Streaming technology company Deltatre today released a 25-page report on the shifting economic trends developing across the sports streaming landscape. The company compiled research through analysis of U.S. and U.K. sports fans, interviews with top industry executives, and gathered data from over 1.2 billion minutes of streaming video from sports OTT services it supports.
According to the report, sports content distributors worldwide are currently spending 15 percent of total budgets on streaming, and U.S. operators will invest more than $6.8 billion on OTT technology by 2021. Deltatre also found a 53 percent year-on-year increase in the number of minutes spent streaming sports content in 2018 compared to 2017.