Market Trends

Cambridge, Mass., September 10, 2018 – NSR’s Aeronautical Satcom Markets, 6^th Editionreport forecasts in-flight connectivity will generate $37 billion by the end of 2027 with quality of service and measuring the passenger experience as critical issues for the market to develop.  In the process, NSR expects airlines to take more of the control over the customer-facing environment and dictate terms for smarter suites of services in what is still an underperforming market.    

Hong Kong, September 3, 2018 — Online video revenue, comprising net ad spend and subscription fees, will grow at an 18% CAGR across Asia Pacific between 2018 and 2023, climbing from ~US$21 bil. in 2018 to US$ 48 bil. by 2023, according to Asia Pacific Online Video & Broadband Distribution, a new report published today by Media Partners Asia (MPA).

Dublin, Ireland,  Aug. 15, 2018 — A new study on nanosatellite and microsatellite market covering North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and rest of the world (ROW) predicts that the global nanosatellite and microsatellite market will grow with a CAGR of 12.5% over the period of 2018-2024.

London, UK, August 15, 2018 — IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, says pay TV homes in the Asia-Pacific region rose 5.7 percent to reach 76 percent of all homes in 2017, and the number will continue to rise steadily, from 632 million homes in 2017 to 743 million by the end of 2022.

Milton Keynes, UK, August 13, 2018--According to the latest quarterly research from Strategy Analytics, more than one billion Connected TV devices are now in use worldwide. Connected TV devices allow users to stream over the top video content to the television screen and include the sub-categories of Smart TVs, Smart Blu-ray Players, Game Consoles and Digital Media Streamers.

London, UK, August 13, 2018 — A new report by Research and Markets forecasts that the Global Satellite Ground Station Equipment Market will grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.45% during the period 2018-2022.

Paris, France, August 6, 2018 – A significant expansion is underway in the smallsat market with about 7,000 smallsats adue to be launched over the next ten years, a six-fold increase from the 1,200 units launched over the past decade. According to Euroconsult's latest report, about 50 constellations, two of which are mega constellations, will account for over 80% of the smallsat count.

Cambridge, Mass., August 1, 2018–NSR’s Big Data Analytics via Satellite, 2^nd Edition report, published today, finds downstream Big Data solutions continue on a sustained growth path over the next decade, largely driven by Earth Observation and M2M/IoT applications in several key markets. Big Data analytics via satellite will generate close to US$ 18.1 billion in cumulative revenues by 2027, owing to increasing demand from end users in the transportation, government & military and energy sectors.

Cambridge, Mass., July 26, 2018 – NSR’s Global Satellite Capacity Supply & Demand, 15^th Edition report, published today, finds satellite capacity revenues continue a long-range growth path of 6.8% CAGR over the next decade.  However, near term caution persists as business models pivot to data-centric & HTS applications, amidst a projected video-centric capacity revenue loss over US$ 2 billion by 2027.  Emerging data use cases, such as Mobility, Cellular Backhaul and Broadband Connectivity, will undoubtedly propel the next wave of satcom growth.

Middlesex, UK, July 25, 2018 -- Three Chinese companies will top the Asia Pacific SVOD rankings by subscribers in 2023. Not expected to ever operate as standalone platforms in China, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video will take fourth and fifth places respectively.