Streaming activity is down ever since the pandemic forced millions of people to stay at home and social distance to avoid the further spread of the novel virus.
Streaming in the United States has dropped 7.6% in the week of March 13 to March 19, according to analytics provider Alpha Data, via Rolling Stone on Tuesday (March 24). “During the week of March 13th through March 19th — the week restaurants and bars across the nation closed and more Americans self-quarantined — streams dropped 7.6 percent, to under 20.1 billion.
Programmed streams on services like Pandora dropped 9 percent to just under 3.5 billion, while on-demand streams (audio and video) dropped 7.3 percent to 16.6 billion.