Unlike traditional TV, cable, and satellite where the viewer needs to be in a fixed location, Augusta, Georgia area consumers can access streaming TV anywhere using an internet-connected device. These include SmartTVs, Firesticks, Roku, smartphones, computers, laptops, tablets, and gaming consoles.
In all, according to Nielsen, 95.2% of CSRA households have one or more devices capable of connecting to streaming TV. Although this medium is still new, streaming TV now rivals legacy media in its ability to reach local consumers.
Every week, Augusta consumers are spending more-and-more time engaged with streaming TV.
Here are the top five streaming media platforms where Augusta consumers spend millions of minutes of viewing time.
Augusta consumers don't necessarily differentiate how they are watching their video content. Most think of it as just watching TV. According to Nielsen, Streaming TV now accounts for 27.7% of how they 'just watch TV'. This is more time than they spend watching local TV stations and slightly less time than viewers spend with cable.
For Augusta television advertisers who want to readjust their budgets to reach consumers who are migrating from local broadcast and cable stations to streaming TV, it is important to understand the two options that viewers have.
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 (subscription), these services provide commercial-free access to TV shows, original content, and movies.
AVOD means Advertiser-supported Video On Demand. AVOD provides viewers with movies, TV shows, and original content for free. Unlike SVOD, there is no subscription fee. The trade-off, however, is that AVOD includes commercial breaks, similar to traditional TV viewing.
A few services even offer Augusta consumers the option to subscribe without commercials or to receive content for free in exchange for watching advertisements.
Unlike with traditional TV, local advertisers don't have to pick specific AVOD channels or programming to advertise in. Instead, Augusta area business owners can identify the socio-economic qualities of the consumers they would like to reach and target the geographic area where the advertising will be seen. Then the advertisers' commercials would only be shown to those viewers on any advertising-supported streaming channel they might be watching.