Global SVOD Subscriptions, Revenue To Double By 2025, Big Gains For Netflix, Disney+, Amazon: Study

September 28, 2020By rightstech

Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video will control half the world’s subscription-video on demand (SVOD) users by 2025, according to a new survey. Research covering 138 countries shows SVOD subscriptions will more than double — to 1,170 million in 2025 from 529 million a year ago, according to Digital TV Research.

Source: Television News Daily: Global SVOD Subscriptions, Revenue To Double By 2025, Big Gains For Netflix, Disney+, Amazon: Study

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AI Companies Get the Picture

By Paul Sweeting

One of the biggest challenges facing copyright owners in grappling with the rapid development of generative AI technology, apart from a murky legal status, has been market failure, as discussed here in previous posts. The amount of existing material needed to train gen-AI models is so great, and so varied, that gauging the value of any one piece of it to establish a market price for it for licensing purposes is often effectively impossible. One group of rights owners is finding willing buyers among AI companies, however. An active, albeit for various reasons mostly sotto voce market has begun to emerge for the use of images held in large photo archives and by photo agencies and social media platforms, complete with per-unit industry and at least a nod toward creator attribution... Read More >>

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