Globally, revenue in the home entertainment segment is projected to reach $12.2bn this year, with an expected annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.1% between 2020-2025.
Akamai also predicted an unprecedented surge in streaming for 2021, with as many as 50m people concurrently streaming a single live event next year.
South Africa (3.24mn by 2025) will remain the subscription leader, with Nigeria (2.14mn) in second place.
The study is based on responses from a total of 422 people, of which 40% were filmmakers, 30% comprised students and 17% included film crew.
SVOD revenues will exceed $1bn in 16 countries by 2025, which is double from eight countries in 2019.
BeIN Sports’ main focus on IGTV included original documentaries, interviews, and reports of more than three minutes in length.
The findings were presented in a detailed report launched today at a virtual media briefing led by Maaz Sheikh, co-founder and CEO of StarzPlay.
From the $16bn additional OTT revenues in 2019, SVOD contributed $12bn.
Around 29% of podcast listeners claim they ‘always listen’ to brand-funded podcasts and over half saying they ‘sometimes’ listen.
Covid-19 is accelerating trends for mobile as the report finds consumers are spending double the amount of time watching the mobile video as they do with TV.
Half of the broadcasters, however, anticipate network issues to be 5G’s biggest challenge.
By 2025, 291m SVOD subscriptions will come directly to SVOD platforms via mobile apps.
The news channel’s global monthly brand reach, both on TV and digital, peaked at a record 149.6m in Q1 of 2020.
Newly adapted digital strategy in light of Covid-19 led to more followers on Fatafeat’s digital platforms.
The media network had more than 4.56bn views in May 2020.
Comparitech’s individual country statistics show that Netflix now has over 300,000 subscribers in the UAE.
The top 50 operators accounted for 46% of the world’s pay-TV subscribers by the end of 2019.
89% of sports fans subscribe to a pay-TV or OTT service, yet 51% watch pirate sports services at least once a month.
People aged between 25 and 54 spend nearly eight hours listening each week, according to the report.
The decline comes despite the number of global pay-TV subscribers rising by 35m between 2019 and 2025.
Tubular Labs’ top five currently comprises The Walt Disney Company, ViacomCBS, Comcast, WarnerMedia and TheSoul Publishing.
Service providers are continuing to charge end users the regional sports network fees, even though live sporting events have been cancelled.
Middle East’s first-ever report into the podcast landscape of KSA is due to be released in May 2020.
While a boom in media rights for eSports was expected, the coronavirus outbreak may see the value of these rights jump significantly, the analyst said.
China and India together will account for 80% of the region’s 676m pay-TV subscribers by 2025.
The US was followed by China (17%), Germany (4%), and the United Kingdom (4%) for the same time period, according to the research.
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With a total of 140 cinema facilities in 30 malls across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is set to create more than 5,314 job opportunities.
The ongoing shift to OTT is creating value for companies throughout the video value chain, including pay-TV operators, the report said.
This, according to the latest report, will be $2.1bn more or triple the total revenue in 2019.
The revenue derived from SVOD in the African market is expected to increase by six times the current value by 2025, according to Digital TV Research.
African pay-TV subscriber numbers are set to climb by 54% between 2019 and 2025 to 47.26m, according to Digital TV Research.
The research found that 96% of broadcasters feel there is a demand from customers for more personalised services.
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According to Ampere, Netflix overtook Facebook as the second most viewed online video service in the US and Europe in Q3 2017 and has extended its lead since.
The event unfolded over three days of networking, thought leadership keynotes and discussions, showcases on the trends including 5G, AI, IoT, Smart Cities, next-generation broadcasting and more.
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The well-received diversified content in the region goes hand-in-hand with Netflixs plan to produce more content in the Middle East.
Organized by BroadcastPro ME the conference brought together 120 industry professionals to tackle threats posed by piracy to stakeholders within the MENA region.
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