Britons break £100m-a-week digital streaming milestone

Digital video continues to power entertainment growth with gaming spend slightly up

The streaming revolution has notched up another milestone with UK consumers spending more than 100m a week on digital entertainment services such as Netflix, Amazon, Spotify and Apple Music in the first half of the year for the first time.

UK consumers spent a total of 3.3bn on entertainment products in the first six months of the year, a 4.5% increase compared with a year earlier, as the popularity of subscription music and TV streaming services more than made up for the decline in sales of traditional CDs and DVDs.