Analysis

Eastern Europe is forecast to have 26.42 million paying SVOD subscriptions by 2025, according to Digital TV Research, more than double from the 10.26 million recorded at the end of 2019.

Revenues from the export of French content rose by 18 percent in 2019 to reach €325.3 million ($384.6 million).

According to Ampere Analysis, France, Spain, Germany, the U.K. and Italy recorded "unprecedented spikes" in commissioning throughout June and July 2020 as COVID-19 lockdowns eased in Europe.

New research from the U.K.'s Industry Trust for IP Awareness has found that people who illegally download or stream TV, movie and sports content are at a higher risk than ever of suffering negative consequences, both personal and financial.

People in the U.K. were spending an average of six hours and 25 minutes each day watching TV and online video content during lockdown measures in April, a total of almost 45 hours a week, according to Ofcom.

The latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report forecasts U.K. adspend to fall 15.6 percent year-on-year in 2020 to £21.4 billion, which is a slight improvement on the drop of 16.7 percent prediction from April.

Transactional film and TV sales in the U.K. rose by more than 87 percent to £113 million in the first half of the year, according to new data released by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE).

As Bundesliga, La Liga, Premier League and Serie A returned last month, sports streaming surged across Europe, according to Conviva.

In 2020, the film, TV, video, radio and photography industry in the U.K. is forecast to lose £36 billion ($45 billion) in turnover compared to 2019, a 57 percent decline, according to a new report from Oxford Economics.

According to Kantar, 6 million new video streaming subscriptions were purchased in the U.K. amid the COVID-19 lockdown.