TV Switching Study - March 2025 Data, Published May 2025
The TV Switching Study is our semi-annual research on viewers’ TV services, engagement & future intentions. This wave we expanded the reporting to cover YouTube usage, paid household subscriptions and memberships beyond media, and the ways viewers would be interested in getting free or discounted SVOD services bundled with other services and memberships.
Promotions Marketplace
Circana Connected Intelligence’s Promotions Marketplace report is a monthly updated tracker providing insights into a wireless carrier and national distributor's promotional incentive practices. The report provides a detailed list of all promotional activities captured via Circana’s retail and online store visits conducted on a periodical basis. Captured promotions are categorized (i.e., service plan, accessories, device discounts, BOGOs, Gift Cards, etc.) and dated (start date/end date) for easy navigation and analysis purposes.
Service Plans Marketplace
The Circana Connected Intelligence Service Plans Marketplace Report provides a complete view of all mobile broadband service plans offered by the nationwide postpaid and prepaid carriers. This report features each carrier's service plans on smartphones and mobile broadband products in separate tabs, which provides sectional navigation to postpaid and prepaid plans. The data is gathered from multiple sources (online and retail store surveys) during the last week of each month.
Key highlights from the April 2025 Marketplace Reports:
Mobile Device Marketplace
Circana Connected Intelligence's Device Marketplace report provides a comprehensive view of the US mobile device landscape through the online tracking of mobile phones and other cellular-powered products such as tablets and mobile hotspots. The monthly updated report provides device spec and pricing information on the aforementioned products available through all major postpaid and prepaid service providers' digital channels as well as national distributor outlets (including Best Buy, Walmart, Target online stores) and manufacturer direct online store of Apple.
Wearables Marketplace Report
The quarterly Wearable Marketplace report provides a detailed listing of the latest consumer wearable products.
TV & Video Week in Review
The week when:
- Max Extra Member Option
- Roku gets a refresh
- YouTube TV to expand custom view options
Smart Home Week in Review
The week when:
- Aqara Increases Support for Matter
- Samsung to Release a Robot in 2025
Wearables Ownership Report
Despite the holiday season – a traditional time to gift smartwatches, as well as the precursor for short-lived New Year fitness resolutions – the ownership of smartwatches remains flat, at 40%. More positively, unit sales were higher than one year ago, up 23% compared to Q4 2023. Now updated with a new Profile Report.
Smart Home Week in Review
The week when:
- Nanoleaf Branches Into Charging
- Eufy Releases a New Smart Lock
TV & Video Week in Review
The week when:
- NBCU and DirecTV FAST deal
- Samsung and MMA team up
- CNN to launch non-news service