UK Amazon is accelerating Prime Video service thanks to sports. The group proved more popular than Netflix in the run-up to Christmas thanks to Premier League and International Rugby matches, which attracted half of new subscribers to live streaming services in the fourth quarter. 2020 according to Kantar.
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a significant increase in customer volumes, reaching record numbers. In the last three months of last year, there were 1.3 million registrations of services like Netflix, Disney + and Amazon Prime, with access to Prime Video and free shopping shipments.
Amazon took half the cake, attracting more than 635,000 customers, 49% of all new subscribers to its paid streaming services, including Sky’s Now TV, ITV’s BritBox, and the BBC.
Netflix ranks second by far, having acquired 17% of new subscribers, and making first shows that attracted audiences like the crown a Maneuvering mrsThis helped increase the chess game’s popularity and international orders at Rechapados Ferrer (La Garriga, Barcelona), responsible for the board used in the series.
Amazon’s strategy of introducing live sports proved to be the winner, with Netflix ruling out that battle, accompanied by films and series. In the period under study, it has broadcast twenty matches in the Premier League and the Fall Rugby Nations Cup.
“In the fourth quarter, 1.3 million British households got a new video broadcast subscription, and Amazon Prime Video took nearly half of it,” said Dominic Snibo, vice president of Kantar’s Worldpanel. “Amazon’s growing focus on live sports continues to yield significant gains,” he acknowledges.
The study also shows the impact of Disney + ‘arrival in March, which could attract 50% of all new subscribers to the UK in the first quarter. However, its growth has slowed significantly as the pandemic progressed, reaching third place in the last quarter with 15% of new arrivals.
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