{"id":152781,"date":"2016-01-29T07:16:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T05:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=152781"},"modified":"2016-01-29T17:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T15:26:37","slug":"netflix-vs-showmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/152781-netflix-vs-showmax.html","title":{"rendered":"Netflix vs ShowMax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 South African Online Piracy Survey, conducted by MyBroadband, showed that Netflix and ShowMax are the most popular streaming services among local IT professionals and tech-savvy consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The survey results revealed\u00a0that 33% of respondents subscribe to a video-on-demand streaming service, while 50% have a DStv subscription.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of these subscribers &#8211; 62% &#8211; are Netflix subscribers, while 20% have a ShowMax subscription.<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0interesting finding was\u00a0that most video-on-demand subscribers make use of a VPN service in order to\u00a0gain access to content from other regions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Entertainment-Services-in-South-Africa-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-153495\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-153495\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Entertainment-Services-in-South-Africa-1.jpg\" alt=\"Entertainment Services in South Africa\" width=\"640\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Entertainment-Services-in-South-Africa-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Entertainment-Services-in-South-Africa-1-768x1564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Entertainment-Services-in-South-Africa-1-211x430.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Netflix<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/152277-good-news-for-unotellys-netflix-users.html\">Good news for UnoTelly\u2019s Netflix users<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/152243-netflix-under-pressure-to-block-vpn-users-analyst.html\">Netflix under pressure to block VPN users: analyst<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MyBroadband&#8217;s recent online piracy survey revealed the streaming service of choice among SA IT professionals and tech-savvy consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":151519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[35,2054,32140],"class_list":["post-152781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-netflix","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152929,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152781\/revisions\/152929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}