Digital entertainment and retail association ERA has created a new Future Leaders Programme to celebrate new executive talent in digital entertainment companies and retailers. The objective is to incubate fast-rising young executives, provide networking and mentoring opportunities and to ensure new voices are heard in the fast-changing digital entertainment and retail landscape. The programme was […]
Streaming services and the retail-led vinyl revival pushed UK music consumption and recorded music revenues in 2024 to a 20-year high and an all-time record, exceeding the pinnacle of the CD era, according to annual figures released by digital entertainment and retail association ERA. Consumption reached the equivalent of 201.4 million albums a year. Streaming […]
The value of the UK music, video and games markets increased for the eleventh successive year in 2023, rising 7 per cent to another all-time record of £11.9 billion (€13.8bn), according to preliminary figures released by digital entertainment and retail association ERA. It means the entertainment market has grown by just over 50 per cent […]
Perifery, a division of DataCore, has partnered with ERA, an independent provider of IT workflow solutions, to offer a fully managed cloud service for ERA customers and users in the media and entertainment (M&E) industry. Using Perifery’s media-focused Object Matrix platform on ERA infrastructure provides companies with the highest levels of data protection and simple, […]
The Official Charts Company, a joint venture between a range of UK entertainment industry bodies responsible for the commissioning, marketing, distribution and management of industry standard video and music charts and industry sales data, is launching a new weekly digital video data service, as part of a programme of service enhancements to run through 2023. […]
Mirroring similar findings from the British Association for Screen Entertainment, the value of the UK home entertainment market soared to £11.1 billion (€10.3bn) in 2022, an all-time record for music, video and games sales, according to preliminary figures from digital entertainment and retail association ERA. The total was 6.9 per cent up on 2021 and […]