Advertising In Southwest Florida: Top 5 Articles From 2020
Dec 9, 2020 8:07:11 AM / by Larry Julius
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AVOD: Four Letters Every Fort Myers Small Business Owners Should Know
Nov 3, 2020 9:01:32 AM / by Larry Julius
Before we explain AVOD, it is important to understand SVOD.
Southwest Florida small business owners may not be familiar with SVOD, but chances are they let it into their homes and onto their phones.
SVOD is the abbreviation for Subscription Video On Demand. That is the collective name for streaming networks like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Amazon Prime. For a monthly fee, these services provide commercial-free access to TV shows, original content, and movies.
These SVOD networks are delivered to viewers' phones, tablets, computers, and smart-TVs via the internet and not over-the-air or cable systems.
SVOD makes up a significant part of what advertisers refer to as OTT (Over-The-Top-Television) and CTV (Connected-Television). OTT/CTV is video-programming content that viewers can only watch on smartphones, tablets, computers, smart-TVs, Amazon Firesticks, and Roku Sticks. Nielsen reports that 96.1% of Fort Myers-Naples area adults own at least one of these devices.
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Advertising In Fort Myers: OTT & CTV Viewing Soars
Sep 5, 2020 7:46:03 AM / by Larry Julius
Advertising on Fort Myers television and cable is becoming less attractive to local business owners as viewers rapidly defect to alternative video entertainment sources including, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Amazon and Disney+.
Collectively these streaming services are referred to as Over-The-Top Television (OTT) and Connected-TV (CTV). Viewers can only access this OTT and CTV content via smartphone, tablets, computers, smart-TVs, Amazon Fire Sticks, and Roku Sticks, Nielsen reports that 96.1% of Southwest Florida adults own at least one these devices. Furthermore, they are using them.
According to Nielsen, OTT and CTV networks now reach 42.3% of all Southwest Florida consumers every week.
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Advertising On Fort Myers Radio Reaches Cable TV's Cord Cutters
Jul 30, 2020 3:12:16 PM / by Larry Julius
More than one-third of Southwest Florida area households are 'cord-cutters' or 'cord-nevers'. This means, they have fired their cable or satellite television providers or never subscribed at all. Instead, these consumers are choosing to find their video entertainment elsewhere.
The number of local homes that subscribe to pay-TV services began plummeting in 2013. New technologies has allowed viewers to bypass cable and satellite for more compelling content at lower prices. These cord-cutters now depend on services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Amazon Prime to fill their multiple screens.
For many years, SWFL small business owners have been investing a significant portion of their advertising budgets into cable-TV. The medium had proven to be a low-cost, high-reach alternative to buying commercial on over-the-air television stations.
Now, because of cord-cutting, there are 330,000 adult consumers with unconnected TVs. This profoundly diminishes the value proposition of advertising with local cable systems.
There is a powerful and affordable solution, however, for small business owners to reach both the diminishing cable audience and the expanding number of cord-cutters.
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Does Cable TV Advertising Make Sense For SWFL Small Business Owners?
May 12, 2020 2:24:30 PM / by Larry Julius
Pay-TV is struggling to survive COVID-19.
Before the onset of the pandemic, Nielsen reported that 76% of Southwest Florida area households received their television programs from cable systems, telephone companies, or satellite operators. That number, however, is plummeting.
Pay-TV providers in the Fort Myers-Naples area include Xfinity, Dish, Spectrum, Summit, Hotwire, AT&T TV and DirecTV.
"Cord-cutting, people dropping their cable and satellite TV subscriptions, pre-dates the onset of Covid-19. But the pandemic is exaggerating the trend, creating deeper issuers for programming that relies on those services for distribution," Eric Savitz wrote last week in Barron's. This includes non-premium services like ESPN, TBS, TNT, USA, CNN, and Discovery.
"LightShed Partners analyst Richard Greenfield counts a loss of 1.96 million subscribers to cable, satellite TV, and virtual cable services combined in the first quarter," Savitz continued. "This is the worst combined quarterly drop ever, down 6% from a year ago."
Greenfield said in an interview with Barron’s that what is especially sobering is that most of the first quarter activity pre-dated the virus. The numbers are likely to get considerably worse in the second quarter.
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Advertising On Fort Myers Television vs. Local Radio
Feb 24, 2020 6:35:26 PM / by Larry Julius
There is alarming news for Southwest Florida small business owners who advertise on Fort Myers television stations: broadcast TV viewers are disappearing at a rapid pace.
Nielsen reports that halfway through the first quarter of this year, the number of people using television has dropped 7.5%. This compares to -6.3% in the fourth quarter of 2019, and -7.0% a year ago,
"If the trend holds, it would represent the largest quarterly decline for TV viewership in our data set," explains UBS analyst John C. Hodulikadding. "Trends have worsened across most age demos with persons 25-34 now falling -17% vs. low double-digit declines throughout 2019. The persons 55+ demo continues to trend down -2%, similar to 2019 (the first year of declining ratings for the demo)."
Radio listenership, on the other hand, has remained quite stable, according to Nielsen. Since 1970, the medium has reached more than 9-in-10 consumers every week.
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