Analysis

Pay-TV subscriptions for 522 operators reached 839 million in 2016, or 87 percent of the 959 million global subscribers, according to Digital TV Research.

The 100 leading TV services in the informitv Multiscreen Index gained 3.46 million subscribers between them in the first quarter of 2017, an increase of less than 1 percent.

According to data released by GlobalWebIndex, 65 percent of internet users in North America watch content on SVOD platforms every week.

Acceleration in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe and continued gains in the Asia Pacific will result in healthy growth in global adspend revenues this year, according to new forecasts from Zenith.

A new study by TiVo of video trends in North America has found an increase in cord-cutting and a strong demand for à la carte pay-TV services, with the ideal lineup consisting of just 19 channels.

World Screen takes a deep dive into PwC’s latest Global Entertainment and Media Outlook, which argues that being “consumer-obsessed” will be imperative as the sector’s growth plateaus. Companies angling for a bigger slice of global entertainment and media (E&M) revenues—set to rise from $1.8 trillion in 2016 to $2.2 trillion in 2021—must “focus more intensely” on user experiences, says PwC.

Digital TV Research has estimated that 254 million additional pay-TV subscribers were added between 2010 and 2016, up by 35 percent, to take the global total to 969 million.

Digital TV Research is forecasting that Netflix will have 128 million subscribers by 2022, with the number of international subs expected to exceed U.S. ones by early 2018.

New research from Dataxis finds that 314 million households receive a TV signal via free-to-air (FTA) satellite, representing 18 percent of global television homes.

Internet technology may have significantly impacted media consumption trends over the last decade, but the pace of change is slowing, Zenith says.