FAST momentum continues with global channel count growing nearly 14% year-to-date
August 29, 2025
Notably, FAST channels offer a greater percentage of more recent content than SVOD services. Nearly half of current FAST programming was produced in the last 5 years compared to nearly one third on premium SVOD. Focusing on content produced in the last 15 years, the numbers jump to nearly 80% for FAST and 68.5% for SVOD.
Given the linear, scheduled nature of FAST channels, the prevalence of TV programming is significant. In fact, nearly 93.1% of available content on FAST is TV programming (when individual episodes are counted). Comparatively, 88.8% of available content on top SVOD services is TV programming.
Sports accounted for the largest increase among all content types for SVOD in the last three months, a jump of 13.2%. By comparison, movie content on SVOD grew 10% while TV content increased 9.2%. Focusing on FAST, sports programming was down 3.7% over the same period but up 14% year-to-date.
Other findings in the new Data Hub update include the following:
- Focusing on FAST genre composition, documentary accounted for the largest concentration of programming at 16.1%
- Drama was the second most prevalent genre at 10.6% while news was third at 9.9%
- Looking at FAST genre growth, news led all categories with a 37% programming increase followed by horror with a 30% increase
- In terms of SVOD, major platforms grew their overall content offerings by 9.8% in the last three months
- Amazon added the most titles quarter-over-quarter (12.6%) followed by Paramount+ (6.4%)
