The number of Voyo subscribers should have exceeded number of 350,000. This was stated on the social network LinkedIn by Daniel Grunt, the director of new media TV Nova and CME. This is the first officially published number of Voyo video subscribers since the television group put Voyo at the heart of its new digital strategy.
"… 350 thousand subscribers for us, another meta, 500 thousand ahead :),"
wrote Daniel Grunt on his profile, following Friday's published TV Scheme and Voyo platform for this spring.
In an January interview with Forbes magazine, CME CEO Didier Stoessel already indicated, that the number of Voya subscribers was around 300,000 at the end of last year. Although he did not specifically mention the number, he stated that Voyo is in the third of its plan to gain one million subscribers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia within five years. In the interview, he also confirmed that next year Voyo will broadcast twelve original series according to the original plan, in the next year 23 and in 2024 it should be 33 original series. "We really believe that the growth of video content consumption worldwide, and especially here in the Czech Republic, will remain for a very long time. The only limit is how many hours we can spend, "he told Forbes.
In the first half of this year, Voyo will present five premiere projects filmed under the Voyo Original brand. In addition to the new season of Surgery in the Rose Garden 2, which starts on February 3, and the three-part miniseries Guru, which were published during January, there will be the comedy series National Handball, the family drama Morning Glow and a three-part miniseries about Iveta Bartošová called Iveta.
Estimates of the number of streaming video subscribers (SVOD) vary in the Czech market. According to the CZSO, there are 1.3 million people over the age of 16. The Atmedia Index data shows almost two million people and the MML-TGI research data 1.8 million people.
Source: mediaguru.cz
