Comcast reported its fourth-quarter 2021 earnings, beating Wall Street’s expectations on both revenue and earnings. NBCUniversal revenue was US$9.3 billion, up 25.6% from Q4 2020, and studio sales were up more than 36%.
In the last week of December 2021, audiences streamed 183 billion minutes, which even eclipsed the amount of time they spent streaming at the weekly height of Covid-driven lockdowns in early 2020 (166 billion minutes), Nielsen revealed.
Cumulated revenues of the pure SVOD players among the top 100 audiovisual companies in Europe quadrupled between 2016 and 2020, comprising 7% of cumulated revenues for the top 100 at the end of 2020, the European Audiovisual Observatory revealed.
There were 559 scripted original series for adults last year, up 13% from a decline in 2020, according to research performed by Disney General Entertainment and FX.