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Screen Digest Acquires Adams Media Research Carmel, CA - 18 October, 2007: Screen Digest, Ltd., the London-based leader in global media intelligence, announced today that is has agreed to acquire Adams Media Research, the pre-eminent supplier of data and market analysis on the U.S. home entertainment market, for an undisclosed amount of cash and Screen Digest stock. The merger is expected to be finalized by the end of October. The merger sees the formalization of a successful working relationship that has existed for a number of years, giving clients of both companies access to unrivalled analyst expertise and industry data sources. The two companies already co-operate to provide the world’s most comprehensive home video online information service, Video Intelligence, and post-merger the company will offer clients the same premium quality research and analysis for other key industry sectors including TV, cinema, games, mobile, and broadband. “This is a hugely significant deal for both companies at a crucial time in the sector,” said Allan Hardy, Screen Digest’s managing director. “Media players across the world are experiencing changes of seismic proportions and we now offer more expertise, more data, and broader geographic coverage to assist them in running their businesses than anyone else.” AMR continues to operate out of its Carmel, CA offices, publishing the monthly Hollywood Aftermarket newsletter, and an expanding range of comprehensive management reports and accurate projection models of the type that established the company as a trusted source of U.S. media market intelligence. The company was established in 1993 by Tom Adams, who will continue as its president and join the board of directors of Screen Digest, Ltd. Allan Hardy and Ben Keen, Screen Digest’s chief analyst since 1997, will join Adams on the board of AMR. “We are delighted with this partnership,” said Tom Adams, president of AMR. “It will give our clients access to an enormous range of top quality research on key media markets outside of the US, and broaden the scope of our own research. We’ve worked with Screen Digest for a number of years sharing data and perspectives, so we are well aware of the significant benefits that our combined resources will offer our clients.” The combined company is developing several new research services. The first of those, Global Media Intelligence (GMI), is a new online service specifically for media-focused institutional investors, which covers TV, motion pictures, video games, mobile media, home entertainment and broadband media. Tracking more than 300 companies in 50 countries, GMI brings customizable insights and thought-leadership to the investment decision making process. The combined company counts among its clients every major film studio, leading networks and numerous media technology companies, along with major investment firms. With the acquisition of AMR, Screen Digest has a staff of more than 40 analysts worldwide covering media markets around the globe via Screen Digest’s continuously evolving advanced business information delivery platform.
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AMR Projects U.S. Online DVD Rental Will Reach $1.9 Billion In 2007 Carmel, CA - June 28, 2007 — U.S. video rental spending is well off its 2001 peak of $10.3 billion but revenue from online subscriptions is beginning to put some steam back into the rental engine, according to the new Online DVD Subscription: Reinventing Video Rental report from Adams Media Research. In that report AMR projects online subscription spending to increase by 41% to $1.9 billion in 2007. “The five-year decline in the video rental market will finally end in 2007,” said AMR Senior Analyst Eric Wiener, “due, in part, to an acceleration in the growth of online subscription rental fueled by consumer interest in Blockbuster's Total Access program.” “It's a rare 20-year-old business that gets a chance to reinvent itself the way video rental has through online subscription services,” said AMR president Tom Adams, “but the appeal to the consumer of unlimited rentals with no late fees is now clear.” Netflix rules the online subscription rental business with 75% of the market as of year-end 2006, but Blockbuster's Total Access program is coming on strong — adding 800,000 new subscribers in the first quarter of 2007, the first time it has exceeded Netflix's quarterly growth. The two leading services combined added a total of 1.3 million new subscribers in the first quarter. AMR projects online subscription spending to increase by 68% between 2007 and 2011, rising to $3.2 billion, or about 37.5% of the total video rental market. “Video rental is still the U.S. consumer’s favorite way to see movies, with 2.5 billion rented in 2006,” Adams noted, “and the online subscription model positions the overall rental business well for the coming showdown with electronic movie downloads from the Internet.”
About Online DVD Subscription: Reinventing Video Rental The report is available for immediate purchase and download via the company's web site at www.adamsmediaresearch.com. Journalists working on related stories may contact Laura Aguilera for quotes, additional data points, and charts and tables.
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AMR PC/TV Internet Video Forecast Tops $5.8 Billion By 2011 Carmel, CA - February 21, 2007 - By 2011, advertiser spending on Internet video streams to PCs and TVs will approach $1.7 billion, but movie and TV downloads will generate consumer spending of $4.1 billion, according to Adams Media Research’s new strategic analysis, Video on the Internet: Ad-Supported Streaming and Download-to-Own. “The Internet is going to revolutionize the business of video distribution,” said AMR president Tom Adams. “But in all the excitement about product launches by Wal-Mart, Amazon and Apple, people are getting giddy about how fast it will happen. We felt it was time to develop a rational set of projections, analyzing the ad-supported and download-to-own markets for both movies and TV shows in light of what the industry has learned in the past three decades of video distribution shifts.” AMR’s analysis points to a period of experimentation 2007-2009, during which the ad-supported model will predominate. But as significant numbers of homes connect their TVs to the Internet, consumer spending on downloaded movies and TV shows should expand rapidly and exceed ad spending substantially by 2011.
About Video On The Internet AMR'sVideo On The Internet and Internet Video (in Excel format) are available for immediate download—separately or as a discounted package—via the company's web site at www.adamsmediaresearch.com. Journalists working on related stories may contact Laura Aguilera for quotes, additional data points, and charts and tables.
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Worldwide Major Studio Film Revenue to
Reach
Carmel, CA - January 24, 2007 - DVD growth is slowing, but hi-definition discs and Internet distribution are set to drive new increases in worldwide film entertainment revenue over the next several years. Worldwide U.S. major studio feature film revenue will climb at a compound annual growth rate of 4.3%, from $35 billion to nearly $42 billion between 2006 and 2010, according to Adams Media Research's Film Entertainment Worldwide: The Impact of New Technologies. "The current hand-wringing about the future of the film business will prove as short- sighted as was writing off the prospects for future industry growth when cassette sales went flat in the mid-1990s," said AMR president Tom Adams, "Already, in 2006, a worldwide box-office revival drove an estimated 3.3% gain in overall U.S. studio revenue. Furthermore, when consumers get new ways to consume movies, they consume more movies and in 2006 two very cool new delivery technologies were deployed: high- definition discs and Internet downloads." AMR's conclusions in Film Entertainment Worldwide are based on an industry first: a quantification of total worldwide film revenue to U.S. major studios 1996-2010, accomplished with AMR's research partners at Screen Digest in London. "This exclusive database shows that international markets have grown tremendously in importance to studios in the DVD era," Adams said, "But by 2010, a greater percentage of studio revenue will come from the U.S. – 52.4% compared with 49.9% in 2006 – as U.S. consumers lead the charge into hi-def and Internet movie consumption.
About Film Entertainment
Worldwide Film Entertainment Worldwide is available for purchase via the company's web site at www.adamsmediaresearch.com. Journalists working on related stories may contact Laura Aguilera/a> for quotes, additional data points, and charts and tables.
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