Analysis

Spending on high-end television production in the U.K. hit £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) in 2018, a 4-percent increase on the previous year and the highest since tax incentives were introduced in 2013, according to the BFI.

Advertising revenues in the U.K. are expected to rise by 4.6 percent in 2019, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, despite uncertainty over Brexit.

U.K. multichannel broadcaster investment in local content has topped the £1 billion mark for the first time, according to the Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA).

The German video market reached annual spend of around €9 billion ($10.4 billion) in 2018, up 6 percent year on year, according to the latest Video Insights country report from Futuresource Consulting.

New figures from the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) show that the home entertainment market in the U.K. grew by 10 percent in 2018, bringing the total value of the category to £2.34 billion ($2.97 billion).

New analysis from Mediavision finds that the takeup of SVOD services continues to grow at a rapid rate in the already streaming-heavy Nordic region.

U.K. advertising is forecast to increase to £20.8 billion ($26.6 billion) in 2019, surpassing the £20 billion mark for the first time, according to GroupM.

The number of cable homes in Europe reached 69.2 million in 2017, marking another year of growth and comprising 36.3 percent of all TV households, according to IHS Markit.

Netflix is on track to exceed 10 million U.K. subscribers by the end of the year, according to new research from MTM's ScreenThink market tracker.

According to Digital TV Research, Europe will have 262 million TV subscriptions by the end of 2018, up from 205 million at the end of 2015.