Analysis

The number of homes paying for IPTV in Western Europe overtook pay satellite TV ones in 2015, according to a new Digital TV Western Europe Forecasts report. IPTV subscriptions are expected to increase by nearly 7 million (up by 27 percent) between 2015 and 2021. IPTV revenues will reach $5.77 billion in 2021, up by $1.2 billion.

About 25 percent of Europeans between the ages of 15 and 24 intentionally use illegal sources to access digital content, with films and TV series being the most pilfered type of content, according to a new report from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

According to SNL Kagan, over the last two years Eastern Europe has remained an active pay-TV market from an M&A perspective, with high fragmentation in the cable sector leading to ongoing consolidation. There is high pay-TV penetration, the firm finds, which limits greenfield growth opportunities in cable, while intense competition among multiple DTH operators increases the need for competitive offers.

In the U.K., SVOD viewing on services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime accounted for 4 percent of total video consumption, up from 2.3 percent in 2014, according to new figures from Thinkbox. The average TV viewer in the U.K. watched a total of 3 hours, 51 minutes of TV a day in 2015, 1 percent less than in 2014 but 5 percent more than in 2005.

TV advertising revenue in the U.K. totaled £5.27 billion ($7.43 billion) in 2015, up 7.4 percent on the prior year, according to figures provided to Thinkbox by British commercial broadcasters. The figure represents all the money invested by advertisers in commercial TV: linear spot and sponsorship, broadcaster VOD and product placement.

The U.K.'s creative industries are now worth a record £84.1 billion ($119.5 billion) to the country's economy, according to new government figures, which point to 2016 as being another blockbuster year for the music, film, video games, TV and publishing sectors.

Bob Jenkins was in Prague this week reporting on the speakers and sessions taking place at NATPE Europe and surveying attendees about trends in CEE. Another edition of NATPE Europe has come to a close, after four days that included screenings from Hollywood studios, sessions on formats and co-productions, a …

LONDON: Thirty-three percent of U.K. broadband households subscribed to an OTT video service as of Q3 2015, according to Parks Associates.