Worldwide OTT Video Viewers Forecast 2025

Slow Growth for YouTube, Netflix, and Others, Even as Billions of Digital Video Viewers Remain Untapped

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OTT video is popular whether it’s free or paid. Every global region and country we track is engaged with these platforms, some very deeply. But new viewers will be hard to find.
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Nearly everyone who is online worldwide is a digital video viewer. Some 2.50 billion of those viewers will be watching YouTube in 2025, and 2.25 billion will be watching subscription OTT (sub OTT) video. With numbers that huge, growth has slowed to a crawl in most geographies.

Key Question: How many people around the world will watch digital video, sub OTT video, and various major OTT platforms in 2025? And what will viewership look like at the regional and country levels?

Key Stat: Over half of the world’s internet users will be YouTube viewers in 2025, and nearly that many people will watch sub OTT services. Among the latter, Netflix will lead in viewers.

authors

Ethan Cramer-Flood

Contributors

Ross Benes
Senior Analyst
Franco Bernasconi
Paul Briggs
Principal Analyst
Oscar Bruce Jr.
Director, Forecasting
Vladimir de Leon
Chart Editor
Nikolai Dineros
Zach Goldner
Senior Forecasting Analyst
Penelope Lin
Director, Data Visualization
Andrew Spink
Forecasting Analyst
Julia Woolever
Antonella Yannelli
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