Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena

  • North American subscribers who exhibit “cord cutting” behavior (top 15th percentile of video users) are dominating network usage

  • Consuming on average 212GB a month, more than seven times the 29GB of a typical subscriber

  • Viewing the equivalent of 100 hours of video each month

  • Accounting for the majority (54%) of total monthly network traffic

  • In United Kingdom and Ireland, Netflix is now the second largest source of traffic during the peak evening hours, accounting for over 17.8% of downstream fixed access traffic

  • Snapchat generates more traffic than any other third-party messaging app on North American mobile networks, and on one network accounted for an astonishing 12% of total traffic on New Year’s Eve

  • Twitch.TV, a live streaming service where video gamers watch each other play, has established itself among the top-15 applications on many fixed networks across the globe, and now generates more traffic than HBO GO on US networks

  • During the World Cup, live streaming of matches is predicted to account for over 40% of network traffic on some Latin American mobile networks
    Bron