Analysis

MarVista Entertainment’s Kenneth Christmas, MGM’s Matt Vassallo and Keshet International’s Kelly Wright discussed business opportunities in Latin America at a MIP Cancun panel moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati.

Revenues from OTT TV episodes and movies for 19 Latin American countries are forecast to reach $4.6 billion in 2022, more than double the $1.87 billion recorded in 2016, according to Digital TV Research.

A new study from Dataxis indicates that the number of SVOD subscribers in Latin America will double in the next five years, rising from 17.4 million this year to 33.5 million in 2022.

Mexico overtook Brazil in 2016 to become Latin America’s largest pay-TV market, according to Digital TV Research, despite Brazil having twice as many TV households.

Almost a fifth of Latin America’s TV households will pay for an SVOD package by 2021, up from 10.9 percent by end-2016, according to Digital TV Research.

The number of pay-TV subscribers in Latin America is forecast to climb from 72.02 million by end-2016 to 83.56 million by 2021, according to Digital TV Research.

Bilingual Spanish-language broadband homes in the U.S. are more likely to have pay-TV and OTT video service subscriptions than the average U.S. broadband household, with nearly 80 percent subscribing to one or more OTT platforms, according to a new Parks Associates report.

Economic woes and market maturity will result in slowing growth for pay-TV revenues and subscribers in Latin America, according to Digital TV Research. Pay-TV revenues are expected to rise by 9 percent between 2015 and 2021.

The OTT/SVOD market in Latin America reached 10.2 million paid accounts in 2015, which means a 60 percent annual growth rate, according to a new study published by Dataxis. The firm estimates the OTT/SVOD category generated $640 million in revenues during the past year.

CANCUN: During a MIPCancun session titled Market Outlook: Economic and Regulatory Perspectives on Latin America’s Media Market, José Cepeda and Dan Punt, managing directors of IFT Consulting, talked to World Screen’s Anna Carugati about the forces and influences impacting the Latin American TV landscape. Carugati began the session by citing …