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Disney+ to reach 75m subs by 2024, says research firm
A forecast from research firm Digital TV Research shows that Disney+ is set to reach…
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Netflix to experience largest subscriber growth in 2018
Netflix will have its largest growth year to date in 2018, adding around 28 million…
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Top 10 pay TV operators to lose $20bn in revenues by 2023
The world’s top 10 pay TV operators by revenue will experience losses of US$20 billion…
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Global pay TV revenues peaked in 2016, says Digital TV Research
Global pay TV revenues peaked in 2016 will fall by 11% between then and 2023,…
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US pay TV revenues set for $26.6bn drop – forecast
The number of traditional pay TV subscribers in the US peaked in 2012 and will…
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Latin America pay TV ‘set to stagnate’
Latin America is due to add fewer than five million additional pay TV subscribers between…
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Digital TV Research: MENA pay TV ARPU in decline
Pay TV revenues are set to grow in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)…
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Piracy to cost TV & film biz $52bn
The stark cost of illegal downloading and streaming of movies and TV shows has been…
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Asia Pacific SVOD set to overtake North America
Asia Pacific is due to overtake North America this year to become the biggest SVOD…
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West Europe SVOD subs could reach 65m
The number of Western European SVOD subscriptions is due to reach 65.07 million by 2022…
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‘Top 50 services dominating pay TV’
The world’s top 50 pay TV operators account for two thirds of pay TV customers…
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Global pay TV revenue growth ‘slows significantly’
Global pay TV revenue growth slowed significantly last year, with North American revenue speaking in…
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Study: pay TV subs hit 969m in 2016
The global number of pay TV subscribers climbed by 35%between 2010 and 2016, taking the…
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Global pay TV numbers ‘to pass 1bn’
The global number of pay TV subscribers will rise by 134 million between 2016 and…
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Western Europe ‘safe from cord cutting’
The Western European pay TV market will avoid “the curse of cord-cutting” and still gain…
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Eastern Europe facing 1m pay TV subs loss
Eastern Europe will lose one million pay TV subscribers between 2016 and 2022, according to…
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US pay TV uptake falling away
Pay TV penetration in North America is set to drop to 75.2% by 2022, from…
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Asia Pacific pay TV subs to reach 666m
The Asia Pacific pay TV market is tipped to climb from 574 million subscribers last…
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Middle East TV downgraded
Digital TV Research has downgraded its pay TV revenue forecast for the Middle East and…
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Amazon takes on Netflix with global Prime rollout
Amazon has undercut Netflix with the launch of Prime Video in more than 200 countries…
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New launches will drive Amazon’s SVOD share
Netflix will become less dominant in western European SVOD over the next five years as…
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Russia to lead regional SVOD boom
The number of SVOD homes in the main Eastern Europe countries will rocket to 18.2…
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SVOD subs in North America to outstrip TV homes
There will be more subscription VOD subscribers in North America than TV homes by 2021,…
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Netflix ‘will remain dominant’ in Lat Am
Netflix will remain the dominant SVOD player in Latin America for the foreseeable future, according…
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SVOD market in MEA remains ‘immature’
The Middle East and African SVOD sector will “still be very immature by 2021”, with…
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Pay TV sub numbers to climb as revenues stay flat
The world’s top 400 pay TV operators will increase their subscription count from 778 million…
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Mixed prospects for CEE pay TV
Almost a third the big pay TV operators in Central and Eastern Europe will shed…
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Global OTT revenues to reach $64.8bn
Global over-the-top TV and video revenues will reach US$64.78 billion in 2021, more than doubling…
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Western European OTT revenues set to double
Over-the-top TV and video revenues in western European will more than double between 2015 and…
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Lat-Am OTT tipped to boom
Latin American over-the-top video revenues will more than triple between 2015 and 2021, with this…