U.S. consumers spent more than $25 billion on home entertainment in 2019, including digital and physical sell-throughs and rentals, on-demand and streaming, an 8.4-percent gain on 2018.<\/p>\n
The preliminary figures were released by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, a trade association, in its Year-End 2019 Digital Media Entertainment Report<\/em>. The final numbers will be available in early February.<\/p>\n SVOD spend saw a significant jump of 23.7 percent to reach $16 billion in 2019. Electronic sell-through spending was up 5 percent in the year to $2.6 billion, while VOD revenues slipped by 6.2 percent to $2 billion. Total digital spending increased by 17.5 percent to $20.4 billion.<\/p>\n Total sell-through (electronic and packaged) fell by 18 percent in the year to $3.3 billion. Rentals were also down across the board (brick and mortar, subscription and rental), falling by 12.3 percent to $3.4 billion.<\/p>\n Top-performing TV titles included Yellowstone<\/em>, Game of Thrones<\/em>, The Big Bang Theory<\/em>, Outlander<\/em> and The Walking Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. consumers spent more than $25 billion on home entertainment in 2019, including digital and physical sell-throughs and rentals, on-demand and streaming, an 8.4-percent gain on 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":9739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,69],"tags":[2334],"class_list":["post-9738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-analysis","category-top-stories","tag-deg-the-digital-entertainment-group"],"yoast_head":"\n