INSIGHTS - OCTOBER 2024

UK Entertainment Industry

UK Entertainment Industry Information

The film and television industry includes film, TV and theatre production, film editing, cutting, dubbing, movie distribution and projection, buying and selling of movie rights, sound recording, promoting and distributing of music.

Active Businesses

58,653

Annual Sales

£65bn +

Employees

198,399

Economic Contribution 

£14bn

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Location of Entertainment Companies

Entertainment Companies by Size

84% Micro

13% Small

2% Mid

1% Large

0% Mega

Entertainment Companies by Age

31% Young

28% Established

28% Startup

10% Mature

3% New

Fastest Growing Entertainment Companies

36% Declining

22% Rapid

19% Healthy

15% High

8% Low

Entertainment Industry Competitive Environment - New Entrants vs Leavers

Entertainment Industry Valuation

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Entertainment Industry Valuation

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Entertainment Industry Valuation

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Note - from March 2020 multiples are calculated monthly, prior to this they were calculated on an annual basis.
UK Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities Industry Insights

There are 58,653 active Businesses in the UK with combined annual sales of £65 billion .

The Industry employs around 198,399 people and contributes £14 billion to the economy.

The most popular location for Entertainment companies is London with 25,768 and the fewest are located in North East England with 633.

The largest Entertainment company is Sky Uk Limited with a turnover of £10.2bn. 84% of the industry is comprised of Micro companies with only 2% Mid companies.

10% of the Entertainment Industry is made up of 10% Mature but the majority are Young businesses (31%) the oldest company is Parlophone Records Limited founded in 1900.

Entertainment industry has a number of high growth companies (15%), the fastest growing company is Sister Pictures (Power Rights) Limited with a 3 year growth rate of 414%. Other fast growing companies include Sp Film Productions Limited (277%), Apple Studios Uk Limited (224%) and Arcadia Pictures Limited (201%).

The UK Entertainment Industry’s valuation has been improving over the past 3 years with a current EBITDA multiple of 6.31x, Turnover multiple of 1.34x and a Net Asset multiple of 1.62x.