Notes on the method

This document reports the data of a market analysis conducted by e-Media Srl and directed by Emilio Pucci between December 2020 and September 2021 on behalf of APA (Audiovisual Producers Association). It is the third edition of the same study already conducted by e-Media for APA in 2018 and 2019. 

e-Media Srl has conducted field surveys and directly consulted numerous market players, documentation and databases in order to analyze the entire audiovisual production sector also on a quantitative level (wealth volume). 

By force of circumstances, not all figures ​​can be extracted from the companies’ financial statements which report the revenues and production value of individual companies but not specific data referring to the budgets for different genres. 

e-Media, with the support of APA, administered questionnaires to the executives of audiovisual production companies and conducted numerous interviews with them and with the investment executives of the commissioning operators (linear TV and SVoD operators) requesting audiovisual content.

In consulting this document, it is important to bear in mind that many of the data reported are the result of estimates, even provisional, produced in the absence of information processed and/or published by official sources. e-media 

e-Media has carried out numerous checks on the data reported but cannot offer any guarantee on their accuracy and reliability. Under no circumstances should those who consult this document make strategic or trading decisions, even if partly, based on the data reported which are to be considered estimates only and thus require further analysis and assessments.

Value of the domestic tv fiction and VOD production, and forecast to 2023
Million €

Source: eMedia for APA