"The appetite for British television shows overseas defied the recession last year with export sales up 9% year on year to smash the £1bn mark. Sales of hit UK series, such as Strictly Come Dancing, Wife Swap, Come Dine With Me, Spooks and MasterChef, to foreign broadcasters earned a record £1.34bn for the UK economy in 2009.
The annual UK TV Exports Survey, collated independently by TRP for the independent producers' trade body Pact, reveals that the biggest growth area for British programmes and formats was Australia and New Zealand for the second year – up 32% year on year to £170m.
Localised versions of shows such as Top Gear and MasterChef have proved popular down under; and MasterChef, made by Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine, set a record last year for Australia's most watched non-sport show ever.
Overall sales of formats, when a foreign TV company buys rights to a series such as Come Dine With Me and then makes the show itself, rose 25% to £119m. Meanwhile, the trend towards producing UK formats abroad – a foreign TV company buys the rights for a show but asks a UK-owned company to make a localised version – gathered pace last year with a 124% rise in revenue to £41m.
The UK television industry's main customer is still the US, where British formats including American Idol (from Pop Idol) and Dancing with the Stars – the US version of Strictly Come Dancing – continue to pull in massive audiences. Transatlantic sales accounted for 36% of total export revenue, with a 3% growth in revenue to £485m. The overall North American market is worth £546m with "significant revenue contributions" from sales of videos and DVDs, formats and licensing. America's appetite for the best of British appears to be insatiable: a US version of MasterChef, presented by Gordon Ramsay, proved successful and Simon Cowell's The X Factor is set to arrive next year."
Source: Data from PACT, reported by The Guardian, 4th October 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
More than 50m digital albums have been sold in the UK
"It has taken just under four and half years for digital album sales to surpass the 50 million figure, whereas it took five years, for the sales of albums on CD to reach the same level.
The new figures released by the recording industry body, the BPI and the Official Charts Company, and shown first to The Telegraph, also show that the 500 millionth single download was purchased in the UK last week.
In 2006, downloaded albums accounted for less than 2% of the UK music industry’s total revenue. For 2010 year-to-date, digital sales constitute 19.6% of all albums sold with download sales expected to top 20 million by the end of the year. Five albums have sold over 100,000 digital copies to date this year, with Mumford & Sons’ Sigh No More being the top seller, having sold 131,737 copies."
The new figures released by the recording industry body, the BPI and the Official Charts Company, and shown first to The Telegraph, also show that the 500 millionth single download was purchased in the UK last week.
In 2006, downloaded albums accounted for less than 2% of the UK music industry’s total revenue. For 2010 year-to-date, digital sales constitute 19.6% of all albums sold with download sales expected to top 20 million by the end of the year. Five albums have sold over 100,000 digital copies to date this year, with Mumford & Sons’ Sigh No More being the top seller, having sold 131,737 copies."
Source: Data from the BPI and the Official Charts Company, reported by the Daily Telegraph, 1st October 2010
House was the most watched TV show globally in 2008
"Eurodata TV Worldwide announced that Fox's medical drama House was the most-watched show in the whole wide world last year, with more than 81.8 million viewers in 66 countries."
Source: Eurodata TV Worldwide, reported by Entertainment Weekly, 29th June 2009
Source: Eurodata TV Worldwide, reported by Entertainment Weekly, 29th June 2009
Friday, October 1, 2010
A Facebook user who 'likes' content is likely to have twice as many friends on the site than one who does not
"On average, a Facebook user who “likes” your content has more than double the number of friends than does a typical Facebook user. This could mean the user is more “social” or more influential, but on the other hand, it could mean the user is an attention-seeking narcissist. While it’s fatuous to read too much into that statistic, the number does show that the average “liker” is more active from a social-web standpoint.
An even more interesting stat about the likers is that they click on five times more links to external sites than the typical Facebook user. If clickthroughs are what you’re looking for from your social media strategy, this is good news."
An even more interesting stat about the likers is that they click on five times more links to external sites than the typical Facebook user. If clickthroughs are what you’re looking for from your social media strategy, this is good news."
Source: Data from the Facebook’s Developer Network Insights team, reported by Mashable, 29th September 2010
60% of eBook reader owners cite online connectivity as their favourite feature of the device
"60% of e-reader owners cite it as their favorite feature
49% of smartphone owners indicate high-speed internet as a motivating purchase factor
38% of all Blu-ray owners indicate internet connectivity is important or very important feature"
Source: The Connected Experience: Building a Bridge Between Devices & Content, NPD, September 2010
49% of smartphone owners indicate high-speed internet as a motivating purchase factor
38% of all Blu-ray owners indicate internet connectivity is important or very important feature"
Source: The Connected Experience: Building a Bridge Between Devices & Content, NPD, September 2010
Justin Beiber earns a minimum of $300,000 per show
"Justin Bieber earns a minimum of $300,000 per concert, placing him near the top of the summertime tour earnings list, contract records show.
The 16-year-old performer earns more per gig than established acts like Sheryl Crow ($146,500), Weezer ($150,000), and Bret Michaels ($64,000). Bieber, though, does not command as much as Rascal Flatts ($702,500), Kiss ($500,000), or Keith Urban ($487,500).
A review of dozens of concert contracts shows that Bieber outearns all of his young contemporaries, banking twice as much as Drake ($155,000), three times that of Disney star Selena Gomez ($100,000), and four times as much as “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks ($75,000).
Source: The Smoking Gun, 28th September 2010
The 16-year-old performer earns more per gig than established acts like Sheryl Crow ($146,500), Weezer ($150,000), and Bret Michaels ($64,000). Bieber, though, does not command as much as Rascal Flatts ($702,500), Kiss ($500,000), or Keith Urban ($487,500).
A review of dozens of concert contracts shows that Bieber outearns all of his young contemporaries, banking twice as much as Drake ($155,000), three times that of Disney star Selena Gomez ($100,000), and four times as much as “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks ($75,000).
Source: The Smoking Gun, 28th September 2010
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