ISP technology provider Procera Networks reports that Netflix streaming was down a quarter from normal levels in the U.S. Sunday, even though overall streaming video traffic was way up, according to Procera Networks.
Procera Networks notes that Netflix streaming was down 25 percent on July 29, 2012, for example.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings had suggested this would happen. “This quarter the Olympics are likely to have a negative impact on Netflix viewing and sign-ups,” Reed Hastings has said, in setting third quarter 2012 guidance at one million to 1.8 million domestic net adds.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Olympics Streaming Seems to Hit Netflix Streaming
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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