Analysis

The OTT streaming of TV episodes and movies in the Middle East and North Africa will generate revenues of $5.7 billion by 2028, up from $2.8 billion last year, according to Digital TV Research.

Digital TV Research is forecasting that there will be 21.52 million paying SVOD subscriptions across 13 Arabic countries by 2027, up from 9.49 million in 2021.

According to Digital TV Research, Africa will have 13.6 million paying SVOD subscriptions by 2027, up from 4.9 million at the end of 2021.

Video revenues in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are set to hit $2.1 billion by 2026, with AVOD and SVOD gains expected to make up for contractions in pay and free-to-air revenues, per a new report from Media Partners Asia (MPA).

By 2026, there will be 15.06 million paying SVOD subscribers in Africa, three times the 5.11 million expected at the end of this year, Digital TV Research projects.

The number of SVOD subscriptions across 20 markets in the Middle East and North Africa will rise from 14.16 million last year to 32.65 million by 2026, according to Digital TV Research.

Pay-TV revenues across the Middle East and North Africa continue to decline, according to Digital TV Research, with 2026 revenues expected to be 23 percent lower than those in 2016.

Digital TV Research is forecasting that African OTT movie and TV episode revenues will reach $1.725 billion by 2026, up from $392 million in 2020.

Video industry revenues from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will reach $2 billion by 2025, led by online video, according to new data from Media Partners Asia (MPA).

According to the latest figures from Digital TV Research, Africa will have 12.96 million SVOD subscriptions by 2025, up from 2.75 million at the end of 2019.