Again in late August, Comcast and Constitution, the 2 largest cable firms in the US, introduced a stunning collaboration: a three way partnership by which the 2 would work collectively to develop “a next-generation streaming platform.”
The deal consists of each licensing of present Comcast merchandise to Constitution, such because the Flex streaming platform and Xumo streaming service, in addition to the event of latest merchandise, on which the businesses will work collectively.
“We’re thrilled to companion with Constitution to deliver this platform and its award-winning expertise to tens of millions of latest prospects. These merchandise are all designed to make search and discovery throughout reside, on-demand, and streaming video seamless and extremely easy for customers,” Dave Watson, CEO of Comcast Cable, mentioned when the enterprise was introduced. “This partnership uniquely brings collectively greater than a decade of technical innovation, nationwide scale and new alternatives to monetize our mixed funding.”
Watson spoke this week concerning the firm’s plans for the three way partnership.
In accordance with Fierce Video, the chief talked about how Comcast is “extraordinarily centered” on rising the variety of U.S. operators who license the know-how. The feedback got here on the MoffettNathanson’s Media & Communications Summit convention.
“Within the U.S. most definitely we’re going to be doing that,” Watson mentioned, per FierceVideo. “We’re extraordinarily centered on rising the operators.”
“For us, we simply wish to compete towards nice platform operators and supply a fantastic expertise,” he mentioned. “I feel we will do it and our focus will likely be within the U.S.,” he added.
“There’s tons that we’re going to be aggressively pursuing on that platform,” Watson mentioned on the convention. “So sure, there are tradeoffs occurring in video, however the platform aspect I’m fairly enthusiastic about.”
The report additionally mentioned that subsequent 12 months, Constitution expects to roll out 4K streaming gadgets and voice distant by way of the three way partnership.
The feedback got here after the newest quarterly report from Leichtman Analysis Group, which discovered that Comcast misplaced 512,000 subscribers within the first quarter, whereas Constitution misplaced 112,000. They’re nonetheless, nevertheless, method forward of the competitors, with 17.6 million and 15.7 million remaining subscribers, respectively. General, the cable business misplaced 825,308 subscribers within the quarter, out of a complete of 1,955,000 in your entire pay-TV business.
“Pay-TV web losses of about 1.95 million in 1Q 2022 have been just like the online losses within the first quarters of 2021 and 2020,” Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for Leichtman Analysis Group, Inc., mentioned within the launch. “Over the previous 12 months, high pay-TV suppliers had a web lack of 4,735,000 subscribers, just like a lack of about 4,820,000 over the prior 12 months.”
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Picture: Reuters.