Nearly Half of Canadians Have Cut Cable Entirely (mobilesyrup.com)
(Tuesday March 25, 2025 @06:20PM (BeauHD)
from the no-more-loonie-toonies dept.)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/03/25/2029255/nearly-half-of-canadians-have-cut-cable-entirely
- Source link: https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/03/24/canadian-streaming-report-convergence-research/
According to Convergence Research, an estimated 46% of Canadian households [1]didn't have a TV subscription with a cable, satellite, or telecom-based provider in 2024 . MobileSyrup reports:
> In its latest annual " [2]Couch Potato" report (PDF) on the streaming market, the firm notes that this was a four per cent increase from 2023 and that the number is expected to continue to rise to 54 per cent by 2027. Convergence notes that this marks a greater shift towards subscription video on demand services (SVOD) like Netflix and Disney+. To that point, the firm found that Canadian streaming subscription revenue grew 15 per cent year-over-year to $4.2 billion in 2024. At the same time, linear TV subscription revenue dropped five per cent to around $6.5 billion.
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> Some other interesting findings from the report:
> - The 10 leading streaming providers raised prices in Canada by an average of six percent last year
> - Ad-enabled memberships are cost 39 percent less on average compared to ad-free options
> - Canadians subscribe to an average of 2.6 streaming platforms per household
[1] https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/03/24/canadian-streaming-report-convergence-research/
[2] http://www.convergenceonline.com/downloads/2025OTT.pdf
> In its latest annual " [2]Couch Potato" report (PDF) on the streaming market, the firm notes that this was a four per cent increase from 2023 and that the number is expected to continue to rise to 54 per cent by 2027. Convergence notes that this marks a greater shift towards subscription video on demand services (SVOD) like Netflix and Disney+. To that point, the firm found that Canadian streaming subscription revenue grew 15 per cent year-over-year to $4.2 billion in 2024. At the same time, linear TV subscription revenue dropped five per cent to around $6.5 billion.
>
> Some other interesting findings from the report:
> - The 10 leading streaming providers raised prices in Canada by an average of six percent last year
> - Ad-enabled memberships are cost 39 percent less on average compared to ad-free options
> - Canadians subscribe to an average of 2.6 streaming platforms per household
[1] https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/03/24/canadian-streaming-report-convergence-research/
[2] http://www.convergenceonline.com/downloads/2025OTT.pdf
Re: (Score:2)
by Tablizer ( 95088 )
But everything everywhere is slop now. It's sloppy turtles all the way down to a sloppily defined boundary.
Misleading... (Score:2)
by aardvarkjoe ( 156801 )
You didn't "cut cable" if you didn't have it in the first place; the number they're citing is a percentage of total households without cable, not the number of total households that had cable and got rid of it.
Re: (Score:1)
by rudy_wayne ( 414635 )
"Cut Cable Entirely" is simply not true. They are still paying for it, they are just using it for Internet Streaming instead of traditional Cable TV.
Re: Misleading... (Score:3)
by fluffernutter ( 1411889 )
You raise a good point. Does cutting the cable mean no cable internet? I know I'm a Canadian and I have a tv box but never use it. The problem is if I want Internet and phone anyway then just stopping the tv box doesn't really save much.
I don't either. (Score:2)
I don't feel I need to be broadcast to. Youtube + UBO and pirate torrents are such a better experience.
Re:I don't either. (Score:4, Insightful)
The streaming services are quickly going downhill, but getting kicked in the nuts has been a better experience than cable for quite some time. I'm surprised that half still have cable and would not be at all surprised to if the data showed it was mostly generational with older Canadians largely having cable subscriptions and younger Canadians typically not. Cable is quickly becoming the new AOL in that way.
Re: (Score:2)
Outside of using my cable connection for internet, I keep my TV sub primarily for live sports, specifically Formula One and NHL (go Lewis, go Jets!), and a handful of al la carte specialty channels. TV shows and movies I mostly just torrent. I could probably find pirate streams of the sports too, but it's not worth the aggravation.
Re: I don't either. (Score:2)
The Jets are doing awesome this year.
Re: (Score:2)
Hope they don't collapse in the playoffs, as they often do. Tonight's game against Washington should be telling.