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Friday, 9 December 2016

NDM #26: Film and TV ​streaming and downloads overtake DVD sales for first time


Britain is seeing an increasing of users in the country using digital streaming platforms such as Netflix and Twitter. The revenue for these services has had an increase of 23% brings the year of 2016 to £1.3 billion. This does not however mean that TV services are dead: music, TV shows, films and video games brought in £6.3 billion last year for Britain.

The up-rise of digital content made high street sales of physical items such as DVDs and Blu-Ray discs fall 17% to a total of £894 million in revenue. 2016 is the first year the sales have fallen from the £1bn mark. The rental market has also fallen by 21% to £49 million.

  • Digital sales rose 2.2% to £2.25bn, with the biggest seller of the year Star Wars: The Force Awakens with sales of 2.3m.
  • Netflix currently has 6 million paying subscribers in Britain.
  • Downloads and streaming accounted for over 57% of the music market in 2016.
  • Services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer have subscription revenues increasing by 65% to £418m.

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