The UK home entertainment sector grew 10% year-on-year in 2025 to £5.7bn; contributing to a 5.4% increase in the total value of the UK screen industry, to £13.3bn.
Both figures are record totals, with growth also recorded across all measured sectors, according to figures released today by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE).
Scroll down for the top five titles in each format
The £5.7bn UK home entertainment market value includes streaming, buying and renting films and TV shows.
The entire UK media and entertainment market was valued at £34bn for 2025, up 8% year-on-year.
Wicked was the top title across all transactional formats combined; and individually the top title for electronic sell-through (EST) and Blu-ray and DVD combined.
Streaming services continued to dominate home entertainment consumption, with 20.3m UK households subscribed to at least one service – up almost 500,000 on 2024.
Netflix led the UK market with 17.6m subscriptions, followed by Amazon Prime Video with 13.6m and Disney+ with 7.5m.
Discovery grew its UK subscriber numbers to 3.2m, with Apple TV up to 2.8m and Now to 2m.
Ad-supported streaming models also saw growth, with 23m such subscriptions in the UK by Q3 of last year, and 53% of all SVoD subscriptions now ad-supported.
58% of UK adults now pay for at least one streaming service with ads, despite 55% of consumers reporting that they dislike ads.
The theatrical-to-premium release window average came in at 44 days, 10% longer than 2024’s 40-day window. An average additional 40-day window follows to standard EST, one day less than 2024.
EST grew 7.4% in value in 2025, with digital rentals up 1.7%. The combined digital sales market rose 3.5% to a £382m value; while the combined UK transactional market (physical and digital) rose 1% to hit £531m.
This ran alongside a slight growth in UK-Ireland cinema box office, by 1% to £1.1bn.
Universal Pictures came out top among theatrical and home entertainment distributors in the UK last year with a 17.8% home ent market share, followed by Warner Home Video with 17%.
Digital transactional formats are forecast to grow a further 3.6% this year, with EST films up 7%.
“2025 was a landmark year for UK and International Home Entertainment, and the global entertainment industry stands united behind creativity and commercial innovation,” said Liz Bales, CEO of BASE and Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI). “With stable market conditions, revenues across cinema, physical, and digital platforms will continue to grow confirming that consumers value choice, and that diversified release strategies deliver consistent, sustainable growth.”
NBCUniversal Internal Analysis reports that global home entertainment is now valued at $349bn worldwide, with international markets accounting for 60% of total video revenue, including fast growth from India, Poland, the Netherlands and parts of Asia-Pacific.
The global media and entertainment industry has also increased in value, up seven percent year-on-year to $1.1tn.
The BASE predictions report that the global box office will increase five percent in 2026, to $35bn.
Top five charts
Data provided by the Official Charts Company
All digital retail; Blu-ray and DVD, EST
1. Wicked
2. A Minecraft Movie
3. Gladiator II
4. Bridget Jones – Mad About The Boy
5. Jurassic World – Rebirth
EST
1. Wicked
2. A Minecraft Movie
3. Bridget Jones – Mad About The Boy
4. Gladiator II
5. Jurassic World – Rebirth
VOD
1. Conclave
2. Gladiator II
3. Bridget Jones – Mad About The Boy
4. Wicked
5. Jurassic World – Rebirth
All Blu-ray & DVD
1. Wicked
2. Gladiator II
3. Jurassic World – Rebirth
4. Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning
5. Paddington In Peru
Blu-ray
1. Superman
2. Wicked
3. Gladiator II
4. Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning
5. Nosferatu
DVD
1. Wicked
2. Gladiator II
3. Downton Abbey – The Grand Finale
4. Paddington In Peru
5. Jurassic World – Rebirth
TV on video
1. House of the Dragon – Season 2
2. Doctor Who – The Savages
3. The Penguin
4. Fallout – Season 1
5. The Last Of Us – Season 2
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