Sports Rights Forecast 2023-2033

Snapshot Summary

• Media Rights Revenue (MRR) for the Top 15 Leagues hits $66.9 billion globally by 2028.
• MRR grows to 54.04% of the Top 15 Leagues’ Total Revenue by 2028.
• Soccer loses market share to American Football and Basketball, accounting for 43.49% of the Top 15 League’s MRR in 2028.
• MRR for the Top 15 Leagues is set to grow more than four-fold over the 20-year period between 2014 and 2033, hitting $88 billion.

Snapshot Summary

• Global services’ subscriber counts grow from 738.9 million in 2022, to 1.89 billion in 2028 – passing the total count of broadband households.
• Global revenue grows from around $75.83 billion in 2022, to around $171.86 billion in 2028.
• ARPU remains fairly flat, as competitive pressures build.
• Advertising strategy will attempt to retain both subscriber counts and ARPUs.
• Threat of consolidation is waning, but not off the cards.

Rethink TV summarise all of their reports from the past couple of years. What follows are our high-level thoughts on our output over the past couple of years, and where relevant, our thoughts on how the updates of these datasets will be impacted by recent developments in the sectors. These are intended to give subscribers an insight into where the next year will take us.

Our hope is that this report will merely be Rethink TV’s introduction into the world of sustainability within video, provoking conversation and contributions from across the ecosystem by the next time we refresh this model. As the title suggests, this first report is simply an ‘investigation’ into energy consumption, and not a definitive reading as other initiatives like Greening of Streaming are trying to achieve.

Although carefully considered, the model was constructed with broad strokes in a high-level manner. We hope that in the spirit of sustainability being a universal issue, our future work on the subject will involve active contributions from the industry. This is an attempt to answer a question that our clients ask us recently – “what is the environmental impact of the video industry?”

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Rethink TV is refreshing its CDN market forecasts, and this year, Open Caching is the technology that has set the industry abuzz. Following previous examinations of WebRTC and Decentralized CDN, it looks like Open Caching is better placed to disrupt the CDN vendors, but negotiating interoperability contracts with the content providers could still prove challenging.

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Roz Hilton (Business Development Director, Video Technologies)

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We have reformatted the profiles process to make it more streamlined, from a production and maintenance point of view. Moving forward, the focus will be on the spreadsheet, with notes in cells where additional information is needed. This list of operators, which has shrunk from 100 to 92 through the inevitable industry consolidation, will be maintained.

Depending on customer demand and enthusiasm, the list of operators could be expanded. Our current majority focus remains on the technology market forecasts, and tying the operator profile database into the larger historical data we collect for the forecasting element is possible. If these profiles and this database are of value to you, please let us know, so that we can prioritize this expansion.  Market dynamics

Need more information?

Roz Hilton (Business Development Director, Video Technologies)

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+ 44 (0)7399 491840