Analysis

TV advertising revenue in the U.K. totaled £5.11 billion ($7.07 billion) in 2017, down 3.2 percent on the record high set in 2016, according to figures provided to Thinkbox by the British commercial broadcasters.

Losing access to EU markets from Brexit could jeopardize up to £1 billion in annual investment from international broadcasters to the U.K.'s television sector, according to a new report from the Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA).

Spend on film production and high-end television in the U.K. increased by 11 percent in 2017 to reach almost £3 billion ($4.2 billion), according to official figures published by the BFI’s research and statistics unit.

Marking a third consecutive year of growth, U.K. consumer spend on video increased by 7.5 percent in 2017, bringing the total value of the category to £2.69 billion ($3.64 billion), according to new figures from the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE).

Films produced in Europe made up 28 percent of movies broadcast by a sample of European TV channels during the 2015-16 season, according to a new study from the European Audiovisual Observatory.

The European cable industry saw an increase of 4 percent in 2016 from the prior year, reaching €23.5 billion ($27.8 billion), according to the latest findings from the European Broadband Cable Yearbook from IHS Markit.

New Advertising Association (AA)/WARC Expenditure Report data shows that U.K. advertising spend grew 3.7 percent to £10.8 billion ($14.3 billion) during the first six months of 2017, the largest first-half total of any year since monitoring began in 1982.

Digital TV Research's Eastern Europe OTT TV & Video Forecasts report is predicting that SVOD will become the region’s largest OTT revenue source in 2017, with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video driving the market.

French television exports—including sales, presales and co-productions—increased to a record high of €336 million ($404 million) in 2016, a year-on-year increase of 32 percent.

International revenues for the U.K. TV production sector grew by 5.3 percent in the past year and have tripled in the past eight years, according to the Pact 2016 Census.