Molotov OTT service reaches 1 million users

News Broadband France 5 APR 2017
Molotov OTT service reaches 1 million users

French over-the-top TV platform Molotov announced that it has reached 1 million users since its official launch in July 2016. The company said that smartphones account for approximately 40 percent of usage, followed by tablets/computers (around 40 percent) and TVs (circa 20 percent).

The average age of the user base is 35, while the average time spent on the service is 80 minutes per day, ranging from 40 minutes on smartphones and 160 minutes on the TV screen. 

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