Global AVOD expenditure will reach $53 billion in 2025, more than double the amount recorded in 2019, according to Digital TV Research.

Global adspend will fall by 8.1 percent this year to $563 billion, according to WARC, due to marketers slashing their budgets in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite a projected increase in pay-TV subs worldwide over the next five years, revenues will drop to $150 billion in 2025, according to Digital TV Research.

Fourth-quarter revenues at Lionsgate were up slightly to $944.3 million, while the indie studio narrowed its loss to $44.9 million from $155.2 million in the same period last year.

Over the next five years, the COVID-19 pandemic will cost the worldwide entertainment business $160 billion, according to Ampere Analysis.

The supply and release of new content will be disrupted well into 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Ampere Analysis.

Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services will reach $1.6 trillion this year, just 0.8 percent lower than 2019, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker.

Global online TV episode and movie revenues will double from $83 billion last year to $167 billion in 2025, according to Digital TV Research, with about $16 billion being added this year.

The CEO talks about trends in reality programming and meeting the needs of commissioners.

The base of pay-TV subscribers will increase by 35 million between 2019 and 2025 to reach 1.06 billion, according to Digital TV Research.