Analysis

OTT TV and movie revenues from across 22 Eastern European markets will rise from $1.4 billion last year to $3.6 billion in 2025, according to Digital TV Research.

With sports consumption having "collapsed" in Europe amid the coronavirus pandemic, entertainment and news consumption have soared, according to Conviva.

Eastern Europe is expected to add nearly 10 million digital pay-TV subscribers from 2019 to 2025, bringing its total to 77 million, according to Digital TV Research.

Despite a soft economy, advertising expenditures across all media in the U.K. will be up by between 4 percent and 5 percent this year, according to Enders Analysis.

Inward investment spend from high-end TV in the U.K. reached a record £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) in 2019, according to BFI.

The U.K.'s home entertainment sector grew by 9.5 percent in 2019, bringing the total market value to £2.6 billion ($3.4 billion), driven by streaming. 

GroupM is forecasting that U.K. advertising will grow 7.8 percent in 2019, to £22 billion ($28.5 billion), with an optimistic outlook leading the firm to revise its 2020 forecast upward.

According to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, U.K. adspend rose 5.8 percent year on year to reach £6 billion ($7.7 billion) in Q2 2019, marking its 24th consecutive quarter of market growth.

According to the latest Pact UK TV Exports report, TV exports from Britain reached a record high of £1.4 billion ($1.8 billion) in 2018-19, a 7-percent increase on the prior-year period.

Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC) and TV France International have unveiled their annual study of program exports, revealing that the sales of French series abroad totaled nearly €276 million ($305 million) in 2018.