TVAddons Boast Over 14 Million Active Users Per Month

[The AchieVer]

TVAddons Boast Over 14 Million Active Users Per Month

 

Leading Kodi add-on resource TVAddons has gone through some rough times in recent years. The site's founder was sued in the US and Canada, but despite the legal pressure, it remains online today. While some expected the 'cleaned up' addon repository to languish, it still 'serves' millions of people per month.

 

 

Dedicated streaming set-top boxes, many of which are running on Kodi, have become increasingly popular over the past several years.

 

The Kodi software itself is perfectly legal, but many third-party add-ons complement it to offer access to pirated movies, TV-shows, and live-streaming.

 

These ‘pirate’ add-ons can be found on a variety of sites and resources. Some are blatantly offering infringing content, but it’s not always clear what’s permitted and what’s not.

 

TVAddons, a popular repository of third-party Kodi add-ons, learned this the hard way. Previously the site used to offer many problematic add-ons. This lead to lawsuits in both the US and Canada, after which the company cleaned up its site and tightened its policies.

 

When the site returned, during the summer of 2017, it had to start from scratch. Since some of the most popular add-ons were removed, many people thought, or even hoped, that the comeback would be destined to fail.

 

However, this is not the case. New statistics released by TVAddons show that its repository is still widely used.

 

“There are many groups that wish to see TV ADDONS die. They include Hollywood, copyright bullies, preloaded box sellers, paid IPTV sellers, Kodi ‘blogs,’ and probably cyber-lockers too. They’d be free to continue their profit-seeking, without us getting in the way,” TVAddons says.

 

“Unfortunately for the haters, we aren’t going anywhere. We continue to grow, maintaining a healthy number of daily active users.”

 

The site revealed its most recent ‘visitor’ statistics for May. These are not site visits, but the number of connections that ping TVAddons servers by using its add-ons.

 

Last month, TVAddons received up to 1.76 million unique calls to its update server per day, and over 14 million for the entire month. This means that every 24 hours, roughly one-and-a-half million ‘Kodi boxes’ with their add-ons are online, checking for updates.

TVAddons repo stats for May 2019

These numbers are indeed quite significant. However, what TVAddons doesn’t mention is that they are down quite a bit compared to a few years ago, before the legal trouble started. 

 

During September 2016, TVAddons had roughly 24.7 million users a month and a rough average of 5.6 million per day. This shows that daily usage has dropped significantly.

 

The number of website visits also shows a downward trend, although that’s never been very high. According to the TVAddons team, this is in part due to the removal of the old add-on library.

 

“We lost website ranking when we upgraded our site, because our old add-on library is down which had over 800 pages in it. We have the new and hugely upgraded version almost ready to go public,” TVAddons informs TorrentFreak.

 

It is clear, however, that TVAddons isn’t done yet. Since the legal trouble started it has settled its U.S. lawsuit with Dish. However, the Canadian lawsuit through which the repository lost its old domain, remains ongoing.

 

That lawsuit is not a threat to the current site, according to TVAddons. The suit in question targets TVAddons’ founder Adam Lackman who has since distanced himselffrom the Kodi-addon repository.

 

“There’s no update on the Canadian lawsuit yet, but it’s really Adam Lackman’s personal problem at this point. We continue to support him as much as we possibly can, but his lawsuit has no bearing on our community,” TVAddons says.

 

While there are no official figures available, the interest in Kodi, in general, appears to be waning. Traffic to the official Kodi site is dropping and the number of Kodi searches on Google is on a downward spiral too. 

 

 

 

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[steven36]

No one from the kodi community believes this, the only part of  of this whole article  that is true is the part were TF said

 

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the interest in Kodi, in general, appears to be waning. Traffic to the official Kodi site is dropping and the number of Kodi searches on Google is on a downward spiral too. 

 

Adam Lackman still runs TV Addons  hes  the master of the sock puppet and he still using his fake names   to spread his fake news to the kodi community to make it look like his site has fans  witch it don't  . TV Addons  have not had nothing in there repo  worth having since they blacklisted   there own addons  a few years ago  .  If something ever happen to Lackman the whole site would shut down it been hanging on by a string for 2 years now, If they had 14 million views it a botnet kodi addon DDOSing there website .

 

TV Addons  is bad news when ever a dev  in the kodi community quits they hijack there github repo and  it force installs there spyware in your kodi. It been a problem every since they blackisted there  addons from there own repo.

 

The reason there repo was busy was they hijack dead repos that a bunch people never removed   that force installed  there spyware indigo addon. 

 

 

This keeps happening  over and over  every since 2017 and it's always  dead repos  hijacked with TV Addon's INDIGO and they hard for a noob  to remove they push out a fake addon update  were  makes INDIGO a dependency were you can't unstall  it unless you remove the addon they hijacked 1st then you can remove  it , or you can delete in the hidden addon folder , i have  a maintenance  addon that will let me force uninstall any addon i don't want . When they hit It force installs TV ADDON INDIGO  and FUSION  repo so unless they got updates off TV Addons  will get hits from anyone that has it installed or installs it . that may not know its dead and hijacked.

 

 

Google shows  when people were most interested in  TV addons  is when it got closed down that time  and people  are no longer really interested in it.

 

 

 

There all kinds of sites that tell you how to install the latest unofficial Kodi addons everyone is using even social media  But TV Addons or even official  Kodi are not these sites !

 

The whole reason Kodi is waning is because all  the portals like Noobs and Nerds , Colossus  , Aries are gone  and TV addons  is dead it blacklisted its good addons 2 years ago and all the devs from dead portals say Adam Lackman snitched them out,  , so it takes a certain amount of technical competence to maintain kodi now  , The days of spoon feeding noobs is over . Most noobs that install Kodi find out quick it  a lot of work to keep it working good.  to use Kodi nowadays  and it to work good  you going to need basic technical skills to set up and addon, because it not like it was a few years ago  when addons just worked without tuning them up 1st . They do torrents and all kinds of stuff now and none of that is free unless  you use a pure p2p addon.