Netflix leads the streaming wars, accompanied by way of Foxtel’s Presto

New statistics nowadays launched by using Roy Morgan research has the american streaming giant leading in subscriber numbers, consistent with the primary primary survey carried out because Netflix’s launch in March.

Netflix’s viewership numbers are anticipated at 1.039 million Australians, while its closest rival is Foxtel’s Presto, which now has about 97,000 visitors.

Nine and Fairfax’s Stan is in 0.33 area with ninety one,000 visitors, observed by means of the suffering Quickflix, which has just forty three,000 that access its provider.

The survey become carried out with a representative sample of 2088 Australians over 14 years of age to estimate numbers.

Foxtel is still the leading paid tv service in Australia, with Roy Morgan declaring that more than 5 million people have get entry to to Foxtel in their homes.

In addition they pointed out that nearly 1/2 of Stan, Quickflix and Presto subscribers are subscribed to Netflix, that can mean they're clearly taking advantage of the free trials of one of the services.

However, Roy Morgan media standard supervisor Tim Martin said, “it additionally won't be an both-or proposition. As each has different content material to be had, many Australian tv lovers can also select to subscribe to multiple SVOD (streaming video on demand) providers, switching among Orange is the brand new Black on Netflix, higher call Saul on Stan, the HBO lower back catalogue on Presto and a brand new release movie or not on time sport of Thrones marathon on Quickflix.”

“With every new month of incoming facts collected from over 2000 Australian across the u . s . a ., we’ll be higher capable of music and apprehend how SVOD is impacting the Australian media landscape,” Mr Martin stated.

Some other thrilling be aware is that final month Stan introduced it had two hundred,000 subscribers, inclusive of both paying and non-paying, which is greater than double the envisioned numbers from the Roy Morgan survey. Quicklix ultimate quarter additionally stated to the ASX that it has one hundred twenty,000 subscribers, 3 times the quantity this survey suggests, so it is probably well worth taking the effects with a grain of salt.