The Global Market for Social TV is Projected to Reach US$262 Billion by 2020
Rapid Penetration of Second Screen Devices Drives the
Global Social TV Market, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
GIA announces the release
of a comprehensive global report on Social TV. The
global market for Social TV is projected to reach US$262 billion by 2020,
driven by surging penetration of second screen devices such as smartphones and
tablets and rapid integration of social networking features in TV programs.
The social TV experience
takes television viewing one step ahead by allowing users to interact with
other viewers while watching a regular broadcast program. Opening up
traditional television to the intriguing world of the Internet, social TV
provides a new definition to the concept of socializing over TV. Social TVs
enables technological convergence between television sets and second screens
thereby generating wide range of possibilities for the average TV viewer.
Social TV offers viewers an opportunity to engage in real-time discussions,
content discovery, sharing, and participation in television shows through smart
TVs, social media networks, and second screens such as computers, tablets, and
smartphones.
Future growth in the
market will be driven by service diversity, exclusive content and the ability
to provide a compelling social experience by allowing users to chat on their
TVs and share TV information with friends by directly connecting to social
network accounts. Mobile messaging, Chat and Tweet apps in this regard are also
poised to benefit market growth in the coming years. Partnerships between
television broadcasters, advertising companies, and social networks to provide
converged user experience will play an important role in shaping the
development of the social TV platform. Technological advancements pertaining to
handheld devices such as mobile phones and tablets, robust growth in mobile
subscriber base and rapid proliferation of smartphones and tablets that provide
viewers the option of watching TV anywhere anytime represent key growth drivers
for the mobile social TV market.
As stated by the new
market research report on Social TV, Europe represents
the largest market worldwide. Asia-Pacific
represents the fastest growing market with a CAGR of 13.1% over the
analysis period. Growth in the region is driven by increasing level of Internet
access, high broadband penetration, rapid urbanization, growing middle class
population, expanding social media presence, rising popularity of mobile
messaging apps, and emergence of TVs integrated with Internet, widgets, and
applications.
Key players covered in the
report include Bluefin Labs, Networked Insights, SecondSync Ltd., SocialGuide,
Inc., Trendrr, Beamly, BuzzFeed, ConnecTV, Ex Machina, Facebook, Inc., iPowow
Ltd., i.TV, tvtag, Instagram, Netflix, Inc., Pinterest, Shazam, SnappyTV,
Spredfast, Starling, Inc., Tumblr, Tunerfish, TVplus, Twitter,Viggle, Inc., and
VLOOP LLC, among others.
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