New report explores global trends in OTT video services 

A new OTT report from Parks Associates predicts OTT services will accelerate their global expansion over the next five years, with more than 310 million connected households having at least one OTT service by 2024. OTT Video Services: Disruptive Globalization estimates approximately 200 million households had at least one OTT service at home at the end of 2018.

“The U.S. leads in adoption of subscription OTT services, but other regions are experiencing significant growth as new services expand across borders,” said Brett Sappington, Senior Research Director, Parks Associates. “Content producers and OTT service providers want to capture audiences, and revenues, worldwide. As a result, Western Europe and other global markets will experience more rapid subscriber growth than North America over the next few years. ”

Global audiences also represent unique challenges that OTT providers must understand and navigate in order to be successful. Device preferences, for example, vary significantly from country to country—while U.S. households prefer smart TVs or streaming media devices, Canadians more often use game consoles than the Americans, and in Asia, smartphones and mobile-only devices are most prevalent. In many nations, connected households have mobile high-speed services only, with no access to fixed services. Other factors, including regulations, business models, viewing habits, and service mix, are also key areas of consideration.

“Ultimately, the success or failure of a service relies on the quality of its content library, but small variations in pricing and user experience can cause significant adoption differences across countries,” Sappington said. “For example, HBO has tested its OTT service with pricing tailored to specific regions, with variances from Spain to the Nordic countries to the U.S. This level of experimentation will continue in the near term as service providers and content creators continue to test and tweak to find the right formula for pricing, content, and service quality for each region.”

OTT Video Services: Disruptive Globalization explores the complexities of offering OTT video services across markets, content licensing, localization, platform considerations, and revenue opportunities. The report also includes a global forecast for OTT service subscriptions.

Additional research from the report includes:

• Roku is the streaming media device supporting the most OTT services (66% of all available) in the U.S.
• Nearly two-thirds of OTT services available in the U.S. are available in at least one additional market.
• Bollywood’s T-Series YouTube channel has 74 million subscribers.
• 70% of broadband households in the U.S., 64% in Canada, and 52% in the U.K. have at least one OTT service.

For more information, contact [email protected]. To request data or an analyst interview, contact Julia Homier at [email protected], 972-996-0202.

About Parks Associates: Parks Associates, a woman-founded and certified business, is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates provides business intelligence and research services through its proprietary methodologies developed over decades, including quarterly surveys of 10,000 internet households.

The company's expertise crosses many industries: home security and smart home, streaming video, broadband and pay-TV services, digital media and platforms, gaming, Wi-Fi and home networks, connected health, support, consumer electronics, home control systems, energy management, and tech solutions for the multi-dwelling (MDU), small-to-medium business (SMB), and commercial building markets.

Each year, Parks Associates brings thousands of leaders together for its webinars and annual events. The firm hosts the annual executive research and strategy conferences CONNECTIONS™, Connected Health Summit, Smart Energy Summit, Smart Spaces, and Future of Video. https://www.parksassociates.com
 

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