8 Aug
2019
8 Aug
'19
2:29 a.m.
In Britain, at least <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/07/punters_switching_off_telly_boxes_to_watch_youtube/>, people are spending less time watching conventional broadcast TV and more time watching vids on YouTube and Netflix. In related news, famed (and feared) US ratings agency Nielsen <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190805/08212442723/after-missing-cord-cutting-trend-nielsen-falls-apart.shtml> has fallen on hard times as its broadcast (FTA and cable) company customers suffer a similar trend. The irony was that they were the ones forcing it not to make any measurements of the “cord-cutting” phenomenon, because it made them look bad; and as a result its service has now declined into irrelevance.