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While overall media and entertainment deal volume fell from Q4 2024 to Q4 2025, PwC reports that deal value rose 61 percent, driven by intensified competition for premium IP, improving financial conditions and streaming megadeals, including the upcoming Warner Bros. Discovery sale to Netflix.

Technological innovation, experiential entertainment and mobile gaming are set to power M&A activity in the U.S. media and telecoms space.

The U.K. is set to become Europe’s largest media and entertainment market.

PwC projects that the value of the worldwide E&M industry will see a 3.9 percent CAGR for the next five years.

The U.K. is projected to maintain its position as the leading entertainment and media market in Europe over the next four years, according to PwC’s latest Global Entertainment & Media (E&M) Outlook 2023-2027.

World Screen takes a deep dive into PwC’s four-year forecast for global media and entertainment.

Following the pandemic-driven boosts of 35.4 percent in 2020 and 22.8 percent last year, OTT video revenue growth is expected to slow to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.6 percent through 2026, PwC reveals, with revenues rising to $114.1 billion.

Research from PwC indicates that deal activity in the media and entertainment space will continue at a “vigorous pace” in 2022, powered by the demand for content from streaming platforms, 5G rollouts and strong interest from private equity buyers.

The global entertainment and media (E&M) business is rebounding from a Covid-19 pandemic slump, according to PwC, with revenues on track to rise by 6.5 percent this year and 6.7 percent next year.

While calling 2019 a "transformative year" in M&A in the media and telco sector, with several megadeals and a shifting relationship between traditional media and big tech companies, PwC reports that overall deal activity and value fell last year.