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The Impact of COVID-19 on Pay TV & Online Streaming Industry 30 April 2020

  The global pandemic has possibly hit every major industry from IT to logistics. Individuals across the globe have started to adapt to remote working and isolation. With the entire world under lockdown, people are resorting to online streaming for … Continue reading

Global pay TV and SVOD subs to top 1.88bn in 2023 01 October 2018

According to recent research reports, the number of subscriptions for global pay TV and SVOD is set to reach 1.877 billion, up by 37% between 2017 and 2023. The worldwide subscription for VOD users is likely to double from 366 … Continue reading

MultiChoice plots launch of streaming service 17 May 2018

Broadcasting company, MultiChoice is beginning to roll out its OTT version of DStv to capture pay-TV subscribers in South Africa and across the African continent. MultiChoice runs DStv Now OTT service as an added-on bundled service for DStv subscribers. Calvo … Continue reading

Pay-TV subscriptions grow in Portugal by 3.2% 14 December 2017

By Q3, 2017 Portugal Pay-TV subscribers reached 3.8 million, at an increase of 33,000 over Q3,2016 and of 116,000 year-on-year. That’s a growth rate of 3.2%. According to National Communications Authority (Anacom) the growth is being attributed to the 27.3% … Continue reading

Pay-TV incomes soar high in LATAM 13 October 2017

A recent report by the Organización de Telecomunicaciones de Iberoamérica (OTI) has revealed that pay-TV incomes grew by 23.6% in Latin America in the third quarter of 2016. Incorporating official data from every Latin American country, Spain, and Portugal, as … Continue reading

Decline in US pay-TV subscriptions 19 May 2017

A reduction of 802,000 subscriptions in the first quarter of 2017 has taken place due to an increasing number of subscribers moving away from traditional multi-channel avenues for VOD (video-on-demand) as cited by research firm Kagan. There has been 0.8% … Continue reading

Pay TV and paid VoD revenues to reach 3 bn euros in German-speaking territories 26 July 2016

According to recent VPRT study, revenue from pay-TV and paid video on demand (VOD) rose by 12% in 2015 to around 2.49 billion euros (2014: 2.22 billion euros), while in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, pay-TV and paid VOD revenue totalled … Continue reading

New Study Shows That Nearly A Third Of Netflix Subscribers Have Cut The Cord 01 July 2015

Although the death of cable and satellite pay TV isn’t quite upon us yet, it’s certainly closer, at least if a new study done on Netflix subscribers is any indication. The new study found that only 67 percent of Netflix … Continue reading