Analysis

According to Digital TV Research, global pay-TV revenues peaked in 2016 at $205 billion and are forecast to fall by 11 percent to $183 billion in 2023.

Citing that confidence in the global ad market is "currently improving rapidly," Zenith expects adspend to rise by 4.6 percent this year, with particular economic growth in China and Argentina.

OTT subscription video services around the world added more than three times the number of subscriptions than pay TV did last year, according to IHS Markit.

The "big three" SVOD players—Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video—are expected to shift an increasing percentage of their content budgets from licensed programming to originals, according to a new report published by The Diffusion Group (TDG).

According to PwC, 2017 was another "massive" year for merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. media and telco landscape, with deal volume up 29 percent.

While American series do continue to dominate on international schedules, a new report finds that European productions, especially British ones, are increasing their share.

A new survey from TiVo has revealed that the average global viewer spends 4.4 hours each day watching video and about 28 minutes per day searching for something to watch, amounting to 20 percent of daily life.

CBS’s The Big Bang Theory is the top series on MIDiA’s Brand Tracker rankings, with an average 45 percent fan penetration across all of 2017.

The RTL Group-owned video ad serving platform SpotX has released a new set of figures illustrating "explosive growth" in global OTT video advertising spend across its platform.

According to Digital TV Research, combined pay-TV and OTT revenues will reach $283 billion by 2022, up 18 percent from the 2016 total.