Governments around the world have taken measures to keep social distance and refrain from going out to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As more consumers stay at home, demand for online shopping and videos has increased significantly.

COVID-19 is having an adverse impact on global industry, but online-based seem to be well the crisis. online-based video (OTT) industry takes crisis as an opportunity.

According to the number of new subscribers to Netflix was the largest ever. Also released at the end of 2019, Disney Plus has more than doubled its number of subscribers compared to the previous year. The reason why users use OTT service is because the monthly fee is and they can watch a lot of videos without limit.

The OTT service preference survey found that Netflix had 83 percent of the total, Watcha 13 percent and others less than 1 percent. According to a service preference survey, Netflix has the largest number of users. Among them, Netflix users said the biggest advantage is that they can see up to four devices at the same time with one ID if they choose a premium plan.

Using OTT services such as Netflix and Watcha keep social distance maintain safety and health is a good phenomenon in society.

L.L.F reporter Na-gyeong Kim