{"id":10418,"date":"2021-08-12T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/u-s-streaming-spend-surges\/"},"modified":"2021-08-13T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:29:22","slug":"u-s-streaming-spend-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/u-s-streaming-spend-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Streaming Spend Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second quarter of this year, U.S. consumers shelled out $6.3 billion on streaming services, a 17 percent gain, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group.<\/p>\n<p>According to DEG&#8217;s <em>Mid-Year 2021 Home Entertainment Report<\/em>, consumers spent a total of $15.7 billion on movies and television shows consumed at home and on the go in the first six months of 2021, a 5-percent increase from the period a year ago. Second-quarter growth year-over-year was 1 percent to $7.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Per DEG, 2021 growth was limited by the lack of new theatrical releases, usually a key driver of home-entertainment spend. Stacked up against 2019 numbers, however, Q2 2021 growth was up 35 percent and the first half was up 32 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming spend gains\u201421 percent in the first half to $12.2 billion\u2014were driven by the proliferation of new services and the availability of major theatrical titles on OTT platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second quarter of this year, U.S. consumers shelled out $6.3 billion on streaming services, a 17 percent gain, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":10419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,69],"tags":[2334],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-analysis","category-top-stories","tag-deg-the-digital-entertainment-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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