Paul Erickson, Principal Analyst, Media & Entertainment at Omdia, is a 20+ year veteran industry and competitive analyst covering the media & entertainment technology and consumer electronics sectors.

Paul is Founder and Principal of Erickson Strategy & Insights, an industry analysis, strategy, and advisory consultancy. Prior to founding the company, he was Research Director for Entertainment and CE at Parks Associates, and brings expansive experience and perspective from covering media & entertainment technology, services, and related consumer devices across Parks Associates, Omdia, IHS Markit (now S&P Global Market Intelligence), and NPD DisplaySearch (now Circana).

With more than 25 years of technology industry experience, his coverage and insight has spanned streaming video services and platforms, pay & broadcast TV, connected CE, content security, UI / UX technologies, smart home, gaming, home & professional audio, and collaboration technologies.

He has regularly spoken at, moderated, and/or attended industry events, conferences, and tradeshows across the consumer, media & entertainment, and pro AV technology landscape, such as CES, IFA, MWC, IBC, NAB, Connected TV World Summit, MIPCOM, ISE, InfoComm, and NAMM. Paul is also a two-time AVIXA Emerging Trends Fellow honoree.

He has been quoted in a variety of news outlets and industry publications, including the Financial Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, BBC, Reuters, NPR, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CBC News, BusinessWeek, Variety, Bloomberg, Wired, The Verge, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, PC World, CNET, Fierce Video, TWICE, CE Pro and Cable & Satellite International.