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Coronavirus lockdown produced a boom in subscriptions to video, music and games services

16/08/2020

The coronavirus lockdown produced a boom in subscriptions to video, music and games services according a guide from the Entertainment Retailers’ Association (ERA) about how the UK entertained itself in the first half of 2020. The data comes from ERA’s tracking study which has measured the entertainment choices of a representative panel of up to 2,000 consumers each quarter for the past seven years. The latest 28th wave of the research commenced on 25th May 2020, […]

Radio listening declined in UK during pandemic

06/08/2020

Radio listening declined in UK during pandemic because of lockdown according to Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator. In Ofcom’s third annual Media Nations research report it reviews trends in the TV and online video sectors as well as radio and other audio sectors. Radio listening key findings Radio listening was broadly resilient during lockdown, but the sector will need to weather the advertising market downturn exacerbated by COVID-19. • 14% of online adults stopped listening […]

Children in UK mainly listen to music on their phone

07/07/2020

Children in UK mainly listen to music on their phone and typically through platforms like Spotify and YouTube according to a study by YouGov. The study of 8 to 15-year-old children showed that most listen to music (84%), and on average they spend eight hours and 22 minutes doing so per week. Most commonly children listen to music on their phone (63%), on the radio (36%) or on a tablet (29%). Physical formats are much […]

UK commercial analogue radio to get 10 year extension

05/07/2020

UK commercial analogue radio to get 10 year extension to their licences when they start to expire in early 2022 according to new government plans. Media Minister John Whittingdale set out how commercial radio will be licensed over the next decade so that listeners to popular radio stations such as Classic FM and TalkSport can continue to enjoy their stations of choice for another ten years. Nearly 60% of all radio listening is now via […]

Specialist Jazz streamer jazzed's introductory offer

Specialist Jazz streamer launched in UK

21/05/2020

UPDATE: 21/05/2020 – jazzed launched successfully in February and is now offering its jazzed+ service for an introductory offer of £0.99/month for 3 months. After your 3 month introductory offer your subscription will continue at £5.99/month. ∼ Jazzed is a specialist Jazz streamer set to launch in UK on the 12th February with a Free and jazzed+ paid for service. According to the streamer jazzed is ‘more than a music streaming service. it’s a virtual […]

Over 55s are UK’s fastest growing group of music streamers

06/05/2020

Over 55s are UK’s fastest growing group of music streamers with 90% of new over 55 streamers taking out paid subscriptions, according to new pane research conducted by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). More than 1.1m over-55 year olds turned to streaming services over the past year. Over-55 year olds are the fastest growing group of new users of subscription music streaming services like Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, Deezer and You Tube Music Premium. The […]

Rap and Hip Hop reach new highs in 2019

21/04/2020

Rap and Hip Hop reach new highs in 2019 achieving record shares for both singles and albums according to Official Charts Company data released by the BPI. The analysis compiled from both purchases and streams show that singles of Rap and Hip Hop comprised well over a fifth (21.5%) of all consumption, up from 20.9% in 2018. In the five years from 2015 to 2019, UK artists’ share of Rap’s sales and streams increased from […]