With streaming at 47.6% of Nielsen’s Gauge, Samsung is pivoting from channel aggregator to original studio
At a Vietnamese restaurant in Fishers, Indiana, none of the lunch guests chose a channel—yet the Samsung set near the ceiling was streaming a Samsung TV Plus feed. No set-top box, no login. This ordinary scene captures a larger shift in the U.S. media market: free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) is no longer a “alternative” to cable but the underlying infrastructure carrying American television viewing.
