SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — As the drama series progresses, the time spent watching content through Netflix increases compared to conventional cable TV, confirming the phenomenon of binge-watching on the platform, a study showed Sunday. According to an academic thesis published in South Korea’s Journal of Visual Culture Content, a research team analyzed TV [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has seen an increase in TV viewing over the last few weeks as the rapid spread of the infectious coronavirus has kept more people at home, industry data showed Friday. TV watching in South Korea jumped about 16.6 percent between the second and fourth weeks of February, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — As new digital media, like YouTube, has become a mainstream content distribution platform, web-based series have carved out an independent genre in South Korean show business based on explosive popularity among teenagers. Drama “A-Teen,” produced by Playlist Global, a web drama studio under the wing of South Korea’s largest [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Binge-watching, the practice of watching multiple episodes or an entire season of a TV series in one sitting, has become significantly more common than four years ago according to the results of a survey conducted by Netflix. The streaming and VOD (video on demand) giant derived its data by [...]
NEW YORK, Mar. 22, (Korea Bizwire) — American consumers’ status as a binge watching, streaming, multitasking nation enters 2017 with strong momentum according to Deloitte’s 11th “Digital Democracy Survey.” With 84 percent of Americans on social networks – social media has evolved well beyond “socializing” and is being used to discover new content, get news [...]