Asia-Pacific - Market Trends


Oyster Bay, NY, Oct 13, 2020

Worldwide pay-TV market growth has slowed over the past few years due to the shift from video consumption to online streaming. The COVID-19 pandemic is further accelerating the cord cutting trend, resulting in higher pay-TV churn in many markets.  Global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research, forecasts that the worldwide pay-TV market will see a slight decline from 2019 to reach a 1.07 billion subscriber base in 2020.

London, UK, October 8, 2020

New resarch from Digital TV Researc shows that global Pay TV revenues are down while subscriptions are up. Global Pay TV revenues peaked in 2016 at US$ 202 billion. Revenues will fall to US$ 152 billion in 2025. This is lower than 2010’s US$ 175 billion - despite the number of pay TV subscribers rising by 345 million between 2010 and 2025. Revenues fell by US$ 9 billion in both 2018 and 2019.

Boston, Mass., October 7, 2020

COVID-19 will boost worldwide revenue on content consumed on mobile phones by 28% in 2020 according to Strategy Analytics latest report 

Dublin, Ireleand, October 6, 2020

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Commercial Satellite Imaging estimated at US$ 4.4 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$ 8.3 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 9.4% over the analysis period 2020-2027 according to a new study by Research and Markets.

London, UK, September 29, 2020

SVOD revenues for 138 countries will reach US$ 100 billion by 2025; double from the $50 billion recorded in 2019. SVOD revenues will exceed $1 billion in 16 countries by 2025; double from eight countries in 2019, according to new research from Digital TV Research.

Cambridge, Mass., Septmeber 28, 2020

 earth-observation.jpegNSR’s Satellite-Based Earth Observation, 12th Edition (EO12), released today, finds a limited impact from COVID-19 on the EO market, with the sale of EO data and derived products to reach $8.1 billion annually by 2029. Revenues will be driven by government, military, and financial service-based customers, owing to strong demand and diversity need. Constellations of satellites featuring optical, radar, and new non-imagery datatypes - such as radio frequency monitoring - are expected to dramatically increase the industry’s access to supply and encourage new business models.

Cambridge, Mass., September 22, 2020

NSR’s HTS Satellite Constellations, A Critical Assessment, 3rd Edition report finds a US$ 68 Billion Revenue Potential for HTS Satellite Constellations over the next decade, with varying levels of business case viability.  Opportunity exists for SpaceX, OneWeb, mPower, Amazon, and Telesat to build fundamentally sound constellation businesses via high throughput, low latency, ubiquitous coverage and e

Foster City, Calif., September 15, 2020

Conviva repeased today the State of Streaming report focusing on Asia.  While the world’s increase in viewing time raced ahead 63% in Q2 2020, Asia recorded the smallest gains, inching up 2% over the previous year, according to the report. Some of the highlights of the report's findings include:

Dublin, Ireland, September 14, 2020

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Commercial Satellite Imaging estimated at US$4.4 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$8.3 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 9.4% over the analysis period 2020-2027. Military & Defense, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 10% CAGR and reach US$3.9 Billion by the end of the analysis period.

London, UK, September 11, 2020

There will be 27.16 million paying SVOD subscriptions for 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa by 2025, up from 10.95 million recorded at end-2019 according to Digial TV Research. Turkey will remain the country leader, with 11.30 million subscriptions by 2025.