Akamai's biometric study confirms it: We really, really hate crappy video streaming
Buffering… Buffering… Aaaaad… Fist. Through. Laptop. Screen. Yes, we all k**w the feeling of trying to binge on some premium Netflix or Hulu eye food, but when a slow video stream results in a frozen screen or poor image quality, the euphoria disappears — and fast.*
Because **thing means anything **wadays without hard data to back it up, cloud delivery platform Akamai decided to conduct a study into exactly what happens to our feels when the streaming starts to go bad.*
Akamai teamed up with Sensum to measure more than 1,000 people's responses to low quality video streams. Shock! They hated the sucky video streams.* Read more...