Global Over-The-Top Market Size By Content Type (Voice over IP, Texts and Images, Videos, Music Streaming), By Deployment (On Cloud, On Premise), By Platform (Gaming Consoles, OTT Streaming Devices), By Geographic Scope And Forecast

Over-The-Top Market Size And Forecast

Over-The-Top Market size was valued at USD 166.27 Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 575.15 Billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 16.81 % from 2021 to 2028.

The Over-The-Top Market is driving owing to innovative and advanced transformation, which enables the customers to access everything they want in a single space. Moreover, the growing shift towards new OTT entertainment content has risen tremendously, the growing OTT service providers are offering some of their content for free and are launching new content on their platform. This will foster market growth of global Over-The-Top Market. The Global Over-The-Top Market report provides a holistic evaluation of the market. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of key segments, trends, drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, and factors that are playing a substantial role in the market.

Global Over-The-Top Market Definition

Over-the-top (OTT) content is a term used for content delivery, such as video, audio, other media content over the internet. OTT includes connected TV, over-the-top video viewers, and linear OTT video services. Over-the-top content devices entail Apple TV, Chromecast, Amazon Fire, and gaming platforms such as PlayStation and Xbox. In addition to this, the launch of the 5G network and digitalization has enabled the OTT content providers to enhance the video streaming experience. Over-the-top (OTT) service refers to movies and TV shows that are delivered directly to digital users and consumers without the requirement of cable or satellite television subscription. OTT content can be directly downloaded and viewed on the user’s demand. Currently, OTT services are at a relatively nascent stage and extensively accepted as a trending technology across the globe.

Global Over-The-Top Market Overview

The global over-the-top content market is majorly driven by improving the quality of content published by over-the-top platforms. Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Disney+ platforms are constantly engaged in publishing new series and content for their platforms, which is increasing user base. Netflix is involved in the strategy to develop original content locally in several places, where it has a presence. Furthermore, the increasing popularity of animation content and video games on gaming platforms are significantly providing huge growth opportunities to the global over-the-top content market during the forecast period. Online gaming is primarily a highly growing application area. Key market players operating in this sector utilize OTT services to release and deliver games online successfully, with scalability for multiple users across different locations. This segment is boosting OTT services globally. Further, the emergence of new OTT markets, new developments in OTT technology, disposable incomes, and a rise in the standard of living have positively anticipated in propelling the growth of the global Over-The-Top Market.

There are certain challenges and restraints faced that will hinder the overall market growth. The factors such as lack of data network infrastructure and latency issues are estimated to sluggish growth during the forecast period. Also, the disparity in opinion between producers and aggregators over the licensed business model and a threat to the privacy of content consumption and security of user database due to spyware is inhibiting the growth of the market. The complex IP, government regulatory frameworks, and licensing regimes across regions are the potential restraints hampering the overall growth of the global Over-The-Top Market. Nevertheless, the advancements in technologies, mergers with national producers and film studios across regions for the SVOD model, and untapped potential in emerging markets offer favorable growth opportunities.

Global Over-The-Top MarketSegmentation Analysis

The Global Over-The-Top Market is segmented on the basis of Content-Type, Deployment, Platform, and Geography.

Over-The-Top Market, By Content-Type

• Voice over IP• Texts and Images• Videos• Music Streaming

Based on Content-Type, the market is bifurcated into Voice over IP, Texts and Images, Videos, Music Streaming. The video segment holds the largest market share and is estimated to witness the highest CAGR during the forecast period. The factors that can be attributed to the increasing penetration of mobile computing devices, growing investments in communication network infrastructure are accelerating the demand for this segment.

Over-The-Top Market, By Deployment

• On Cloud• On Premise

Based on Deployment, the market is bifurcated into On Cloud, On Premise. The On-Premise segment holds the most important market share and is projected to witness the highest CAGR during the forecast period. The factors driving are the governments keen on securing sensitive data associated with the national security and private data of the citizens, enterprises are concerned about the protection of their respective organizational data. As a result, on-premise infrastructure remains being preferred over a cloud-based infrastructure. Such factors are expected to accelerate the expansion of the on-premise segment.

Over-The-Top Market, By Platform

• Gaming Consoles• OTT Streaming Devices• Smartphones and Tablets• Smart TVs• Others

Based on Platform, the market is bifurcated into Gaming Consoles, OTT Streaming Devices, Smartphones and Tablets, Smart TVs, Others. The smartphone and tablet segment holds the largest market share during the forecast period. The factors that can be attributed to the increase in the adoption of mobile devices and tablets to stream over-the-top services and growth in the desired market for larger screen smartphones in developing economies are accelerating the demand for smartphones and tablets segment.

Over-The-Top Market, By Geography

• North America• Europe• Asia Pacific• Rest of the world

On the basis of regional analysis, the Global Over-The-Top Market is classified into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Rest of the world. Asia-Pacific holds the largest market share. The increasing use of smart devices such as mobile devices, laptops, broadband, and internet connectivity, coupled with the emergence of advanced technologies, such as 5G, 4G, developed payment infrastructure, and a dynamic local content ecosystem will boost the market in the APAC region.

Key Players

The “Global Over-The-Top Market” study report will provide a valuable insight with an emphasis on the global market including some of the major players such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Netflix, Hulu, LLC, Google LLC, Apple Inc., Facebook, Telestra, Rakuten Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and Tencent Holdings Ltd. Our market analysis also entails a section solely dedicated to such major players wherein our analysts provide an insight into the financial statements of all the major players, along with its product benchmarking and SWOT analysis.

Key Developments

Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements

• On June 2021, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com Inc. company, and Salesforce today announced a significant expansion of their global strategic partnership that will enable customers to quickly build and deploy powerful new business applications that accelerate digital transformation by combining the full set of Salesforce and AWS capabilities.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• On May 2021, as it competes for eyes with rival video-on-demand services, a merger between Amazon and Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Studios might give the former a significant advantage in terms of content library for its OTT (over-the-top) streaming platform, Amazon Prime Video. The acquisition is more about expanding a (streaming) platform’s content depth than it is about affecting the movie business.

Product Launches and Product Expansions

• On Nov 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has announced the addition of a second infrastructure area in India by mid-2022. At debut, the new AWS Asia Region will have three Availability Zones, joining the existing eight AWS Regions and 25 Availability Zones.

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