Christmas NDM story number 4

UK entertainment spending rises with surge in film and music streaming:

. Value of film and TV downloads, streams and subscriptions rises to £621m, and number of tracks streamed doubles to 7.4bn
.
. Skyfall was the biggest-selling DVD in the UK in 2013, shifting 2.96m copies.
. After five years of decline, sales of entertainment products such as music, films and video games were growing again last year because of booming digital services such as Netflix and Spotify
. The surge in popularity of watching TV and films on the likes of Netflix, Amazon's LoveFilm and Apple's iTunes fuelled a 40% increase in spending on digital videos with downloads, streams and subscriptions rising to £621m
. The digital revolution was also felt in the UK music industry where the number of tracks streamed doubled to 7.4bn, thanks to a rise in users of services such as Spotify and Deezer, which have almost halted a 10-year decline in music sales.
. The shift to digital viewing more than offset a 6.8% fall in the sale of physical DVDs to £1.4bn, reversing a five-year decline in total video sales, which managed 3.7% growth to £2.06bn last year
. "Services like Netflix, LoveFilm and Blinkbox are transforming the video business by making content available over multiple devices," said Kim Bayley
. "They are responding to the way people are now consuming content on the move."
. The biggest-selling DVD in the UK last year was Skyfall, which shifted 2.96m copies,

My Opinion :

Less people are going to the store to buy the CD'S and DVD's , but are starting to download off the internet. Traditional media is dying.