60 million pay-TV subscribers were added to the global total between Q3 16 and Q3 17, according to Dataxis.
Asia-Pacific had the highest number of pay-TV subscribers, accounting to 62% in Q3 17, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.5% between Q3 16 and Q3 17.
The total pay-TV subscribers in Q3 17 reached 1,073 million, up from 1013 million in Q3 16, growing at a compound annual growth of 1.2%. Almost 80% of the world subscriber base camp from Asia-Pacific and Europe. Africa and Middle-East, though contributing only 3% to the world pay-TV total numbers, were among the fastest growing regions, with 2.7% and 2.5%, respectively. North and Latin America showed flat growth between Q3 16 and Q3 17.
Dataxis believes that linear OTT is showing some traction, growing at a CAGR of 13%, which is highest growth among all the reception types. Linear OTT is most popular in Asia-Pacific, Europe and Africa Middle-East. IPTV is the second highest growing reception type after linear OTT, at a CAGR of 7%. Most of the IPTV subscribers are coming from Asia-Pacific and Europe.
CATV is showing a downward trend in almost all the regions but still contributes more than 50% of the pay-TV subscriber base worldwide. DTH and DTT is almost flat in terms of subscriber growth.
