Analysis

The average person will spend 479 minutes a day consuming media this year, a 12 percent increase since 2011, with that number expected to rise to 492 minutes in 2020, Zenith says.

Digital TV Research is forecasting that Netflix will have 201 million streaming subscribers by 2023, up by 82 percent from 111 million at the end of 2017.

The 100 leading television services in the informitv Multiscreen Index added a total of 4.33 million TV subscribers in the last quarter of 2017, with the majority of the gains once again in the Asia-Pacific region.

According to a new report from Digital TV Research, revenues from virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPDs) combined with those of direct-to-consumer services (D2C) are poised to reach $24 billion by 2023, eight times the $3 billion recorded in 2017.

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.