Research Highlights

On June 24th, Malaysian pay TV operator Astro announced that Netflix streaming services will soon be available on its platform. The American streamer will therefore join Astro’s growing OTT family, which already includes Astro GO, Disney+ Hotstar, HBO Go, and Chinese IQYI. A glorious start When founded in 1996, Astro was given a 20-year monopoly on Malaysia’s satellite pay TV...

Although it generated $ 900 million, 2020 will not be remembered as a fruitful year for the distribution of local football on Pay TV. In the year-on-year comparison, distribution revenues fell by 38% in dollars. Although 2021 is expected to be a recovery year, the business revenue metrics remain at very low historical levels and the industry doesn't show signs...

In terms of audiences, the two continents have experienced a tremendous growth since 2015. The penetration of podcast listeners in Europe tripled between 2015 and 2020, reaching almost 25% of the European population while in the US, the penetration rate almost doubled in the same period, reaching 41% at the end of last year. But despite similar audience figures in...

Terrestrial broadcast network infrastructure operators in Europe have garnered revenues reaching approximately €2.2 billion for TV and radio transmission in 2020, a stable amount compared to previous years. The result excludes revenues from diversifications in OTT, telecommunications and...

Over the last three years, podcasts have been increasingly highlighted as one of the new hot trends in the Media & Entertainment landscape. In the US, the success of some widely adopted podcasts - The Joe Rogan Experience on top of them, launched in 2009 and now generating more than 190 million downloads per month - paved the way for...

Last year, the media industry was strongly hit by the economic crisis following the outbreak of the pandemic. Revenues from TV advertising in Europe, which were already reaching a stagnation point in most advanced markets, decreased significantly due to advertisers retracting their campaigns and to reluctance in investing in marketing during lockdown measures and following the market recession. Meanwhile, digital...

In Western Europe at the end-2020, the number of subscribers to premium sports channels has almost returned to its pre-covid levels. Sports broadcasters had been stripped of live programming because of the cancellation of almost all live sports events from March 2020. However, the churn and the loss in subscribers did not hit as hard as one might have expected,...

At the beginning of April, the Latvian operator Tet launched its new OTT platform, Tet+. Its particularity: a points-based system in which the user subscribes to an offer with basic channels and a number of points that can be allowed to buy access to more channels or to Tet's own SVOD service. This is the first European deployment of an...

The latest edition of Nextv Series Afrique, on March 23rd this year brought together major players of the audiovisual industries in French-speaking African countries. Top-executive speakers from the local industry shared insights on the market and discussed key topics, such as the future of local production, the importance of telcos in the development of OTT, the perspectives of growth for...

Disney+’s deployment in Southern Asia is going strong, as the streaming platform launched in India in April 2020, followed by Indonesia in September 2020 and more recently Singapore in February 2021. With approximately 30 million subscribers already (30% of all Disney+ subscribers worldwide), Disney surpassed its own provisions. Different factors can explain this success. First, Disney’s strong brand image in...