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Barb reports 20.1 million UK homes used at least one SVOD service in Q1 2025, with Netflix leading at 59.2% penetration. Paramount+ posted the strongest quarterly growth, up 16% to 3.1 million homes, while Amazon Prime Video saw 87% of its 13.4 million homes on its ad-supported tier.

According to Nielsen, broadcast and cable accounted for 57.6% of ad-supported viewing in 2025, compared to 42.4% for streaming. The report also notes that seven different streaming platforms ranked among the year’s top-performing assets.

Denmark added over 500,000 new streaming subscriptions in the past year, driven by a nearly 50% surge in ad-supported services. More than 25% of households now use at least one HVOD platform, reshaping market dynamics.

Nearly 100 million U.S. subscriptions now include ads, with 75% of streaming users having tried an ad-supported plan. Ad tiers accounted for 71% of net adds across Premium SVODs over the past nine quarters.

Over 3.7 million new streaming subscriptions were added in the Nordics over the past year, pushing the total past 23 million. Sweden alone accounted for more than 2 million of those, with ad-supported models driving over half of the regional growth.