BARB data shows dip in total UK SVOD households

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UK media measurement service BARB has released data which shows that the number of UK homes accessing an SVOD service slipped slightly in Q4 2022. Altogether, 19.42 million UK homes (67.7%) had access to such a service. This equates to a 0.6% decrease from 19.54 million in Q3 2022.

Drilling down, the performance varied across platforms, with Netflix and NOW both experiencing quarterly drops in UK homes. Netflix, the market leader, saw a 0.7% drop to 17.5m homes while Sky’s streaming service NOW slipped by 7.6% to 1.88m.

Amazon Prime Video, number two in the UK, achieved a slight increase of +0.1% from 13.11 million in Q3 2022 – and now stands at 13.12m. The big winners in percentage terms were Apple TV+, up 21% to 1.69 million, and Disney+, up 4.3% to 7.28m.

Netflix’s decline came despite the fact that it ended the year with strong performing titles including Wednesday and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.