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Our team of expert analysts are regularly asked to provide comment for industry, trade and national press. You can view some of our recent features below. For all media enquires, including access to a past press release, please email comms@ampereanalysis.com

17.02.2025   Press Release  

Streamers will spend $12.5bn on sports rights in 2025

13.02.2025   Press Release  

Western Europe leads growth in Crime & Thriller content

04.02.2025   Press Release  

Streamers to lead global content spend in 2025, surpassing commercial broadcasters for first time

29.01.2025   Press Release  

Microsoft is Holiday Season’s top games publisher across PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam

Articles Featuring Ampere Data

16.02.2025  Variety

Guy Bisson's presentation at European Film Market in Berlin looking at the state of the TV industry post peak-TV is covered here. Read more in Variety.

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04.02.2025  Deadline

Streamers will spend more on content globally than commercial broadcasters for the first time this year, Ampere’s content spend forecasts predict. Read more in Deadline.

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04.02.2025  Variety

Ampere global content spend data, showing that streamers spend will overtake commercial broadcasters in 2025, referenced in this article. Read more in Variety.

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03.02.2025  StreamTVInsider

According to the latest Ampere forecasts US streamers will make $17bn in ad revenue in 2025, as rapid sign-up for ad tiers continues to boost the market. Read more in StreamTVInsi…

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30.01.2025  Business Insider

The global content industry is now navigating ‘75% peak TV’ as Ampere data shows that production volumes for first-run scripted TV in 2024 settled down at the same levels seen dur…

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28.01.2025  Cineuropa

The entertainment industry has recovered to reach a “steady- state” of sorts, following the a sharp decline in commissioning activity throughout 2023, according to Ampere’s Guy Bi…

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21.01.2025  Variety

Read about the key trends in content in Variety’s coverage of Ampere’s presentation at Content Americas.

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12.01.2025  The Guardian

Subscription TV fragmentation in the UK has not been good for sports fans as the cost to watch the 15 most popular soccer leagues and tournaments has risen by 60% in the past five…

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29.12.2024  The Guardian

Rory Gooderick quoted in this article looking at the TV streaming advertising market. Read more in The Guardian.

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10.12.2024  Worldscreen

Ampere data on streaming subscriptions in the US referenced in this article. Read more in Worldscreen.

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02.12.2024  Australian Financial Review

Ampere data on the growth of unscripted commissions included in this article looking at broadcaster strategies on reality TV. Read more in The Australian Financial Review.

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29.10.2024  The Wrap

Despite market challenges in recent years, the collective content spend from Disney, Comcast, Google, Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix and Paramount has grown since the pandemic, r…

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29.10.2024  Variety

Ampere’s latest intelligence shows that spending across these groups will reach a new high in 2024 and account for 51% of the total content spend landscape, up from 47% in 2020. R…

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29.10.2024  Deadline

The top six global content providers will account for over half of all content spend in 2024, according to new Ampere research. Read more in Deadline.

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16.10.2024  C21 Media

As Ampere’s Guy Bisson told MIA delegates in Rome this week, the days of Peak TV might be over but there are new opportunities emerging – including content licensing, Scripted Cri…

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11.10.2024  SportsPro Media

The NBA is the latest US sports property to secure a huge uplift in the value of its domestic broadcast contract. Ampere’s Jack Genovese, analyses the data behind these significan…

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08.10.2024  ScreenDaily

The growing free streaming market could be a gold mine for indie film makers. Using Ampere data to size the market, this article takes a look at the opportunities the growing sect…

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01.10.2024  The Wrap

FAST channels are increasingly important as a ‘bridge’ between free TV and streaming as advertising takes centre stage in the future of streaming income growth. This article looks…

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25.09.2024  The Wall Street Journal

This article draws on Ampere data to look at how Greys Anatomy show runners have kept it up for so long and how writers work in teams to keep the storylines flowing. Read more in …

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16.09.2024  KidScreen

Ampere commissioning data referenced in this article on the rise of prank shows. Read more in Kidscreen.

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10.09.2024  The Washington Post

Ampere’s Sports Media Rights data, forecasting that ESPN could be paying the NBA more than $10bn annually when it renews its deal in 2025,were included in an article on ESPN's str…

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10.09.2024  Video Games Chronicle

Ampere’s Research Director Piers Harding-Rolls quoted and included our forecast that sales of the new PS5 Pro sales will reach a similar level to those of the PS4 Pro, despite the…

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04.09.2024  Worldscreen

Recent Ampere research finding that Netflix's new seasons boost viewing for older seasons by 86% was covered in this article. Read more in World Screen.

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04.09.2024  GamesIndustry.biz

This article looks at Sony’s decision this week to pull its shoot ’em up game Concord from gaming platforms and speaks to games lead Piers Harding Rolls, pressing him on the quest…

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01.09.2024  The Wall Street Journal

Netflix (and other streamers) continues to make more and more unscripted content with this article drawing on Ampere Commissioning data to analyze the trend and look at how dubbin…

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01.09.2024  Advanced Television

Key US women’s sports still have huge upside potential in rights values, according to an Ampere report published this week. By comparing fan and engagement levels between men’s an…

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28.08.2024  C21 Media

Ampere's latest research showing that the number of sports documentaries released by leading commissioners reached a new peak in the run-up to the Paris Olympic Games was covered …

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20.08.2024  Los Angeles Times

Ampere was featured in a (paywalled) article looking at the rise of lay-offs in the industry, and how this is a result of a “reset” of the TV business amid the after-effects of th…

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19.08.2024  Adweek

Ampere sponsorship data analyzing sources of income for the Olympics was featured in this article. Read more in AdWeek.

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16.08.2024  SportsPro Media

Ampere Research Manager Dan Harraghy published a (paywalled) article where he looks at how The Premier League’s growing ability to drive broadcast revenue growth internationally. …

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09.08.2024  The Wall Street Journal

Ampere Sponsorship revenue data quoted in this article looking at the impact of Olympians becoming viral sensations, and how that attracts brand deals. Read more in The Wall Stree…

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08.08.2024  The Guardian

Richard Broughton quoted in this article looking at the fall of traditional TV after Warner Bros Discovery announced a decline in the value of its TV networks.

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30.07.2024  The Drum

Ampere's Minal Modha is quoted in an article looking at the way in which live coverage of the Paris Summer Olympics is split between the BBC and Eurosport. Read more in The Drum.

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25.07.2024  The Washington Post

Ampere Markets Operators and Sports Media Rights data is cited in an article about Amazon's growing investment in sports rights. Read more in The Washington Post.

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25.07.2024  The Economist

Ampere Sports Media Rights data is quoted in an article analysing the changing nature of sports fandom and its impact on the sports TV business. Read more in The Economist.

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09.07.2024  The Hollywood Reporter

Ampere’s recent report found that two in five US consumers report that they 'regularly subscribe, cancel and resubscribe' to SVoD services. Read more in The Hollywood Reporter.

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03.07.2024  Variety

Ampere’s Guy Bisson is quoted in this article looking at the recent series production alliance between Onza Americas and BH5 Studios, the article also included exclusive Ampere da…

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02.07.2024  Forbes

Ampere's recent research highlighting the resurgence in original production by Netflix and Amazon was covered in this article. Read more in Forbes.

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01.07.2024  Deadline

Ampere's recent press release on Netflix and Amazon's streaming originals was covered in this article. Read more in Deadline.

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01.07.2024  The New York Times

Ampere's recent press release on Netflix and Amazon's streaming originals, authored by analysts Alice Thorpe, Marianna Enriquez Denton Bustinza and Zuzana Henkova, was featured in…

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10.05.2024  The Wall Street Journal

Ampere data on stand up comedy commissions included in this article looking at Netflix's increased commitment to Stand-up specials. Read more in The Wall Street Journal.

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07.05.2024  Financial Times

Ampere spend and commissioning data was featured in this (paywalled) article looking at the likely sale of Paramount. Read more in The Financial Times.

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07.05.2024  KidScreen

Ampere's research on the growing popularity of content adapted from video games referenced in this article. Read more in Kidscreen.

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18.04.2024  The Economist

Principal Analyst Fred Black quoted in this article looking at he rise in video game adaptations. Read more in The Economist.

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15.04.2024  Deadline

Ampere’s latest consumer survey shows that streaming platforms that held rights to the NFL saw a significant boost to monthly active viewing in the first quarter 2024, far greater…

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09.04.2024  Tortoise Media

Ampere data on the fall of scripted commissions quoted in this article following the final episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which looks at the fall in sitcoms. Read more in Tortoi…

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31.03.2024  Business Insider

Ampere data looking at video game adaptations quoted in this article on the increase in video games that were adapted to movies. Read more in Business Insider.

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30.03.2024  The Wall Street Journal

Ampere data on the increase of movie adaptations from video games quoted in this article. Read more in The Wall Street Journal.

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25.03.2024  Deadline

Ampere's latest press release showing that despite a commissioning downturn in the UK, the BBC's scripted commissions remained stable, covered in this article. Read more in Deadli…

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25.03.2024  The Hollywood Reporter

Zuzana Henkova's latest report looking at UK commissioning downturn in 2023 covered in this article. Read more in The Hollywood Reporter.

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