Content and Application Provider Market - Market Analysis 2015-2019

Market outlook of content provider market
Market research analysts estimate the global content and application provider market to reach around USD 35 billion by 2019. The popularity of social networking has turned it into the most vital source of crowd-sourced content with Facebook, Twitter, and Google being the most popular content hosting sites. Applications such as WhatsApp, Viber, and WeChat are also being used a distribution mediums to handle massive volumes content daily. Regional or local media brands are also emerging in developing nations as a medium for community engagement. Qzone, a social networking site in China, has over 600 million users.

APAC is expected to be the fastest-growing region in this market by the end of 2019. The rising number of mobile engagement services and app management services in a cloud hosting environment are driving the growth of application providers in the APAC region. 

Segmentation of the content and application provider market by service type

•     Hosting
•     Delivery
•     Transport

Hosting accounted for the largest market share during 2014. Hosting requires a large investment to build data centers, powerful cooling systems and other system operational support. Some of the largest data centers are being built by Facebook, Google and Amazon.

Segmentation of the content and application provider market by geography 

•     Americas
•     EMEA
•     APAC