Datamonitor's Media in Europe 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, newspapers, 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 2005 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report, Europe is deemed to consist of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific consists of Australia, China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea and Taiwan.

The Americas consists of the US, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.

The global industry consists of Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
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 RTL Group SA 13
6.2 British Sky Broadcasting Group plc 13
6.3 Vivendi 13
6.4 Reed Elsevier NV 13
6.5 News Corporation Limited, The 14
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 15
7.1 Market Value Forecast 15
CHAPTER 8 Macroeconomic Indicators 16
CHAPTER 9 Further Reading 17
9.1 Sources 17
9.2 Related Datamonitor Research 17

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Europe Media Industry Value: $ billion, 2002-2006 9
Table 2: Europe Media Industry Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2006 10
Table 3: Europe Media Industry Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2006 11
Table 4: Europe Media Industry Value Forecast: $ billion, 2006-2011 15
Table 5: Europe Exchange Rate, 2002-2006 16