What is the value created by TV formats for European broadcasters?

According to the TV Formats in Europe report (Madigan Cluff, Essential Television Statistics, Digital TV Research), overall value created by TV formats for European broadcasters in 2013 totaled $2.931 billion.

The UK is the TV formats leader in Europe. The value created by formats for UK broadcasters in 2013 is $600 million. The UK is followed by France with 2013 brought its channels $599 million for their formats - $52 million more than the previous year. French TF 1 leads the national rating list of channels with top TV formats created value in 2013. TF 1’s record is $331.5 million. Worth mentioning that British, French and German channels together generate 72% of the total value created by TOP-100 formats in Europe.

As for the distributors of the most “valuable” formats Endemol tops the list with its formats generating $589 million. Fremantle Media is the second - $439 million. ITV won the third place with $298 million. Shine International and BBC Worldwide are in the TOP-5 distributors whose formats created the most value to the European broadcasters. And the TOP-10 looks as follows:

TOTAL FORMATS CREATED VALUE IN 2013 (BY DISTRIBUTORS)

 

In terms of specific titles, ITV’s Come Dine With Me adaptations created the most value throughout Europe recording $205.6 million. ITV’s format is followed by two of Endemol - Money Drop and Deal or No Deal. At the same time All3Media’s Be My Guest added the most value in 2013, increasing from $11.1 million in 2012 to $60.2 million in 2013. Global Agency’s Shopping Monsters climbed from $17.4 in 2012 to $49.1 million in 2013.

* The value attributed to programming is the financial benefit sourced by activities such as advertising revenues or proportion of annual household license fee income that broadcasters receive from screening these formats.

Evidently, there is no doubt that TV formats create essential value for the broadcasters. Leading international format developers and distributors will present their latest products at Format Show and Ukrainian Content Market that will be held in the course of international forum KYIV MEDIA WEEK in September 2014.

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