Datamonitor's Global Media industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the media industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, demographic information, and descriptions of the leading companies.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and leading companies

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

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Market Definition

The media Industry consists of the advertising, broadcast & cable TV, publishing and movies & entertainment markets.

The advertising market consists of agencies providing advertising including display advertising services. The market value reflects income of the agencies from such services.

The broadcasting & cable TV market consists of all terrestrial, cable and satellite broadcasters of digital and analog television programming. The market is valued as the revenues generated by broadcasters through advertising, licensing (or public donations) and subscriptions.

The publishing market consists of books, newspaper and magazines. The market's value is calculated as the revenues generated by publishers from hard or electronic copies of their products, as well as from advertising within those products.

The movies & entertainment market includes both producers and distributors of public entertainment formats, such as movies, music and sports. The sports and movie box office sectors have been valued as the revenues received by box offices from total annual admissions.

The music and video sectors have been valued using the retail selling price (RSP) of items, such as DVD, VHS and CD.

Any currency conversions included in this report have been calculated using constant 2004 annual average exchange rates.

For the purposes of this report, Europe consists of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, UK, Sweden, Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Russia and Hungary.

Asia-Pacific comprises China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia and Taiwan.

The global market comprises Europe, Asia-Pacific, the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa.

TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7 1.1 Market Definition 7 1.2 Research Highlights 8 1.3 Market Analysis 8 CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9 CHAPTER 3 Market Segmentation I 10 CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation II 11 CHAPTER 5 Competitive Landscape 12 CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies 13 6.1 Sony Corporation 13 6.2 The Walt Disney Company 13 6.3 Viacom Inc. 13 6.4 Time Warner Inc. 14 6.5 Comcast Corporation 14 6.6 Vivendi Universal S.A. 14 6.7 The News Corporation Limited 15 CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 16 7.1 Market Value Forecast 16 CHAPTER 8 Further Reading 17 8.1 Sources 17 8.2 Related Datamonitor Research 17 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Global Media Industry Value: $ billion, 2001-2005 9 Table 2: Global Media Industry Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2005 10 Table 3: Global Media Industry Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2005 11 Table 4: Global Media Industry Value Forecast: $ billion, 2005-2010 16 ?? ?? ?? ?? CONTENTS