Friends remains the most watched SVOD title in the UK as it emerged that half of British homes now take a streaming service. The classic sitcom topped the list for the first quarter of 2019, accord…
revealed that nearly half of British homes now subscribe to at least one SVOD service. Some 13.3M, which is 47% of TV households, take either Netflix, Amazon or Now TV, up from 11.2M last year.
In Q1 2019, Netflix had 11.5M UK subscriptions, Amazon Prime Video had 6M subscriptions and Now TV had 1.6M subscriptions. Yih-Choung Teh, Strategy and Research Group Director at Ofcom, said, “The way we watch TV is changing faster than ever before. In the space of seven years, streaming services have grown from nothing to reach nearly half of British homes. But traditional broadcasters still have a vital role to play, producing the kind of brilliant UK programmes that overseas tech giants struggle to match.
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