YouTube TV Still Dominates, But Frndly TV & Philo See Strong Growth in 2024
For years now YouTube TV has been the largest live TV streaming service in the United States. Now it seems that smaller, less expensive streaming services that don’t focus on sports are seeing strong growth.
According to our summer 2024 survey of more than 1,000 Cord Cutters News readers, YouTube TV dominates the live TV streaming arena with 26.8% of readers subscribing to YouTube TV. In second place is Sling TV with 9.4% of cord cutters subscribing to their skinny bundle of channels.
There is a major change in third place with Frndly TV jumping from just 2.9% in the spring of 2024 to almost 9% in the summer. Philo also saw strong growth jumping up to 7.5% of our survey.
Here is a breakdown of the live TV streaming services results according to our readers.
YouTube TV 26.8%
Sling TV 9.4%
Frndly 8.9%
Philo 7.5%
Hulu with Live TV 4.9%
DIRECTV STREAM 4.4%
Fubo 2.1%