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OTT video killer app for broadband in LatAm

June 11, 2015 09.06 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

Latin_AmericaOTT will account for 25% of Latin American video consumption in 2025, according to new research from TDG.

Latin America is poised to become an important market for OTT vendors of all kinds, whether equipment, content, or service providers. El Futuro de TV – OTT Video in Latin America, 2015-2025, TDG’s first foray into the Latin American TV market, offers an original analysis of the social, cultural, economic, and technological factors shaping this emerging market. It also features detailed OTT and TV viewing forecasts for key Latin American countries.

“Latin America is an important global market by virtue of its size, growth, and cultural relevance–and, of course, its crossover with an increasingly Hispanic US market,” noted Joel Espelien, TDG senior analyst and author of the new report.

“This developing opportunity was not lost on Netflix, which first entered the market in 2011 and is now available in 43 countries across the region.”

As of April 2015, Netflix reported more than five million subscribers in Latin America, less than originally expected. Recent growth, however, has spurred Netflix to invest heavily in original Spanish language content specifically designed for this market. “The fact that Netflix is expanding its efforts in the region should send a strong message to others that the time for entry is now.”

As proof, Espelien points to significant changes over the past two decades, including: a growing young population; a common Spanish and Portuguese language media market; and the emergence of an educated, urbanized middle class. Combined, these elements are the driving force behind a sizable base of technology-savvy, Internet-connected consumers now encountering OTT video.

But OTT video in Latin America also faces inhibiting forces, including poor penetration of fixed broadband, widespread poverty, and the dominance of legacy free-to-air broadcasters. Despite these challenges, TDG forecasts that OTT video will experience strong growth in Latin America over the next decade. By 2025, Latin American OTT video viewers will collectively consume 25% of all video viewed, generating US$8 billion in annual revenue. (picture courtesy of Wikipedia)

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Filed Under: Newsline, Research Tagged With: Latin America, TDG, The Diffusion Group Edited: 11 June 2015 11:25

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