Latin America will have 81 million SVoD subscriptions by 2025; almost double the 42 million recorded at end-2019 according to Digital TV Research. This growth comes despite the recession affecting most countries in the region.
The continued escalation of Coronavirus worldwide will continue to have a major impact on the global entertainment sector, says Futuresource; major movie theatrical releases are being postponed, theme parks are closing, music concerts/theatre shows postponed and TV show production, particularly those with live audiences scaled back or cancelled/delayed. In addition, numerous major sports leagues and
Amid the continued fallout of the coronavirus crisis, the global smart home market is expected to fall nearly $20 billion (€17.9bn) short of revenue expectations in 2020, according to Omdia. The global smart home market will total $101.1 billion in 2020, down from Omdia’s previous forecast of $120.6 billion. Smart home device shipments are now […]
Portugal ended 2019 with 4.1 million pay-TV subscribers, a growth of 147,000 or 3.7 per cent in comparison with 2018, according to data published by the National Communications Authority (Anacom). Subscriber growth was exclusively due to the offers supported by fibre optics (+17.5 per cent), while the other technologies all had a negative performance in […]
The Belgian TV and video market continues to show its strength, growing in value by 3 per cent in 2019 to end the year at more than €1.5 billion, according to an industry report from Futuresource Consulting. And as subscription services attract an ever-increasing proportion of consumer spend, Liberty Global-backed Belgian cable operator Telenet has […]
A Video Insights report by Futuresource uncovers the rapid change across the Indian video landscape. Data shows that affordable smartphones, cheaper mobile data and faster internet access has driven SVoD growth. By the end of the year (2020) India will have the third most SVoD subscribers of any country worldwide, after China and the US, […]
While SVoD services around the world continue to add subscribers at a prodigious rate, revenue continues to be highly concentrated in a few markets. According to research firm Strategy Analytics’ TV & Media Strategies (TMS) most recent SVoD forecast, Global SVoD Forecast, by Service (2010 – 2025), consumer spend on SVoD services globally was $53.34 […]
The global entertainment market in 2019 topped $100 billion (€88.81bn) for the first time ever, reaching $101 billion, according to a new report from the Motion Picture Association. The 2019 international box office also surpassed $30 billion for the first time. Meanwhile, global home/mobile entertainment continued its explosive growth, reaching $58.8 billion. “The film, television, […]
Internet advertising revenue topped cash spent on TV ads for the first time in Japan in 2019. Online ad revenue surged 19.7 per cent in the country last year, compared to 2018, to hit 2.1048 trillion yen (€18.05 billion), according to advertising agency Dentsu. TV ad revenue from programmes fell to 1.8612 trillion yen, down […]
The European Audiovisual Observatory hast released its analysis of the promotion of films and TV content by 52 TVoD services in 7 European countries: Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands and the UK. The report looks at the origin of content promoted, the intensity and concentration of promotion, the relative share of films and TV […]