Analysis

According to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2018, global consumers will spend an average of 67 minutes a day watching online video this year, up from 56 minutes in 2017.

Less than half of the 100 pay-TV providers included in the informitv Multiscreen Index reported subscriber gains in Q1 of this year, with the overall base down by some 5 million customers (1.14 percent) in the period.

In major markets such as the U.S., U.K. and Germany, homes with multiple SVOD services are on the rise, Ampere Analysis reports.

Netflix and Amazon are ramping up their co-pro efforts with broadcasters, predominantly in Europe, as they continue to scale up their original-content ambitions around the world, according to new research from Ampere Analysis.

Mobile is taking an increasing share of the global advertising market, Zenith reports, with it set to account for 30.5 percent of revenues in 2020.

The subscription television market—including SVOD—is the fastest-growing segment in Australia's entertainment and media sector, PwC reports.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in Russia next week, will add $2.4 billion to this year's global advertising revenues, according to Zenith.

The latest edition of PwC’s Global Entertainment & Media Outlook sees total spending on the sector rising to $2.4 trillion in 2022, up from $1.9 trillion in 2017, as digital continues to reshape the industry and we enter a phase the company has dubbed “Convergence 3.0.”

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.