Max will become available across the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Launches will follow closely after in Poland, the Netherlands, France, and Belgium.
Nordic online video viewers’ demand for local content grew in the fall of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. Local fiction and entertainment now account for 25 percent of all online viewing on curated on-demand content.
The total Nordic video market is expected to reach €9.8 billion for the full year of 2023. The total market has grown 2% yearly over the past four years, according to Mediavision’s latest report.
After only 24 months, Disney+ has attracted more than 1.7 million subscribing households on the fiercely competitive Nordic market, according to new data from Mediavision.
Thanks to the local appetite for foreign content, along with these services’ appetite for subscribers, the audience there will keep expanding for the foreseeable future, eMarketer estimates.