MENA pay-TV revenues to drop by $1.5bn over next five years: Digital TV Research
According to the report, the pay-TV subscriber numbers will also fall from 3.70m to 3.14m over the same period.
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According to the report, the pay-TV subscriber numbers will also fall from 3.70m to 3.14m over the same period.
According to the report, Multichoice will continue to lead with 20.8m subscribers expected by 2027.
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Overall, global SVOD subscriptions will increase by 491m between 2021 and 2026 to reach 1.64bn.
Disney+ will reach 121m subscribers by 2026, double its 2021 total.
The report predicts that OSN will overtake both Shahid VIP and StarzPlay, growing from 945,000 in 2021 to 2.56m by 2026.
Revenues will triple in India and the US where AVOD revenues are set to triple between 2020 and 2026 to $31bn.
The report also noted that satellite TV revenues will drop by $16bn, with digital cable down by $12bn.
SVOD subscriptions in India are expected to almost triple between 2020 and 2026 to 155m, representing 10% of the world’s total.
Online TV platforms will add 63m subscribers between 2020 and 2026 to take its total to 378m.
SVOD revenues are reportedly set to climb by $59bn between 2020 and 2026 to $126bn, with SVOD's total share decreasing slightly from 62% in 2020 to 60% in 2026.
Revenues for both AVOD and SVOD in APAC will double between 2020 and 2026 to $22bn and $28bn respectively.
According to the report by Digital TV Research, India will add 21m and together with China, will have nearly 500m subscribers.
Disney+ will only have more subscribers than Netflix in one country, namely India, according to analyst Digital TV Research.
SVOD revenues will exceed $1bn in 16 countries by 2025, which is double from eight countries in 2019.
From the $16bn additional OTT revenues in 2019, SVOD contributed $12bn.
By 2025, 291m SVOD subscriptions will come directly to SVOD platforms via mobile apps.
The top 50 operators accounted for 46% of the world’s pay-TV subscribers by the end of 2019.
The decline comes despite the number of global pay-TV subscribers rising by 35m between 2019 and 2025.
China and India together will account for 80% of the region’s 676m pay-TV subscribers by 2025.
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.
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