Streaming and video on demand services will overtake linear television by 2020, according to Michael Westphal, leader of the streaming media work group at German internet industry group Eco. Digital TV Research analysts predict that VoD service Netflix alone will have 11 million German streaming subscribers by then, equal to 30 percent of all TV households. Goldmedia forecasts that the revenue from VoD will triple to just under half a billion euros by 2018.
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