Global pay-TV revenues peaked in 2016 at $202 billion (€171.2bn). Revenues will fall to $152 billion in 2025. This is lower than 2010’s $175 billion – despite the number of pay-TV subscribers rising by 345 million between 2010 and 2025. Revenues fell by $9 billion in both 2018 and 2019. The top five countries will […]
Africa will have 12.96 million SVoD subscriptions by 2025, up from 2.75 million at end-2019, according to the Africa SVoD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. From the 10 million additions, South Africa will supply 3 million to take its total to 4.3 million and Nigeria will add 2.1 million to total 2.73 […]
The number of US SVoD subscriptions will climb from 203 million in 2019 to 317 million by 2025, despite already being the most mature market in the world. Even Netflix, the longest established platform, will add 10 million subscribers, according to Digital TV Research. This growth is overshadowed by Disney+ (27 million additions) and Hulu […]
Western Europe will have 191 million SVoD subscriptions by 2025; more than double from 90 million at end-2019, according to Digital TV Research. About 35 million subscribers will be added in 2020 alone, with the pandemic lockdowns having a major effect. Netflix will remain the largest platform, with 68.49 million paying subscribers expected by 2025. […]
There will be 27.16 million paying SVoD subscriptions for 20 countries in the MENA region by 2025, up from 10.95 million recorded at end-2019, according to the Middle East and North Africa SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Turkey will remain the country leader, with 11.3 million subscriptions by 2025. “Netflix will […]
Asia Pacific will have 467 million SVoD subscriptions by 2025, up from 267 million in 2019, according to the Asia Pacific SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. China will contribute 279 million SVoD subscriptions in 2025 – or 60 per cent of the region’s total. India will supply a further 66 million […]
Latin America will have 100.35 million SVoD subscriptions by 2025, more than double the 42.15 million recorded at end-2019, according to the Latin America SVoD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. “Latin America will enjoy a wave of US-based platform launches over the next year,” advises Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV […]
Pay-TV subscriptions increased by 16 million to 1.028 billion in 2019 across 138 countries, according to the Pay TV Databook from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The growth is in emerging markets. “IPTV is the pay-TV winner,” reports Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research. “IPTV added 49 million subscribers in 2019 to take […]
Global online TV episode and movie revenues reached $83 billion (€70.35bn) in 2019, climbing from $67 billion in 2018 and up by $50 billion on 2017, according to the OTT TV and Video Databook from analyst firm Digital TV Research. From the $16 billion additional
The number of global gross SVoD subscriptions grew by 28 per cent in 2019. The net subscriber count rose by 55 million (16 per cent) in 2019 to total 403 million, according to Digital TV Research. Therefore, gross subscriptions are growing faster than net subscribers. This means