Latin America. Natpe Miami's annual Congress took place January 17-19 in Miami Beach, Florida. Here the global market for the world of content was gathered and where the subject of OTT is no stranger.
For this reason, BB - Business Bureau, a consulting company that provides Primary Research tools in more than 8,000 cities for operators, programmers, subscription TV signals and media agencies, was present at Natpe, in conjunction with Fundación Exportar to present its latest developments in studies and tools for the industry.
Tomás Gennari (BB EVP) presented on the latest trends in the industry and anticipated the possible scenarios that will emerge towards 2020 in terms of OTTs and Pay TV, analyzed in the BB AudiTV and BB ForecasTV studios.
Considering the evolution of online platforms from 2017 to 2020, the specialists of BB ForecasTV revealed that they will grow by 35% in the region. In turn, they estimated that in 2020 the penetration of OTTs in Latin America will be 43% of the total population while the penetration of Pay-TV will be 60%.
"Natpe is an excellent space to bring all fans in the sector a 360° view of online content. We know the position of the main players in the market after analyzing the available offer of +200 online platforms and their respective contents, surveyed by the team that develops BB Multiscreens, Platforms & Contents. While the team behind BB New Media Essentials focuses on the demand of households with internet access by analyzing their way of consuming these platforms, where 78% of them access online content, "added Tomás Gennari.
BB presented at Natpe Multiscreens Producers, a new market intelligence service for producers and distributors of audiovisual content and reveals that BB in the coming years will be focusing more and more on content.
Text written by Luis Pinto, advisor of TVyVideo+Radio.
