutes of video watched on mobile devices (2009-2013)

While much of this "video" viewed on mobile devices is not professionally produced, the scope of this trend is simply too broad for anyone interested...

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