Companies in the audiovisual sector

The research includes all companies that supply audiovisual content and that in 2016 and/or 2017 produced at least one title that was distributed in movie theaters, on television or on the Internet. Many of these companies have had access to tax credits for motion pictures and/or audiovisual products.

Among the companies analyzed, some also operate in other fields of the same audiovisual supply chain (executive production, technical services, distribution, etc.). For this reason the companies’ production value (revenues from sales and services, other revenues and income, changes in work in progress etc.) do not refer exclusively to audiovisual production activities.

The survey examined 330 companies, selecting 255, for a total production value of € 1,271 million.

Number of companies and production value* 2017
(%)

Source: business balance sheets elaborated by e-Media
(*) It should be noted that for some companies with a turnover volume lower than € 10 million it wasn’t possible to retrieve the corporate balance for year 2017 (research carried out in December 2018). The calculation can therefore present a margin of error, estimated to be less than 2%, especially for companies included in the two lower segments of the graph.