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Sling TV breaks into top ten OTT video services

The number of OTT video services available in the US is continuing to grow, with over a quarter of them being launched since the start of the year and 40 percent within the last two years, according to Parks Associates. The top ten OTT video service companies, by number of subscribers, is led by Netflix, Amazon Video and Hulu, with the MLB.TV baseball service in fourth place, WWE Network fifth and HBO Now, which only launched a few months ago, is in sixth.

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