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

Disney+ is expected to add 176 million subscribers to reach 202 million customers by 2025, according to Digital TV Research.

New data from GlobalWebIndex (GWI) indicates that 40 percent of U.S. and U.K. respondents said they were considering purchasing new subscription services during the COVID-19 shutdown.

Streaming globally was up by more than 20 percent in March amid stay-at-home measures, according to Conviva.

Ampere Analysis has found that Netflix is customizing its localization strategy for key markets, choosing to prioritize dubbed content in countries such as France, Germany, Italy and Spain, while focusing on subtitles in smaller markets.

Strategy Analytics has revised its global SVOD projections as stay-home measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic drive an increase in subscriber take-up.

New data from Omdia indicates that Netflix launched nine times more original programming than Amazon last year.

Girts Licis, the head of strategy at K7 Media, offers up analysis on the impact the fast-spreading COVID-19 will have on the global television industry.