Includes Ampere Analysis data.

"Chundi Zhang, a video games analyst at Ampere Analysis, said the shift in power to gaming content providers would be more pronounced in China because authorities severely restrict the number of mobile games via a strict licensing system."

""Last year, Netflix had become the second largest entity in Europe in terms of revenues, behind only Comcast (which owns Sky’s operations in Europe), and overtaking the German public broadcaster ARD,” said Ampere principal analyst Tony Maroulis."

"Netflix became the second largest TV group in Europe in revenue terms last year, according to the latest research by Ampere Analysis."

"Explaining Netflix’s rise, Ampere principal analyst Tony Maroulis noted that past decade has seen Netflix rapidly grow on the continent, with it surpassing US$1 billion in revenue in 2016 and having the largest subscriber base in Europe by 2017."

"“Since launching in 2012, Netflix has grown rapidly in Europe,” notes Tony Maroulis, Principal Analyst at Ampere Analysis. “By 2016, it had launched its services across the whole of Europe, and passed the $1 billion revenue milestone."

“While Netflix has enjoyed success across the continent, local broadcasters are facing increased pressure,” said Maroulis. “The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the TV advertising market into decline, compounding and accelerating the woes of traditional and established brands. And while Netflix’s pockets are getting deeper, local entities are struggling to compete.”

"Giant streamer Netflix was the second largest TV group in Europe by revenue in 2020, according to new data from research firm Ampere Analysis."

"Netflix became Europe’s second largest TV group by revenue last year, according to research from Ampere Analysis."

"Looking as to how compounding will impact business models in 2021, Ampere says that principally the he supply side of the market is compounding with major studios re-structuring to centre their businesses around streaming and direct-to-consumer."

“The Premier League has managed to push up the cost of rights over the last few decades,” said Richard Broughton, media analyst at Ampere Analysis.

“Initiatives have already been implemented such as restrictions on the appearance of Tencent’s games on Douyin,” said Chundi Zhang, a gaming analyst with Ampere Analysis.

"AVOD, studio-direct streaming launches, the strengthening of local and broadcaster-led streaming, and the turbo-boost that came out of the blue in the form of Covid-19 have brought the industry to a pivot point.,” Guy Bisson, Research Director at Ampere Analysis says.

"In May 2020, a report by Ampere Analysis revealed that the global entertainment industry was set to lose “$160 billion” over the next five years due to the pandemic."

"The average U.S. streaming household now stacks an average of four different subscription video services, according to the latest analysis from Ampere Analysis."

"Another area of ongoing change will be the increased consumption of digital content and a more rapid decline of physical media sales." - Ampere analyst Piers Harding-Rolls believes the pandemic will have a lasting effect on the games industry, just one of many predictions in our annual round-up of analyst predictions for the year ahead."

"“The deal went wrong because of classic overpromising and then a failure to deliver as well as a lack of due diligence on Ligue 1’s side,” says Minal Modha, a sport analyst and consumer lead at the data and market research firm Ampere Analysis."

"According to market analyst Ampere Analysis, in 2019 live streaming and live sport piracy in Europe cost providers more than US$1.5 billion after accounting for pirate consumers’ legal spend contribution to broadcasters’ average revenue per user (ARPU)."

"Bundling will characterise global TV throughout 2021 as the streaming TV boom forces a re-engineering of the TV value chain and the strategies for reaching the end viewer, according to Guy Bisson, Research Director at Ampere Analysis."

"Ampere Analysis’ Piers Harding-Rolls further added credence to this rumor by noting: “Last year I was unconvinced there would be a new flagship model Switch in 2020, but it makes more commercial sense to release an updated version in 2021.""

Includes predictions from Piers Harding-Rolls, Ampere Research Director, Games.

"Ampere Analysis estimated the average number of subscription services per home at 3.8 even before the pandemic, up from 2.8 a year ago."

"Chundi Zhang, a video games analyst at Ampere Analysis, chalked up the early success of Honour of Kings to rapid iteration due to competition with We MOBA after the initial flop. “They were able to find the users’ pain points and made a true return to the essence of the MOBA game,” he said."

"Ampere Analysis' Piers Harding-Rolls and Kantan Games' Dr. Serkan Toto believe that a new Switch model would help boost the strong sales of the company."

"Indeed, data from Ampere Analysis in the fall of last year found that Western European commissioners were driving a new boom in format production."

"Ampere Analysis says that it expects Sony to sell 8.5 million PS5s by the end of March, as compared to 6.5 million for the Xbox Series X+S: Ampere’s Piers Harding-Rolls told Newsweek that he expects demand to outstrip supply for “at least a few months” into 2021."

“Certain markets are becoming prohibitively expensive to produce in, which would include the U.S. and to a lesser extent the U.K.,” says Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson.

“Where these apps can play a role is in bringing in younger audiences to sports,” says Minal Modha, consumer research lead at data and market research firm Ampere Analysis.

“We’re seeing more older consumers start to recognise the value of an on-demand subscription service,” explains Ampere analyst Daniel Harraghy.

"Collectively, the major entertainment companies have laid off several thousand employees this year in cost-cutting, as company leaders look to offset the $160 billion Ampere Analysis estimates the global entertainment sector will lose over the next five years due to the pandemic."

"PS5 launch supply has been front-loaded significantly more than the PS4 generation," said Piers Harding-Rolls, a games industry expert who heads Ampere Analysis.

"Research from Ampere Analysis is predicting that in one of the world’s most competitive online video markets, a diverse range of content interests and high streaming demand are likely to provide ample growth opportunities for new studio-led streamers and other international SVODs such as BritBox, Paramount + and HBO Max."

“Given the increasing numbers of storefronts and services--from subscriptions to cloud gaming--content has become even more valuable, especially unique IP,” Shorthouse told GameDaily. “It is the key point of differentiation for consumers.” {Louise Shorthouse, Senior Analyst at Ampere Analysis}.

"Maria Dunleavey, analyst at Ampere Analysis, noted, “As a region where there is demand for both English language and local content, the Nordics is an attractive market for new international players to launch there while allowing local players to co-exist."

"Ampere believes the Nordics could be a region of interest for BritBox and other international players as they push ahead with international expansion. BritBox’s classic English language content is well-suited to the local audience which rates British series highly."

"Ampere Analysis says the average US streaming household now takes four subscription services, compared to two in Europe."

"Ampere’s latest analysis of the US and European SVoD market reveals that the average US streaming household now stacks an average of four different subscription video services."

Alexios Dimitropoulos, research manager at Ampere Analysis said: “2020 has been an incredible year for SVoD. The pandemic drove a massive growth in the number of subscriptions, and the new services that launched this year have posted impressive customer numbers."

"While the amount of content is notable, Ampere points out that established players like Amazon and Netflix are increasingly unable to licence content from their previous suppliers who are now launching their own service."

"Additional findings from the Ampere report show that households with young children are more likely to have more SVOD services. A U.S. family with elementary-age children has an average of five streaming services."

"That is the standout finding from Ampere Analysis's latest analysis of the US and European subscription video-on-demand arena makes the bleak prediction that the so-called golden age of cheap streaming TV is coming to an end."

"Chicago-based Redbox is joining a burgeoning AVOD market that Ampere Analysis found accounts for 20% of all domestic Internet users are accessing ad-supported services"

"A study performed by Ampere Analysis comparing HBO Max to Comcast's (NASDAQ:CMCSA) nascent Peacock found that 25- to 44-year-olds were far more likely to watch HBO Max."

"“HBO needed to break the deadlock and find a compromise” with Roku, analyst Tony Maroulis says."

"Its declared revenue in the UK to date (previously derived from its holding company Netflix Services UK) has been out of kilter with its subscriber numbers, estimated to hit 14 million in 2021, which in turn would amount to £1.3 billion in revenue, according to analytics firm Ampere Analysis."

"According to Ampere Analysis, Netflix will reach 14 million U.K. subscribers in 2021."

"New data from Ampere Analysis contends global box office dropped 75% in 2020 to $11 billion from $44 billion in 2019."

"According to {Richard} Cooper’s analysis, the number of sci-fi/ fantasy and horror titles available across 16 VoD platforms in the US actually declined by 5% in January this year."

"Ampere Analysis has published revised forecasts for global box office revenues in 2020, now just 25 per cent of the original estimate made in January, showing the devastating effect of coronavirus on the sector."

"Next year, Netflix UK is forecast to hit 14 million subscribers, generating £1.3bn in revenues, according to the data and analytics firm Ampere Analysis."

Callum Sillars, Analyst, Ampere Analysis: "Although some media such as radio or cinema advertising may never recover to pre-pandemic levels due to shifts in consumer habits, broadcasters offering TV advertising are in a great position to capitalize on the digital video boom."

“The years have passed and Netflix’s original subscribers, first-mover millennials, have aged with it [and] will now have younger children of their own,” said Daniel Gadher, an analyst at Ampere Analysis."

"According to research from Ampere Analysis, streaming providers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime would pay up to $400,000 per hour of documentary content."

"Chundi Zhang, a video games analyst at Ampere Analysis, said the increased focus on casual and indie games could suggest ByteDance is finding it harder to compete with its more experienced rivals than it initially thought."

"According to Ampere Analysis research, finding its way to this column by way of Bloomberg, streaming services might spend ‘several hundred thousands of pounds per hour on a show’."

Ampere Analysis’s Guy Bisson points out that his company’s data “suggests that across the TV market as a whole, there are still plenty of episodic shows making the rounds and airing.”

"Some analysts note that these acquisitions are less about quality and more about quantity, a conceit pointed out by Louise Shorthouse, senior analyst at Ampere Analysis. “These latest acquisitions, along with previous ones, are virtually all indie or AA-studios,” Shorthouse told GameDaily."

“Netflix and Amazon Prime video take distinctly different approaches to content localisation. Amazon Prime Video offers higher rates of local content and dubbing in its key retail markets, including India, Germany and Japan,” said Lottie Towler, senior analyst at Ampere Analysis.

"Ampere’s Consumer media and entertainment tracker has found that consumers in English speaking markets are the least likely to enjoy foreign language content, with consumer preferences towards subtitled and dubbed content the lowest in the UK and South Africa."

"Guy Bisson, research director at Ampere Analysis, reckons that Direct is a logical experiment that doesn’t cost Netflix anything as it’s easy enough to play out non-linear programming in a linear fashion without the requirement of any additional input structure."

"Disney will spend just $1.3 billion on original content for Disney+ this year, including its breakout hit, The Mandalorian, according to a 2020 year-end forecast from analytics firm Ampere."

"Research from Ampere Analysis suggests that consumers in English speaking markets are the least likely to watch foreign language content, with the UK and South Africa recording the lowest preferences for subtitled and dubbed content."

"And it’s not unreasonable to expect Netflix, Amazon Prime or whoever might acquire the broadcast rights to spend several hundred thousand pounds per hour on a show, according to Ampere Analysis analyst Richard Broughton."

"And it’s not unreasonable to expect Netflix, Amazon Prime or whoever might acquire the broadcast rights to spend several hundred thousand pounds per hour on a show, according to Ampere Analysis analyst Richard Broughton."

“We expect demand for the new consoles to outstrip supply up until at least the end of March 2021,” said Piers Harding-Rolls, research director of games at Ampere Analysis.

"The consultancy Ampere Analysis expects sales of 13.5 million Xbox Series X and S consoles by the end of 2021."

"{Richard} Broughton went on to note that Bloomberg Media’s integration with a variety of streaming services and the publisher’s ability to cross-promote it across channels, including its main webpage, will serve it well."

"It is effectively zero cost for Netflix to stream programming in a linear fashion," says Guy Bisson, Executive Director, Ampere Analysis.

“Demand will outstrip supply so there’s going to be some people who won’t get a-hold of the console when they want to,” said Piers Harding-Rolls, director of Ampere’s games research.

"Almost 80% of that spend was “inward investment” from the likes of Netflix and Amazon, which have a combined 25 million UK viewers and almost 350 million globally, according to Ampere Analysis."

"Piers Harding-Rolls at Ampere Analysis, a media-analysis firm, thinks 5m new PlayStations will be sold in the run-up to Christmas, compared with 3.9m Xboxes."

According to Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson, “The next frontier really for streaming television globally, is how we really aggregate everything that’s been disaggregated over the past 10 years.”

“There’s been much speculation about capacity of a household to purchase individual OTT services,” said Guy Bisson, at Ampere Analysis. “The ceiling could be somewhere between five and 10 services, depending on the market.”

"Louise Shorthouse, a senior games analyst at Ampere Analysis, told CNBC that it’s hard to say how popular the new Crash game will be. “Crash Bandicoot is obviously a well-known (and well-loved) IP, but we’ve seen before that this doesn’t guarantee success.”

“The optics of a really big crowd trying to get a product, and the way that the public would view that brand as not being COVID-safe, is not a good look,” said Piers Harding-Rolls.

"A recent global study conducted for Synamedia by Ampere Analysis found that while 89 per cent of sports fans have a pay-TV or subscription over-the-top (OTT) service, more than half (51 per cent) still watch pirate sports services at least once a month."

“Our recent research has shown that Netflix is beginning to invest in its original unscripted formats on an industrial scale,” Alice Thorpe, analyst at Ampere, said in a statement.

“Facebook offering cloud gaming in the mobile games space is a natural extension of its existing offering within Facebook Gaming and its mobile ads business,” Harding-Rolls told GameDaily.

"The report, featuring research conducted by Ampere Analysis, finds that the biggest deterrents for viewers of pirate sports streams are the fear of disruption to their viewing, and the risk of legal and social consequences – including being arrested or fined."

It also features research conducted by Ampere Analysis alongside new strategies for sports rights owners and pay-TV providers to combat streaming piracy while proposing creative ways of luring sports fans to legal services.

Research from Ampere Analysis has shown that Western European commissioners are driving a new surge in format production fuelling a huge uptick in commissioning of formatted shows in the past year.

While Covid-19 has added fuel to the format fire, growing demand for shows based on successful formats began before the virus hit, according to Ampere Analysis.

“Tackling Sports Piracy in an IP World” from Synamedia features research from Ampere Analysis and provides new strategies for sports rights owners and pay-TV providers to combat streaming piracy, as well as proposing how to bring sports fans to legal services

It may not all be bad news for the multiplexes, however, according to Ampere Analysis analyst Peter Ingram. “Major film postponements, despite being bad news for cinema-chains short term, are still a vote of confidence from studios in cinemas,” he tells IBC365.

Analysis of Ampere’s Consumer media consumption and behaviour tracker surveying 4,000 US Internet users has revealed a solid performance for both HBO Max which launched at the end of May, and NBCUniversal’s Peacock which followed in July.

Annabel Yeomans, senior analyst, said: “Peacock’s early adopters show that it has been successful in converting broadcast channel audiences — who are an older demographic and typically more difficult to convert — into SVOD subscribers, allowing it to play in an arena that is generally less competitive.

The latest analysis of Ampere’s Consumer media consumption and behaviour tracker surveying 4,000 US Internet users showed that despite lockdown rules delaying some of the content each SVOD service had planned, at the time fieldwork in August and September 2020, 8% of US Internet households already had active subscriptions to HBO Max, and 7% were using Peacock.

“Peacock’s early adopters show that it has been successful in converting broadcast channel audiences — who are an older demographic and typically more difficult to convert — into SVOD subscribers, allowing it to play in an arena that is generally less competitive,” senior analyst Annabel Yeomans said in a statement.

“This time next year, there will be a significant number of strong services,” he said. “A time will come when consumers hit a crunch point, with their wallets being stretched by all these different services.” {Richard Broughton, Research Director}

As the studios hold back ever more of their flagship shows for their own OTT platforms, two new categories of market drivers have emerged: Super Indies — to use Ampere Analysis’ coinage — such as Banijay, Fremantle, BBC Studios, ITV and Beta Film; and global streamers, more of whom are ever more active.

According to a new report from Ampere Analysis, despite ostensibly serving the same purpose – i.e. entertainment video delivery – the two platform types are not competing for the same audience.

In this year’s third quarter, 17% — or nearly one in five — U.S. internet users watched one or more ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) services in the previous month — up from 13% in Q3 2019, according to the latest research from Ampere Analysis.

Ampere Analysis estimates Netflix’s share of the other-the-top subscription market, despite its massive investment in original content, has fallen from 52% in 2014 to 19% in 2019, and an estimated 18% in 2020.

The latest research from Ampere Analysis has found that almost one in five US internet users are accessing AVoD (Ad-supported Video on Demand) services.

Minal Modha, Consumer Research Lead at Ampere Analysis says: “The Video on Demand market continues to expand and fragment, offering viewers more choice of platforms. Free ad-funded platforms will find themselves well-positioned to attract an audience that is either unable or unwilling to pay for multiple subscriptions."

Ampere estimates Apple will spend about $2 billion on content in 2020 on a P&L basis. The P&L basis reflects spending on projects that get released during 2020.

Recent data from Ampere Analysis shows that two years ago, in the last quarter of 2018, a boom time for international drama, 8% of scripted commissions were co-productions, with 64 recorded during this period.

Gaming analyst Piers Harding-Rolls, from Ampere Analysis, said Microsoft's own "evolution" had been expected.

Ampere data in the FT looking at studio and Box Office revenues.

According to a new report from Ampere Analysis on the second quarter of 2020, bellwether pay-TV companies throughout the world added more than 3.1 million subscribers.

One trend Ampere Analysis has picked up is the upswing in the acceptance and demand for non-English language, non-U.S. content, Bisson commented.

“While some countries are seeing pay-TV subscriptions suffer due to the COVID pandemic, particularly caused by the transient loss of sport, there is still growth in the market, driven partly by bundling of services and by emerging markets,” commented Ampere Analysis senior analyst Toby Holleran.

Ampere Analysis latest pay-TV barometer reports that pay-TV subscriber totals were 0.5% higher than in Q1 2020.

"The pay-TV market may be in decline — especially in the United States — but globally, the industry saw an addition of 3.1 million subscribers in the second quarter (ended June 30), according to new data from Ampere Analysis."

Ampere Analysis in London says the number today is higher. The Disney+ service, which launched on Nov. 12 last year, signed up a total of 60.5 million customers in its first nine months.

“For Netflix to target the whole region coming in with a higher price, the mobile market will be crucial,” said Ben McMurray of Ampere Analysis.

Guy Bisson, research director at Ampere Analysis, underlines this: “Non-English-language content is on a growth cycle worldwide and Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world, so the opportunities are obvious.”

Ampere Analysis games research director Piers Harding-Rolls said: "The game was synonymous with the explosion in social-network gaming in the late 2000s, primarily on Facebook.

The easing of lockdown in June has not deterred people from de UK from watching streaming services – with 64% of Internet consumers using an SVOD platform in the past month, according to new data from Ampere Analysis covering the Q3 of 2020.

A May report from research firm Ampere Analysis estimated COVID-19 will wipe out $160 billion of growth in the entertainment industry over the next five years.

SVoD viewing in the UK remains high in Q3 2020 even after lockdown was lifted, with 64 percent of internet users using a SVoD service in the last month, according to the latest data from Ampere Analysis.

According to consumer data from Ampere Analysis, SVOD viewing remained high in the UK during the third quarter, even after lockdown was lifted.

Modha said: "This is particularly interesting because it gives an indication of how much time each age group may spend watching SVOD in a year’s time, and help SVoD services in their strategy to produce and acquire content for both those older audiences who are increasing their viewing time, but also for that core young demographic who are continuing to consume more of their TV via SVOD.​"

"This includes Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis, who told GameDaily that the $5.99 per month subscription already gives Luna a leg up on Stadia, even if that price might go up once the early access stage is over".

"Consoles will remain relevant for the foreseeable future, but I predict that cloud services will start to disrupt hardware sales more progressively in the [next] five-to-ten years,” said Piers Harding-Rolls at Ampere Analysis."

Ampere’s consumer data for Q3 2020 shows that SVoD viewing remains high in the UK even after lockdown was lifted, with 64 per cent of Internet users using an SVoD service in the previous month.

“As consumers spend more time at home while restrictions on some out-of-home activities persist, they are prompted to watch greater amounts of content and those platforms with larger catalogues will be the ones to benefit most,” commented Ampere Analysis consumer research lead, Minal Modha.

"Amazon is allowing third-party channels on Luna, but at an additional cost to the user," commented Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis.

Tingting Li, analyst at Ampere Analysis, says audiences were craving more entertainment to subscribe to as lockdown began, helping Disney+ to gain momentum in Europe. Li says Disney+ has done “especially well” since launching.

The acquisition was a “major coup” for Microsoft, said Piers Harding-Rolls, a research director at Ampere Analysis, an analytics firm in London. “This deal catapults Microsoft’s games portfolio into a much stronger position,” he said.

Piers Harding-Rolls, research director from Ampere Analysis, described the deal as "a major coup". "Microsoft has often been criticised for its lack of heavy-hitting first-party games franchises when compared to Sony and Nintendo. This deal catapults Microsoft's games portfolio into a much stronger position," he told the BBC.

Data from media analytics firm Ampere Analysis suggests that on average, a Netflix Original gets just two seasons before being cancelled.

Research by Ampere Analysis has revealed that producers of high-end scripted content will face Covid-related delays for far longer than their unscripted counterparts.

Research from Ampere Analysis has revealed that producers of high-end scripted content will face COVID-related delays for far longer than their unscripted counterparts leading to questions as to how producers of linear TV’s most popular content can meet consumer demand for recent, relevant and local content.

Ampere indicates that almost half of scripted commissions from the first half of 2019 hadn’t been released by the time its report was compiled.

Ampere also sees an opportunity for independent studios that have scripted projects already in the pipeline, but it may be hard to meet the demand for new content as these indies still face their own delays.

"Ampere Analysis, an analytics group, projects that Sony will ship 10m PS5 units within six months of launch — about a third more than PS4 sales seven years ago."

“The pricing is as expected. The digital version is well positioned at $399, being only $100 more than Xbox Series S, but the same power as the disc-based version of PS5,” Piers Harding-Rolls, analyst at Ampere Analysis, told GameDaily.

“COVID-19 has hit the production of high-quality, scripted content most severely, and producers will be fighting delays well into 2021,” said Ampere analyst Olivia Deane.

"Research by Ampere Analysis for the Financial Times estimates that the US streaming service’s spending on films and programming will rise by $3bn to $13.6bn in 2020."

Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis claims that by the end of the year, the PS5 will have sold 5 million units, while the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S will only have sold a combined 3.9 million.

According to a prediction from Ampere Analysis' Piers Harding-Rolls, by the end of 2024, 66 million PS5 units will have been sold, compared to 37 million Xbox Series X unit.

A recent Ampere Analysis study found that only sixteen per cent of those surveyed claimed that they’d never watched illegal pirated sports.

"This is aggressive pricing for the technology that's included in the Series X," Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis told the BBC. "And Microsoft must feel confident about the offer in deciding to go first."

The tech giant makes multiple consoles for the current generation at different price points, so coming out with a Series S isn't a departure from its previous strategy, said Ampere Analysis games research director Piers Harding-Rolls.

“At $299/£249, it is cheaper than the Xbox One X, which is confirmation that it will be dropped,” Harding-Rolls told GameDaily. “This will result in more prospective late adopter Xbox One buyers shifting their spend to Xbox Series S instead, which will itself result in the generational transition happening more rapidly for Xbox.”

Having this lower-priced entry point could help Microsoft in the console competition, says Piers Harding-Rolls, research director for games at London-based research firm Ampere Analysis.

“Female-oriented games can be a gold mine that is waiting to be discovered due to the high potential of the target user groups,” said Chundi Zhang, a video games research analyst at Ampere Analysis.

“We are all sick of COVID-19, but it had a significant impact on the industry,” Guy Bisson, one of the founders of Ampere Analysis, said Friday during a discussion on VOD at the Venice Production Bridge, the industry section of the Venice Film Festival.

“Fall Guys is made to be streamed — it is a ‘TV show’ after all,” Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at Ampere Analysis, told CNBC.

“The slight downside is that consumers believe that after we’re through this, after we’re all out of lockdown and able to behave completely normally, there will be a bit of a backlash and they won’t watch as much or might ditch some of their subscriptions,” {Guy} Bisson said.

Last year’s live-action remake of “Aladdin,” for instance, took in $356 million at the domestic box office, according to Richard Broughton, research director at London’s Ampere Analysis.

“With the global streaming wars at fever pitch, the competition for the most high-profile talent has never been hotter,” said Richard Broughton, an analyst at the media consultancy Ampere.

“Many of the trends that we are seeing now, if you follow the path back to the gestation, you get to Netflix somehow,” says Guy Bisson, at Ampere Analysis.

According to Ampere Analysis, France, Spain, Germany, the U.K. and Italy recorded “unprecedented spikes” in commissioning throughout June and July 2020 as COVID-19 lockdowns eased in Europe.

“The TV market will still be impacted by the damage caused to the economy earlier in the year,” Ampere Analysis projects

Research from Ampere Analysis has found that COVID-19’s negative impact on box office revenue will provide incentives to accelerate the move towards new movie windowing models.

Ampere has created a model based on a fictitious mid-tier movie. It says there are four scenarios of possible windowing practices.

“Historically there has been substantial industry convergence in the games developer tools business, but over the past decade the number of developers has increased so much, I believe the market can support two major players,” Piers Harding-Rolls, games analyst at Ampere Analysis, told the Financial Times.

Peter Ingram, Analyst at Ampere Analysis said: “Looking forward, Ampere believes some of the major studios will adopt split strategies that can utilise PVOD while maintaining the benefits of theatrical distribution.

As box office revenue plummets due to lockdown, research from Ampere Analysis suggests fundamental changes may be on the cards for future film windowing strategies as Covid-19’s negative impact on box office revenue provides incentives to accelerate the move towards new movie windowing models.

As Maria Dunleavey, analyst at Ampere says: “Apple already offers more than 30 channels on its US channels service with an average price of around US$6.50 per channel so the bundled cost at US$9.99 for both CBS All Access and Showtime is an appealing offer at an effective price of US$5 per service; a discount on even the ad-funded version of CBS All Access.

According to Ampere’s numbers, the maximum number of paid streaming video-on-demand services a US home would carry is eight. Ampere arrived at that number because eight services would have a price of about $900 a year, or the cost of a low-tier cable subscription.

Underinvestment in content rights is just as common as overspending, according to Richard Broughton, research director at media consultancy Ampere Analysis Ltd. Premium sports and movie services thinking about the long-term prize may need to adopt a “go big or go home” mentality, he said.

“To make the most of this capacity, OTT players first need to demonstrate that they are a viable replacement for existing paid-for TV services,” said Daniel Gadher, Research Manager at Ampere Analysis.

“Movie library cycling is about raising the catalog depth perception,” says Richard Cooper, research director at U.K.-based Ampere Analysis. “That’s critically important for a streaming service to maintain quality perception.”

Data and analytics firm Ampere Analysis has posted an ‘Insights’ article on how Netflix is continuing “gaming exploration”, which includes a couple of pie charts breaking down the “types of adaptations for upcoming Netflix titles”.

“Yes, Epic has made a point about passing on savings from cheaper payment processing fees to end users, but if this was more generally implemented I doubt consumers would notice the difference in in-app purchase costs across different games,” Harding-Rolls told GameDaily.

“New World’s success is also far from guaranteed,” warns Piers Harding-Rolls, Research Director of games at Ampere Analysis.

Ampere found that there was room for three billion additional streaming subscriptions across the world’s largest media markets.

According to figures from Ampere Analysis, there is room for three billion additional streaming subscriptions across the world’s largest media markets, even though some territories are moving towards a ‘stacking ceiling’.

“Even as we begin to see growth in SVoD services in emerging markets, our analysis shows that opportunity for expansion is actually still a very solid proposition in established territories,” advises Daniel Gadher, Research Manager at Ampere Analysis.

Gadher concluded: “To make the most of this capacity, OTT players first need to demonstrate that they are a viable replacement for existing paid-for TV services. This process is ongoing in the US and Canada, but elsewhere in the world, pay-TV has remained resilient.

Having already made a significant dent in the traditional pay-TV market, there is still a large amount of potential growth for SVOD services in major markets, according to a new study by Ampere Analysis.

Games analyst Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere told the BBC the company generated tens of millions of dollars every month on mobile platforms such as Apple's iOS.

The company has an estimated 68m Apple Music customers, while its Apple TV+ service has 33m according to data firm Ampere Analysis.

Piers Harding-Rolls, games research director at Ampere Analysis, said Epic's update breaking the rules "was done to make Apple remove the app. Removing Fortnite from the App Store helps to deliver a groundswell of support for Epic, something it is trying to achieve."

“With the exception of an income tax model, the BBC would struggle to generate the income that they currently do from the licence fee,” says Hannah Walsh, a senior analyst at the firm.

Netflix, the BBC and HBO Max have today been revealed as leading the way when it comes to commissioning LGBT+ content, according to UK-based analyst group Ampere Analysis.

Piers Harding-Rolls, a research director at Ampere Analysis, an analytics firm in London, said it was rare for game makers to yank a game from circulation.

Richard Broughton, research director at Ampere Analysis, says: “Rights buyers are in a far better position now to demand some recompense than in a typical recessionary scenario."

Alice Thorpe, Analyst at Ampere Analysis says: “Netflix and Amazon Prime Video’s originals Orange is the New Black and Transparent confirmed the appeal of LGBT+ themed content beyond the LGBT+ community."

New research from Ampere Analysis reveals SVOD services are ahead of the curve in their commission of SVOD content. The London-based researcher has found between Q1 2019 and Q2 2020, 12 commissioners globally ordered multiple LGBT+ movies or series.

“One aspect of LGBT+ content’s specific appeal is its ability to travel across territories and inspire fandom. This allows characters to travel into spin-off series as we’ve seen in Spain and Mexico. The international players are staring to acquire some of this locally produced content and we expect to see more of it on the SVoD platforms in the coming quarters.” {Alice Thorpe, Ampere Analyst}.

“There is quite a lot of pressure building from different entities, and they are attempting to build consumer awareness of the issues involved as a way to convince Apple to change its policies,” Piers Harding-Rolls, Research Director of games at Ampere Analysis, told CNBC.

“Under lockdown there has been a lack of alternative entertainment options where you couldn’t see friends and cinemas, restaurants, pubs and clubs were closed. And with traditional TV there has been a relatively limited variety of shows, people were rapidly running out of things to watch.” Richard Broughton, Research Director, Ampere.

“Games and consumption of games video is booming, so this is not a bad time to launch,” Piers Harding-Rolls, research director of games at Ampere Analysis, told CNBC.

But for Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis, the move is a very smart one. “I think this is a sound tactical move for the franchise,” Harding-Rolls told GameDaily. “The landscape for multiplayer FPS has changed dramatically in recent years, and it is now more competitive than ever.”

Fred Black, Senior Analyst at Ampere Analysis commented: “The addition of Endemol to the Banijay wheelhouse offers the new production giant a quick route to expanding its global footprint".

Toby Holleran, senior analyst at Ampere, agrees that these markets, along with the Netherlands and the Nordics will have been considered.

Data from research firm Ampere Analysis reveals that 76% of ALTBalaji content is composed of local originals, compared with just 8% for Netflix and Amazon.

Variety has partnered with U.K.-based consultancy Ampere Analysis to delve into the top local and regional ad-supported and pay TV services in the Middle East (Shahid VIP), India (ALTBalaji), Australia (Stan), France (OCS), Germany (Joyn) and the U.K. (ITV Hub)

Research from Ampere Analysis has identified Spanish-speaking territories as providing a rich seam for subscription video-on-demand services to mine, with local audiences increasingly turning to digital subscription services.

According to Ampere Analysis, Hub Plus currently has 596,000 subscribers.

“That is a phenomenal rate of growth,” says Ampere Analysis research director Guy Bisson, who cautions that MBC’s numbers may be artificially boosted by the platform’s free trial period.

OCS skews younger than the average French consumer, with more than half its users age 34 or under — and more affluent than Netflix’s subscribers, according to Ampere Analysis.

“What’s really hard to compete against is Netflix’s stock of original movies and TV shows,” says Guy Bisson of Ampere Analysis.

“We know DAZN has been feeling the pressure on its business from the impact of Covid-19 on sporting events,” said Richard Broughton of Ampere Analysis.

“Aggregation is on every major pay-tv operator’s agenda and that is a fundamental change from 12-18 months ago,” says Guy Bisson, research director at Ampere Analysis. “There is almost universal recognition of the need and importance of integrating streaming services as part of the pay-tv offer.”

Ampere Analysis games research director Piers Harding-Rolls predicts Sony will outsell Microsoft again, reaching 66 million consoles sold by the end of 2024, compared to an estimated 37 million for the Series X.

For Piers Harding-Rolls, research director of games at Ampere Analysis, Microsoft’s financial boost is the product of unprecedented market conditions.

"There's a love for the Halo brand among UK consumers, and their tastes are generally more aligned with the US [where the gap is also closer]," commented Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis.

A study using Ampere Analysis’s most recent AVoD revenue data has revealed that European broadcasters are no longer playing catch-up when it comes to first run VoD content.

Léa Cunat, senior analyst at Ampere Analysis, said: “Broadcaster Video on Demand platforms were initially designed for TV catchup viewing, but in recent years broadcasters have been investing in technical enhancements and original content to beef up their services to attract a young demographic.

A new study by Ampere Analysis has found that broadcasters’ VOD audiences tend to be both younger and more affluent than those watching linear television. This has contributed to an increase in digital only commissions.

“Twitch remains unique in Western markets for a number of reasons,” says Piers Harding-Rolls, research director, games at Ampere Analysis. “These include the Twitch Prime feature, which gives Amazon Prime subscribers one free channel subscription a month."

“BVoD platforms were initially designed for TV catch-up viewing, but in recent years broadcasters have been investing in technical enhancements and original content to beef up their services to attract a young demographic,” Léa Cunat, senior analyst at Ampere Analysis, said in a statement.

Even though it does not expect their ad funded online video revenue to offset the systematic decline in linear advertising revenue in the near term, an Ampere Analysis study has revealed European broadcasters are no longer playing catch-up when it comes to first run VOD content.

81% of content on Netflix was released in the 2010s and 4% was released this year, according to the research firm Ampere Analysis.

Ampere Analysis Research Director Guy Bisson appears on Yahoo Finance to discuss the latest streaming wars outlook as NBC’s Peacock service enters the crowded field.

“Integrating the offer into Xbox Game Pass Ultimate fully commercialises the technology and gives people using it the ability to game with the almost 100 million Xbox Live community of users across console, PC and mobile,” said Piers Harding-Rolls, the research director of games at analytics firm Ampere Analysis.

The average streaming household subscribes to about four of these services, and has access to roughly 100,000 hours of content, according to research firm Ampere Analysis.

Apple’s move may portend a harsher regulatory environment for foreign games to operate in China, according to Chundi Zhang, a gaming analyst with Ampere Analysis. He expects “imported games approved this year to fall significantly”.

According to a new study by Ampere Analysis, the average U.S. SVOD household has access to almost 100,000 hours of content, delivered via 3.8 different services.

Piers Harding-Rolls, a gaming expert at research company Ampere Analysis, said: "Brand new 'old stock' packaged games connected to much loved gaming brands and companies, especially if they are rare versions, have risen hugely in value over the last 20 years."

A new study by Ampere Analysis says the main drivers are consumer uptake of Amazon Prime’s booming portfolio and the addition of new services like Disney+ to the household mix, and the high uptake of the family-friendly service in the group.

A new study by Ampere Analysis has revealed the changing habits of SVoD households in the US. The streaming market is becoming increasingly crowded, with more hours of content available on demand than ever before.

The average U.S. SVOD household has access to almost 100,000 hours of content, delivered via 3.8 different services, according to research from Ampere Analysis.

“Consumers already have a vast amount of content at their disposal, and a U.S. household who subscribes to both Netflix and Amazon currently has access to more than 100,000 hours of content from those two services alone,” said Toby Holleran, senior analyst at Ampere.

Ampere calculated that it would take 11 years to watch it all back-to-back, and nearly 70 years if the average viewer watched an average of four hours per day.

“I see this as more strategically broad,” than just gaming, Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at Ampere Analysis, told CNBC. “Epic is increasingly active in production across different entertainment markets and is enabling content convergence through Fortnite. Much of this aligns to different businesses within Sony.”

A recent Ampere Analysis study showed that the “largest producers are increasingly serving internal needs and holding back content for their own platforms."

Piers Harding-Rolls, a games industry analyst at research firm Ampere Analysis, projects 4.6 million PS5 consoles and 3.3 million Xbox Series X consoles will be sold by the end of the year.

More action, less niche is a trend at the streaming giant in general, argues Guy Bisson, research director at London-based Ampere Analysis. “Netflix is moving more towards broad audience demographics simply because its customer base is broadening demographically.”

"It is commonplace for games on new platforms to cost more than the older platforms, but the situation is made more complex because of backwards compatibility on Xbox Series X and PS5," Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis told the BBC.

“Amazon has been gradually building its exposure to the games sector over the past few years and is predicted to make a big push with its own content and services over the next 18 months,” said Piers Harding-Rolls, a games industry analyst with Ampere.

They won’t be able to command subscription fees, though, so they’ll have to monetise through advertising, according to Ampere Analysis.

“Before the auction, the Bundesliga was underperforming its peer group of competitions in domestic rights revenue, relative to the size of the home audience and the willingness to pay of the fanbase." [Richard Broughton, Research Director at Ampere Analysis]

Ampere Analysis found the entertainment sector could lose $160 billion in growth over the next five years.

“Private equity would aim to increase Serie A’s international appeal,” said Alexios Dimitropoulos, a senior analyst at London-based media consultancy Ampere Analysis.

Toby Holleran, senior analyst at Ampere, believes that the UK could serve as a case study for how Disney approaches other markets going forward.

“Pokémon has always had a competitive dynamic, so developing a MOBA is a natural fit” for the franchise, said Piers Harding-Rolls, an analyst at Ampere Analysis. It “clearly opens up potential for an e-sports dynamic focused on mobile.”

"This seems quite ruthless, but Microsoft's strategy to reach more gamers is underpinned by its cloud business, not Mixer," said Piers Harding-Rolls from the consultancy Ampere Analysis.

A recent Ampere Analysis report into the French market reveals that overall content spend at the broadcaster is down by €1 million compared to this time last year, with investment dropping from €2.1bn in 2018 and 2017 to €2bn in 2020.

Gamesindustry.biz reports that Ampere Analysis came to a similar conclusion, expecting the Ps5 to outsell the Xbox Series X nearly 2-1 by 2024.

This comes at a time where, according to research carried out for technology firm Synamedia by Ampere Analysis, over half of sports fans in 10 countries watch pirated services at least once a month.

"If the data is saying two thirds of your audience is going to be Gen Zs and Millennials, you'd want to focus on them with your new release titles. That's the low-hanging fruit," says Ampere analyst Minal Modha.

“Honestly, it was probably always a little ambitious,” argues Henry Beckwith, analyst at Ampere. “The value proposition of Quibi from the start has been hard to clearly define. Whilst claiming to compete more in the social media world than the streaming world, Quibi crucially has so far failed to provide enough added value to consumers to justify the US$4.99 minimum price tag.”

With almost 300 shows commissioned and in various stages of production, according to Ampere Analysis, Netflix pipeline is double that of rival services such as Disney+ or Amazon Prime.

According to Ampere Analysis, churn rates in the UK for pay TV channels have shown only a slight rise, mainly because broadcasters like Sky Sports have allowed subscribers to pause with payments until live sport returns.

Piers Harding-Rolls, research director at Ampere Analysis, published a report that predicts the PS5 will outsell the Xbox Series X.

Research firm Ampere Analysis's gaming expert Piers Harding-Rolls told the BBC such events would become "more numerous as Epic tests ways to expand the game into a social interactive platform for content, or artists that reside outside of the game".

Piers Harding-Rolls, research director for games at Ampere Analysis, has revealed some interesting insight into how next-gen will shake out for both PS5 and Xbox Series X.

TV ad revenues will drop at broad networks TF1 and M6, in part because of COVID-19 impact, from €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) to €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) and €0.9 billion ($1.0 billion) to €0.8 billion ($0.9 billion) respectively, analysts Léa Cunat and Alice Thorpe said at a May 2020 Ampere Analysis webinar.

According to Ampere's data, Sony and Microsoft will both sell under 5m consoles of the PS5 and Xbox Series X in the Christmas quarter this year, but by 2024, Sony will have outstripped Microsoft again by selling 66m units to Microsoft’s 37m.

The projection, published by Ampere Analysis, estimated that the PlayStation 5 will sell-through 4.6 million units by the end of 2020, with the Xbox Series X selling 3.3 million units in the same period.

"Console gaming has proven to be resilient to economic downturns because it continues to offer good per-hour entertainment value," Piers Harding-Rolls wrote in a research note for Ampere Analysis.

Minal Modha, consumer research lead at Ampere Analysis, tells Bloomberg's Annmarie Hordern that European football clubs are starting to play again after the lockdown, with enormous financial penalties hanging over them if they don't finish out the season.

Ampere's Piers Harding-Rolls expects PS5 to sell 66 million sold by end of 2024, compared to 37 million for Series X

The move could indicate Sony had “examined ways to reduce the price point and give it more flexibility in the market,” said Piers Harding-Rolls, Head of Games Research at Ampere Analysis.

Piers Harding-Rolls, an analyst at Ampere Analysis, anticipates the new consoles will sell for $450 to $499. “Higher pricing is actually predicted to have a minimal impact on adoption at launch,” he said.

The move could indicate Sony had "examined ways to reduce the price point and give it more flexibility in the market," said Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at Ampere Analysis.

With SVOD surging during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that mass audiences are more than willing to pay for content but research from Ampere Analysis has shown a growing number using ‘borrowed’ accounts to access services.

According to Ampere Analysis’s Broadband market bellwether, 70% of companies in the market have reported growth during the health crisis, with positive net additions of more than 8 million subscribers.

Research from Ampere Analysis has revealed that one in seven online video households worldwide are ‘borrowing’ an account.

Minal Modha, Consumer Research Lead, Ampere Analysis says: “With 50 million account borrowers paying for another subscription OTT service and more than two-thirds taking pay TV, it’s clear that these consumers are not averse to paying for content."

Synamedia’s ‘Charting Global Sports Piracy’ report draws on results from over 6,000 sports fans conducted by Ampere Analysis. Just 16 per cent of online sports fans said that they never watch via illegal sources.

The number of over-the-top video services in domestic homes increased 27% in the first quarter, ended March 31, according to new data from Ampere Analysis.

The research, conducted for video software provider Synamedia by Ampere Analysis, found that of those who regularly view illegal sports content, 42% watch sports fixtures on a daily basis.

At the end of last year, it had only 33.6 million U.S. subscribers, according to research firm Ampere analysis, compared to Netflix NFLX’s 61.3 million and Disney+’s 28.6 million.

Estimates from Ampere Analysis suggest COVID-19 will wipe out USS$160 billion of entertainment industry growth globally over the next five years (when TV and online advertising are included). But children’s entertainment looks like it will be one of the least affected sectors.

Over half of sports fans in 10 countries watch pirated services at least once a month, according to research carried out for technology firm Synamedia by Ampere Analysis.

The Charting Global Sports Piracy report, carried out by Ampere Analysis on behalf of video software provider Synamedia, found that 42 per cent of those who regularly use illegal streaming services watch sports fixtures on a daily basis.

The Charting Global Sports Piracy report draws on results from a 10-country study of over 6,000 sports fans conducted by Ampere Analysis. It finds that, while 89 per cent of sports fans have a pay-TV or subscription OTT service, over half (51 per cent) still watch pirate sports services at least once a month.

Ampere Analysis research director Guy Bisson details the US $160bn hit the firm predicts to media and entertainment

Piers Harding-Rolls, from Ampere Analysis, said it would be an important first showcase for the games that would be available with the device, which has not yet been released.

Rahul Patel, analyst at Ampere Analysis, told us that tech companies like Apple and Amazon could be best placed to act as aggregators for content platforms because they already have an engaged marketplace.

An Ampere Analysis study, French Content Market: Spend and Commissioning Strategies doubled down on COVID-19 Impact on TV Revenues

“Our original assumption was there was potential to have a bigger launch than PS4,” said Piers Harding-Rolls, games analyst at Ampere Analysis.

For analyst Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis, Sony’s upcoming event is a chance for the company to capitalize on the already substantial hype for the next PlayStation console.

Research director of Ampere Analysis, Piers Harding-Rolls, says the June 4th presentation will be crucial in maintaining and building momentum for the next generation.

This is a concern echoed by Rahul Patel, an analyst at Ampere. “The branding is certainly less clear-cut than in the case of Disney, where its individual production assets have historically been more closely aligned to the studio in branding terms,” he says.

Analysis by Ampere shows pay-TV subscriber totals in Q1 2020 are 0.3% higher than they were in the previous quarter.

With U.S. pay-TV operators shedding more than 2 million subscribers in the first quarter, new data from Ampere Analysis finds that worldwide pay-TV continues to grow — albeit slowly.

After English and Mandarin, Spanish-language scripted production now doubles French or German in volume of titles, according to a March 2020 Ampere Analysis study.

Ampere’s latest forecasts suggest streaming will gain 12% of additional growth in revenue between now and 2025.

According to an updated study by U.K. firm Ampere Analysis, the Covid-19 crisis will cost the global entertainment industry $160 billion over the next five years.

The sector could lose up to $ 160 billion in the next five years, according to research firm Ampere Analysis.

The latest forecast revisions from Ampere Analysis reveal that the global entertainment sector is set to lose $160 billion (€146bn) of growth as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic over the next five years.

Advertising revenue growth will be affected most in absolute dollar terms, but theatrical will see the biggest relative hit at 11 percent, with Ampere Analysis forecasting a $24.4 billion growth loss.

According to figures from Ampere Analysis, the biggest impact will be felt in 2020 and throughout 2021, growth will be reduced each year for the duration of the five year forecast period.

The economic impacts of the lockdown and recession will badly stunt growth in the entertainment sector over the next five years, hitting theatrical exhibition and advertising the hardest, according to projections from Ampere Analysis.

Ampere Analysis calculates that the global entertainment sector is set to lose $160bn of growth and while the most significant impact will be felt in 2020, growth will be reduced each year until 2025.

“Those decisions will contribute to the global entertainment sector losing $160 billion of growth” over the next five years, according to Bisson, who noted that the bulk of the losses will occur through 2021.

A new report by Ampere Analysis reveals that audiences and the industry can expect disruption to the supply and release of new content for over a year as a result of production delays caused by COVID-19.

The supply and release of new content will be disrupted well into 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Ampere Analysis.

Disney+ eclipsed 50 million subscribers in April while UK market research firm Ampere Analysis reported that 50 percent of U.S. internet users with children under 10 years old have subscribed to the Mouse House's streaming service.

The scale of the COVID-19 commissioning hangover has been laid bare in a new report from Ampere Analysis.

Across the globe, almost 60 per cent of scripted titles with 2020 air dates are set to be delayed, according to a report by Ampere Analysis.

Unscripted TV commissions are up this year and scripted ones are down, according to a Tuesday report from analytics company Ampere Analysis.

During the second half of the year, Ampere projects there will be 5-10% fewer scripted titles released each month by the world's top TV producers

“Content internationalization is leading to the emergence of language mega-groupings for scripted,” read an study by London-based research company Ampere Analysis.

“This will allow the competition to steal a march on rival top leagues and drive better brand awareness in the absence of any meaningful competition -- with the aim of improving its standing for next season, and boosting future rights deal values” said Richard Broughton.

"A lot of its content doesn't have an exclusive feel, which niche services need to secure long-term subscribers," said Richard Cooper, Research Director at Ampere Analysis.

"For a lot of titles, you have a quite a few alternatives to the cinema," says Ed Border, research director at London-based media think tank Ampere Analysis.

60% of Netflix foreign-language titles bow dubbed into European Spanish in Spain, according to a study by media research company Ampere Analysis.

Richard Cooper, Research Director at Ampere Analysis, said not all smaller streaming services would necessarily struggle as more of these “mega platforms” become available.

Research from Ampere Analysis has found that the global steaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are continuing to beef up their local content in international markets.

Research from Ampere Analysis has identified which markets have the highest demand for local content, and how the largest players are meeting this demand.

Ampere’s Consumer media and entertainment tracker found that China, the US and India had the highest proportion of respondents regularly watching local content.

Western Europe and North America’s drama series production is distinguished by its large number of documentaries, suggested a Feb. 2020 Ampere Analysis study.

According to research from Ampere Analysis, Titles expected to gain the very largest international box office revenues have not been released on PVOD.

“Studios are not releasing ‘tier one’ titles on PVOD,” said Richard Broughton, analyst at research firm Ampere.

The team at Ampere Analysis publishes a weekly podcast discussing the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the entertainment industry.

Spanish-language scripted drama production levels about double those in French, according to a study by research company Ampere Analysis.

Speaking on Ampere Analysis’s The Amp podcast, Tony Maroulis – principal analyst at the research firm – noted that this was the best quarter in the company’s history.

“It’s much cheaper producing outside the U.S., often a fraction of what it would be for the same sort of production quality,” Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson said at a Göteborg Festival Masterclass this year.

Ampere Analysis research manager Daniel Gadher says: “One key area where YouTube’s impact has been clearly seen is in the shifting dynamics of the advertising industry.

"Epic has bitten the bullet and released Fortnite on Google Play because there remains a partially untapped audience on Android, especially in markets where smartphone adoption is still increasing," said Piers Harding-Rolls, games research director at Ampere Analysis.

Bringing all those functions together "helps it differentiate from other live streaming-only apps," said Piers Harding-Rolls, Research Director for games at Ampere Analysis.

The latest PS5 and Xbox Series X price predictions come from market-leading data and analytics firm Ampere Analysis.

In light of the ongoing UK governmental review of the potential decriminalisation of the BBC licence fee, Ampere Analysis explores four possible alternative funding models as possible replacements for the licence fee.

Analysis firm Ampere Analysis has published a new report with its suggestions of what the PS5 and Xbox Series X price could be.

The esports industry is predicted to be resilient to a global recession, with recent relationships forged with traditional sporting organisations cited as a significant driver for future growth, according to a report by Ampere Analysis.

Research firm Ampere Analysis has examined a number of potential alternatives to the BBC Licence Fee and found them all wanting.

Research Director, Piers Harding-Rolls talks to GameDaily about how prepared the multifaceted industry is to face a recession.

Although audiences might be joining him for some squats, the current popularity of Mr. Motivator is more akin to “comfort food,” said Richard Broughton, the research director at Ampere Analysis, a media research firm.

SVOD streaming providers significantly ramped up the amount of reality TV programming on their services last year, according to data from Ampere Analysis.

Research published Wednesday by Ampere Analysis under the title "SVOD services wake up to Reality" shows that streaming platforms in the U.S. and U.K. last year commissioned 95 unscripted shows, making reality, by volume, the third-most popular genre among streaming services behind documentaries (152 commissions) and comedy specials (121 commissions).

While already a staple for linear services, reality programming is slowly beginning to gain traction within video on-demand (VOD) services says research from Ampere Analysis.

"Google understands this and is the key reason the company is acquiring new talent to build out its first-party studio capability," Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis told us last month.

“It is beginning to look a little crowded,” says Richard Broughton, of Ampere Analysis.

"Richard Broughton of Ampere Analysis suggests that Quibi's biggest challenge may be "proving the value of short form video. Will [users] actually pay for it with the huge volume of content for free?"

Piers Harding-Rolls, research director for games at Ampere Analysis, told CNBC in an email that the early sales figures were “an outperformance on prior expectations.Animal Crossing as a Nintendo (intellectual property) has never been a tier-one seller,” Harding-Rolls said. “This latest release has shifted the franchise to the big league.”

“Like all the console companies, Microsoft realizes there is a ceiling to the audience for buying a relatively expensive device to play games on,” says Piers Harding-Rolls, research director at Ampere Analysis.

Arte now ranks as the second most international of European drama series producers with 24% of its commissioned series produced outside France or Germany, according to an Ampere Analysis study

Ampere Analysis has found that Netflix is customizing its localization strategy for key markets, choosing to prioritize dubbed content in countries such as France, Germany, Italy and Spain, while focusing on subtitles in smaller markets.

But as Richard Broughton from Ampere Analysis points out, “Given the timescales we were already looking at for the deployment of 5G it’s going to be adding months onto a process that is already years away.”

Research by Ampere Analysis has revealed that Netflix customises its localisation strategy for key markets, choosing to prioritise dubbed content in territories such as Japan, France and Germany, while focusing on subtitle use in smaller markets.

Recent findings by London-based media research firm Ampere Analysis, which delivered a presentation as part of virtual event MIPTV Plus, reveals an unscripted boom among streamers (best evidenced, perhaps, by Netflix’s break-out doc series “Tiger King”), as well as hot topics in drama and the go-to broadcasters for co-production.

One 2018 study by Ampere Analysis suggests that in two of the world’s biggest box office markets – the US and the UK – subscribers visit the cinema twice as often

Richard Broughton, research director at the London-based media firm Ampere Analysis, said the advertising situation may work out for NBC. “It’s obviously a hit in terms of audiences and the associated ad revenue [this year] but with the underlying loss of confidence in the market from many advertisers, and certain sectors pulling back entirely, the ability for NBC to shift a big cost line-item to next year when advertising budgets are gearing up again, may actually be, on balance, a reasonable outcome for the broadcaster.”

“Short-term, viewing of broadcast TV and usage of SVOD services may rise if people stay at home, but it would be simplistic to say that this is ‘good’ for the TV industry,” says Richard Broughton, Research Director at Ampere Analysis.

Amazon is second only to Netflix in global subscriptions, with an estimated 118m Prime Video users. There are about 35m users across Europe, with 9m of those in the UK, according to Ampere Analysis.

“One of the challenges many kids brands face is effectively a share of voice,” said Richard Broughton, research director at Ampere Analysis. “How do kids find your content in a very cluttered media landscape when the first port of call is being brought up with tablets as babysitting devices and maybe defaulting to online brands.”

“Italy, which is arguably 7-14 days ahead of countries like the U.S. in terms of the measures deployed to counteract the spread of coronavirus, has seen a significant spike in consumer interest in online video services like Netflix and Amazon,” Richard Broughton, research director at the London-based media measurement firm Ampere Analysis, explained.

In addition to households with children, 18-24 year old are also finding it hard to resist the new streaming service, according to new findings from Ampere Analysis.

UK market research firm Ampere Analysis said its findings show the platform has been “disproportionately successful in engaging core audiences in its home market” since launching in November 2019

Since Disney Plus’ launch in the U.S. in November 2019, approximately 50% of American households with children under 10 have already subscribed to Disney Plus midway through the first quarter of 2020, according to consumer research from Ampere Analysis.

As many as 50 percent of U.S. internet users with children under 10 in their households have already subscribed to the Disney+ streaming service, according to a report from UK market research firm Ampere Analysis

Amazon has already thrown its weight behind Premier League media rights after streaming 20 live games this season, including the popular Boxing Day slate. This helped the league to extend its reach to nearly three-quarters of UK fans, according to Ampere Analysis.

“There is a potential bottleneck building. Initially, that’s limited to the theatrical window and the knock-on effect on licensing to pay TV,” says Guy Bisson, at Ampere Analysis.

Scrapping the rest of the calender could expose the leagues and clubs to a liability that’s well above 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion), said Richard Broughton of media consultancy Ampere Analysis.

"Fundamentally, Disney has been more exposed than a number of other studio businesses due to the size and scale of its parks operations and its dominance in box office,” Ampere Analysis research director Richard Broughton said.

Piers Harding-Rolls looks back to Sony and Microsoft's previous launch in 2013, saying: "Similar to the end of 2013 when Xbox One and PS4 launched together, neither company wants to give one another a head start."

"This might lead to some permanent change to events like E3," said Piers Harding-Roll, from Ampere Analysis. Such major expos "were already struggling to define themselves in the rapidly changing landscape of games" he said.

Right now, Disney Plus is lacking compared to Netflix. Disney has 54 shows in production, according to Ampere Analysis, while Netflix 287.

“It’s the first time in the UK we’ve seen a major sport on an over-the-top media service and the delivery of it was near-perfect,” Minal Modha, consumer research lead at Ampere Analysis, told City A.M.

That may have an estimated 33 million users, but most are not paying subscribers, according to Ampere Analysis, another research group.

Families with young children in their home, particularly aged 10 and under, are making more trips to the cinema than other households, according to research by Ampere Analysis

New research shared by Ampere Analysis shows that children — and in particular, children aged 10 and under — are the primary factor in whether a household spends on movies

“Public venues such as cinema chains, theaters, sports venues etc. have been closed to the public in numerous markets, with cinemas closed during the key New Year period in China,” noted Richard Broughton, research director for the British media metrics-measurer Ampere Analysis

“Certain markets are becoming prohibitively expensive to produce in, which would include the U.S. and to a lesser extent the U.K.,” says Guy Bisson at Ampere Analysis.

Despite changes in consumption models, research from Ampere Analysis has confirmed the growing global demand for movies with traditional windowing remaining a unique asset for the film industry.

The box office still dominates the growing global movie market, with global consumer spending on movies up by almost 30 percent over the last decade, according to new research from Ampere Analysis.

Research from Ampere Analysis confirms the growing global demand for movies, despite radical changes in the entertainment industry.

Worldwide spending on non-sports content was estimated by Ampere Analysis to be $123 billion in 2018, a 29% increase from $95 billion in 2013.

Netflix, however, is still the leader and has 41 sci-fi and fantasy shows in development or production while Amazon has 27. Both are more than Hulu or Disney Plus have combined, according to Ampere Analysis.

Richard Broughton, research director at Ampere Analysis, said such models would result in a very different BBC — one that has less programming, less investment in the creative sector and less local content.

Nearly two-thirds of new commissions are for online, not cable, a new report from Ampere Analysis finds.

A new study published Wednesday by Ampere Analysis has found that of the company’s newly commissioned shows in the fourth quarter of 2019, 73% will be aimed at the new streaming service.

Daniel Gadher, from Ampere Analysis, told Trusted Reviews: “Redbox historically has been a DVD rental business operating vending machines around the US from stores and gas stations. Redbox, in launching an AVoD platform, will join a growing part of the online video market, in terms of platforms and revenue segment.

The results from Ebiquity’s report echo the sentiments of industry measurement firm Ampere Analysis, which has predicted 2020 to be the year of AVoD.

Ampere Analysis analyst Tingting Li explains: “UX is certainly a key factor for service providers in helping to make the most of their content investments."

New research from Ampere Analysis has found an increasing number of consumers no longer find watching TV with other members of their household particularly of interest.

Research from Ampere Analysis has revealed the unique nature of the streaming adapter market with leading players around globe each with wildly different strategic imperatives battling it out in what is a hotbed of competition.

Ampere Analysis estimated Apple TV+’s subscriber count for the fourth quarter totaled 33.6 million, enough to make it the third-largest SVOD in the U.S. behind Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Prior to the start of 2020, 15 of the 54 new TV shows Disney+ had commissioned were factual titles and the streamer is growing its catalogue with non-fiction programming because of its potential to reach kids and adults, according to Ampere Analysis.

Netflix’s Spanish production output, which boasts the first Netflix European Production hub soundstage complex at Madrid’s Tres Cantosis already one of the most voluminous in the world with 32 current or upcoming productions, according to a September 2019 report by Ampere Analysis.

Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson described companies’ push into acquiring global rights as the “God Particle” – the phenomenon whose existence is the driving factor behind many, if not most, of all current international TV industry trends.

A report by third-party analytics firm Ampere Analysis estimates that TV+ has amassed more than 33 million subscribers in its first three months of availability.

For Amazon Prime Video, “the fundamental is the competitive edge in those markets and the ability to grow international subscriber base, which is of course is where Netflix is getting its growth from,” said Guy Bisson, executive director, Ampere Analysis.

According to Richard Broughton, research director at Ampere Analysis, Disney’s relationship with Sky has been a crucial component of the company’s distribution strategy in Europe to-date.

Guy Bisson of Ampere Analysis, talking to THR: “As the TV market makes a general transition to streaming, it’s a logical step to move beyond the SVOD-only agenda that has so far dominated, towards the incorporation of advertising models as part of the wider bundle and choice options.”

A December analysis by Ampere Analysis found about 22,500 movies and TV shows on the service were professionally made

That’s been the initial takeaway from estimates by research firm Ampere Analysis, which has pegged Apple TV Plus as having racked up 33.6 million customers in the U.S. alone as of the end of 2019.

The more SVOD services that a streaming user has, the more likely they were to agree with the statement, "I don't mind seeing advertising when I watch TV," per Ampere Analysis

More and more consumers in the US and Western Europe are forgoing pay TV to combine SVoD with free TV, according to Ampere Analysis.

Figures from Ampere Analysis seem to back this up, with it previously being estimated that Brazil is the ninth-biggest OTT subscriber market in the world with more than 10 million users.

A survey conducted by Ampere Analysis shows a growth of 6.3 percentage points in so-called subscription stacking since Q3 2018; in the United States the percentage is up by 6.6 points.

Maybe stream fatigue isn't a thing anymore, with more Americans than ever before paying for at least three streaming services, according to a new survey released by Ampere Analysis on Monday morning.

A separate survey by Ampere Analysis Ltd. similarly found price to be by far the biggest motivator for consumers switching to ad-supported apps, and 39% said they don’t mind seeing ads while they watch.

"The rush to AVOD will be supercharged by some of the studios' direct models such as Disney's Hulu and NBCUniversal's Peacock," says Guy Bisson, director of digital research group Ampere Analysis.

Netflix produces near twice as many originals there (40) as in France (23) or Germany (23), according to Ampere Analysis.

AVOD is coming, and it's going to make its mark on the VOD landscape rapidly," said Guy Bisson, director at Ampere Analysis.

Nordic countries top Europe and Western markets with one in four internet users choosing esports games over other media, according to research from Ampere Analysis.

A report published Monday by research group Ampere Analysis finds that 26 percent of Chinese Internet users watch esports at least once per month, more than double the rate of audiences in the U.S. and Western Europe.

Ampere Analysis research showing BBC Studios was the most commissioned creator of new content in the UK last year.

Data from market analysts at Ampere Analysis shows that Quibi is leading the way when it comes to commissioning short-form entertainment. Almost half of those commissions are also unscripted.

“There is room for four-quadrant alongside more demographically polarized,” agreed Guy Bisson, at Ampere Analysis.

"Ampere Analysis predicts that 2020 will be the year of Advertising supported Video on Demand (AVoD) as free ad models start to build scale and roll-out internationally".

"Advertising supported Video on Demand (AVOD) will make its mark in 2020, according to Ampere Analysis".

"2020 will be the year of advertising-supported VoD (AVoD), with platforms using the model set to build scale and roll out internationally, according to Ampere Analysis".

“Netflix has by far the strongest catalogue, in the US it has 10 times the number of titles of Disney, and there are only so many Mandalorians Disney has at its disposal,” said Richard Broughton, an analyst at Ampere.

"Top 10s don’t really give you a full picture in any way of what’s been a mental shift in the popular attractiveness and willingness of the audience to engage with non-English native series,” says Guy Bisson, at Ampere Analysis.

"While our recent survey waves have pointed at the amount of streaming services U.S. consumers are willing to take is flat (2.6 servcies per US SVoD household has been fairly consistent in recent consumer waves), I expect this to jump to around 3.5 in 2020" says Ampere's Toby Holleran.

"Video sharing website YouTube attracted more viewers than BBC iPlayer in the UK in 2019, according to research by media firm Ampere Analysis".

"Factual titles have accounted for 15 of the 54 shows Disney has announced for its new SVOD so far, and this push is likely to court co-viewers, says Ampere Analysis".

"If it’s a Christmas movie that you’re after then Amazon Prime is the best place to go looking, says Ampere Analysis".

"Ampere Analysis found that YouTube attracted the most eyeball globally, except in China, where government-backed services such as iQiYi reign supreme. Runner-ups included Netflix and Facebook".

“Although there’s been pressure from both sides of the political divide on the BBC, it feels as if the current administration is more likely to act and do something drastic than a prior government would have been able to,” said Richard Broughton, the research director at Ampere Analysis

“It’s an experiment with a good chance of success for both parties,” said Richard Broughton, research director at Ampere Analysis.

According to figures from Ampere analysis, Amazon – which reportedly paid £90 million for 20 live matches per season through to 2022 – has extended the reach of live coverage to nearly three-quarters of domestic fans.

Amazon’s debut as a domestic broadcast partner to the Premier League extended the reach of English soccer’s top flight to nearly three-quarters of UK fans, according to Ampere Analysis.

Short-form content makes up 11 per cent of upcoming VoD commissions, Ampere Analysis has found.

Amazon’s screening of English Premier League (EPL) football matches has extended the reach of live coverage of the competition’s games to nearly three-quarters of domestic fans, according to Richard Broughton, Director at Ampere Analysis.

Minal Modha, consumer lead at Ampere Analysis, warned that Sky needs to up its game as consumers face the "subscription fatigue" of having to buy from three providers to watch the same sport.

Netflix is now accessible to over 300 million global pay-TV homes via hardware like connected set-top boxes, per a new report from Ampere Analysis.

“Amazon will need to accurately forecast the viewership for these games to be able to support dramatic spikes in traffic at the times of the matches” – Daniel Harraghy, Ampere Analysis

No matter what the new DTC firms do between now and the end of the year, Netflix has notched up a strong year, adding over 15 major new pay-TV partners in 2019 to be available to almost half of all pay-TV homes says research from Ampere Analysis.

“The increase in the number of pay-TV partnerships with Netflix marks a distinct shift in the industry, as more and more of the streaming giant’s traditional ‘enemies’ cosy up through onboarding deals,” advises Elinor Clark, Analyst at Ampere Analysis.

Netflix is available in more than 300 million pay-TV households worldwide, according to a new report from UK research firm Ampere Analysis.

According to a new report from UK research firm Ampere Analysis (per Deadline), Netflix is available in more than 300 million pay-TV households: meaning it is available to consumers through their partnerships with providers like Roku, AppleTV and smart TVs that come loaded with the app.

Thanks to carriage deals with the likes of Sky and CanalPlus, the streaming giant now has access to nearly half of all pay-TV subscribers outside of China, a new report by Ampere Analysis finds.

"Ampere Analysis said that, in the third quarter of this year, 15% of respondents to its consumer survey had watched an AVOD service, excluding YouTube, in the past month".

"Industry analyst Ampere Analysis claims that the US-based league would significantly increase the annual revenues it earns under its current rights deal with pay-TV operator, Sky Sports, which comes to an end at the close of the ongoing 2019/20 season".

"As the streaming wars heat up, Scandinavian networks are stocking up on homegrown series, a new report from Ampere Analysis finds".

"In 2007, the year Netflix switched from DVD-by-post rental to embark on its streaming future, the total amount TV companies spent on content globally was $90bn. Spending this year will reach almost $170bn, according to Ampere Analysis".

"It has 47,000 TV episodes and 4,000 films in its American catalogue, according to Ampere Analysis, a research firm. That is far more than the 7,500 episodes and 500 films that Disney+ will offer in its first year".

"Currently, 5% to 10% of Netflix’s and Amazon’s existing TV shows come from the British broadcasters, according to Ampere Analysis".

"To get ahead of some of these shifting needs, UK research firm Ampere Analysis researched the upcoming (announced) catalogues for Netflix, Amazon, Quibi, Facebook Watch, Disney+, Apple, HBO Max, Snapchat, YouTube and Peacock."

"As of September 2019, Prime Video had 14,819 films on its service in the U.S., compared to 3,912 for Netflix and 1,299 for Hulu, according to data provided by Ampere Analysis".

According to a new report from Ampere Analysis, the underlying effects of production shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be felt for the remainder of 2020 and into 2021.