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Kristin Brzoznowski

Kristin Brzoznowski is the executive editor of World Screen. She can be reached at kbrzoznowski@worldscreen.com.

MEA SVOD Subscriptions Set for Fivefold Increase

October 5, 2016

The SVOD sector in the Middle East and Africa is forecast to have nearly 20 million paying SVOD subscribers by 2021, up from 3.7 million expected by end-2016, according to Digital TV Research. Netflix is expected to reach 3.37 million subs in the MEA region by 2021, followed by Icflix with 1.85 million, iRoko with 1.55 million, Starz Play with 1.39 million and ShowMax with 992,000.

IHS: MENA Pay-TV Market Booming

May 23, 2016

A new report from IHS reveals that the pay-TV market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region saw rapid growth in 2015, passing the billion-euro mark in revenues for the first time.