A new report from Gracenote suggests the number of active FAST channels in key markets including the United States, UK, Germany and Canada have nearly doubled since mid-2023 to more than 1,610 today.
The 2025 Gracenote FAST report draws on Gracenote’s Global Video Data.
It shows nearly three-quarters of the available FAST channels are in the United States the leading FAST market. Collectively, more than 178,000 unique programmes, episodes and movies are available on FAST channels.
”FAST is in many ways a unique service, but its lifeblood is still content,” said Tim Cutting, Chief Revenue Officer at Gracenote. “So, program-level metadata providing understanding of FAST content is more important than ever to audience engagement and advertising initiatives.”
Other findings from the report include:
- FAST channel content is no longer an archive of old content, with more than 70% of it produced since 2010.
- Sports, reality and news/commentary programming make up the top three genres in FAST.
- Reality is the fastest-growing FAST channel genre with an increase of 626% from 19 to 138 channels since July 2024.
Entertainment is the most common FAST channel genre, accounting for 303 channels. Gracenote defines the entertainment genre as TV programs that are presented in a non-story-based format and usually filmed live in a studio.
The 2025 Gracenote FAST report is available here.
