http://www.screendigest.com/rss/ en-gb Copyright: (C) Screen Digest 240 US album sales rose for the first time since 2004 to reach 330.6m units in 2011 according to Nielsen Soundscan. Of these 31 per cent, or 103.1m units, were downloads and the remaining 69 per cent were...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/us_recorded_music_sales_up_year-on-year_bucking_the_long-term_decline_trend/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/us_recorded_music_sales_up_year-on-year_bucking_the_long-term_decline_trend/view.html 2012-01-09 Netflix capped off its rough year in public- and investor-relations by having to put a positive spin on the November 21 announcement that it would raise $400m in cash by selling shares and convertible bonds at...(subscription content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_12_netflix_raises_400m_says_profits_will_have_to_wait_until_2013/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_12_netflix_raises_400m_says_profits_will_have_to_wait_until_2013/view.html 2011-12-30 We have made a number of additions to the online TV and movie data for the USA, which can be summarised as follows:- subscription data now includes Netflix and Hulu- advertising within a subscription...(subscription content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_12_usa_online_movies_and_tv_data_upgrade/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_12_usa_online_movies_and_tv_data_upgrade/view.html 2011-12-19 Warner Home Video launched the first UltraViolet-enabled Blu-ray Disc (BD) titles in the US in October with a UK launch confirmed for 26 December and Canada next in line. Studios expect to expand the frequency of UltraViolet (UV) discs to the point that, by the holiday sales season of 2012, most major theatrical releases will come to these markets on UV-compliant discs. As a first step, the studios have clearly been smart in focusing on the initial delivery of UV rights via discs, on which US consumers will spend $9.2bn this year anyway, rather than via downloads, on which they will spend just $667m. Trying to maintain the value in the physical space is clearly a key short term strategic priority.(subscription content) http://www.screendigest.com/reports/20111116b/2011_12_first_ultraviolet_discs_hit_the_us_market/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/reports/20111116b/2011_12_first_ultraviolet_discs_hit_the_us_market/view.html 2011-12-16 While pay TV operators, networks and investors worry about the potential of cord-cutting, cord-shaving or cord-avoidance (various ways for consumers to limit their spending on pay TV subscriptions), the reality is that consumers are generally keeping their pay TV subscriptions and finding other areas to cut back their entertainment spending-mainly by cutting back on their purchasing of physical discs. The digitization of both networks and physical media since the early 1990s, created a video entertainment business that generated more than $100bn ($101bn to be exact) for the first time in 2010. But growth has slowed markedly in recent years, as a flattening picture for transactional spending post 2004, went negative in 2008-2010.(subscription content) http://www.screendigest.com/reports/20111114a/2011_12_the_big_picture_on_video_entertainment_spending/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/reports/20111114a/2011_12_the_big_picture_on_video_entertainment_spending/view.html 2011-12-14 A flurry of recent activity from leading on-demand music services in Europe and North America has seen companies such as Spotify, Deezer and MOG sign new partnerships with mobile network operators and...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_11_on-demand_music_services_expand_sign_partnerships/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_11_on-demand_music_services_expand_sign_partnerships/view.html 2011-11-21 After several months of unsuccessful attempts to sell EMI Music, Citygroup has split the business into recording and publishing arms to be sold separately. Universal Music Group (a division of Vivendi SA) has...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_11_emi_split_into_two_sold_to_umg_and_sony/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_11_emi_split_into_two_sold_to_umg_and_sony/view.html 2011-11-12 Charter Communications, the fourth largest U.S. cable operator, has announced plans to launch an integrated search on Charter.net that will provide search results for content available on Netflix, Amazon...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_11_charternet_plans_to_offer_video_search_engine_for_top_content/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2011_11_charternet_plans_to_offer_video_search_engine_for_top_content/view.html 2011-11-10