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‘Yellowstone’ And Other Hot Titles Push 2021 Home Entertainment Spending To Record $32.3B; PVOD Hits $525M Minus Disney+ Premier Access
Home entertainment spending (mostly streaming) posted a year-over-year increase of 8% to hit $32.3 billion in 2021, according to the Digital Entertainment Group.
The fourth quarter showed particular momentum, with overall consumer spending up more than 11% from the same period in 2020 to reach $8.6 billion. Electronic…
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Day-And-Date Streaming Is “Winning Strategy”, But Consumer Bond With Movies Is “Greater Now Than It’s Ever Been”, WarnerMedia & Universal Execs Say
Streaming has upended movie business models, but it may simply be pulling demand forward in films’ life cycles, while still allowing for fan passion and revenue generation to materialize.
That was one major takeaway from a conversation featuring Jim Wuthrich, president of home entertainment and content licensing at War…
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Home Entertainment Revenue Jumps 21% To Record $30B, Universal Reaps $500M-Plus From PVOD Per DEG 2020 Report
Cooped-up during the coronavirus pandemic, consumers spent more than $26.5 billion on digital home entertainment in 2020. Including physical discs, the tally reached $30 billion, up 21% from 2019.
The annual figures were reported by the Digital Entertainment Group, an industry consortium representing a swath of…
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Global Entertainment Industry Raked In Near $97B In 2018; Home Sector Alive With $55B+, But U.S. Digital Spend Crushed Moviegoing – MPAA Annual Report
A week and a half prior to the exhibitor-distributor love-in CinemaCon, the Motion Picture Association of America has released their annual entertainment industry report, showing that the theatrical and home ancillary sectors were vibrant at a record $96.8 billion in revenues in 2018, +9% over 2017.
Global box office…
Home Entertainment Spending Grew Slightly, Or Fell A Lot, In 2016: DEG
Consumer spending for home entertainment either improved slightly in 2016, or fell at an accelerating rate, depending on how you want to tally the year-end data out today from the Digital Entertainment Group.
The industry organization includes streaming services such as Netflix, but historically hasn’t included some…
Home Entertainment Spending Fell 12% In Q3 (Or Did It Grow 4%?)
Home entertainment spending in Q3 was either up 3.8% or down 12.1% — depending on how you want to interpret the numbers out today from the Digital Entertainment Group.
The trade group likes the upbeat number, which tallies consumer rental and purchase spending at $4.17 billion, up from $4.02 billion in the period last…
Home Entertainment Spending Grew 6.1% In Q2, If You Include Netflix
Home entertainment spending either increased by 6.1% in Q2, or fell 0.3%, based on data out today from The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG).
The trade group says that consumers spent $4.33 billion in the quarter, up from $4.08 billion in the same period last year.
But DEG includes consumer payments for subscription…
Home Entertainment Spending Fell 9% In Q1 Not Including Streaming Services
Depending on how you look at it, home entertainment spending was either stable — or seriously declined — in Q1 based on data out today from the Digital Entertainment Group.
The industry organization says that consumers spent $4.55 billion in the period, down just 1.8% from early 2015. In addition to being “in line…
Did Home Entertainment Spending In Q1 Grow 0.2% – Or Fall 4.9%?
The answer depends on whether you believe it’s appropriate to include streaming services led by Netflix in the spending tally that DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group released today.
The industry organization does, saying that U.S. home entertainment spending hit nearly $4.6 billion in Q1, a 0.2% increase over the…
Lionsgate Promotes Jim Packer and Ron Schwartz To Co-Run Worldwide Home Entertainment
The execs will have a new descriptive title, as co-heads of worldwide home entertainment, and will continue to report to co-COO and Motion Picture Group President Steve Beeks, the company says this morning. The change will free Beeks, who has also handled home entertainment, to focus more on company strategy and…
With Anemic Blu-Ray Disc Sales, Home Entertainment Grew Modestly In 2013
So much for the high-def discs that studios once hoped would revive home entertainment. Consumers bought about 124M Blu-ray discs in the U.S. last year, + 4.2% vs 2012, research firm IHS Technology reports this morning. But with prices falling, consumer outlays only increased 2.6% — not nearly enough to compensate for…
Home Entertainment Spending Was Flat In Q3 At $3.97B: DEG
You can thank Netflix for helping the home entertainment industry to report the coulda-been-worse numbers for video sales and rentals in Q3. Total consumer spending, at $3.97B, was up 0.05% vs the period last year — even though, The Digital Entertainment Group notes, theatrical revenues for the releases were down 6.4%…
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