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Netflix, Spotify and Apple power UK entertainment revenue to record £6.1bn

• UK revenue from music, TV shows, films and video games hit an all-time high of £6.1bn in 2015 thanks to the booming popularity of digital services offered by players including Netflix, Amazon, Spotify and Apple.

• A surge in digital spending combined with the mega-selling new album by Adele hauled the total UK music market to its first growth in at least a decade, up 3.5% to £1.06bn. The UK music industry saw the number of streams almost double to 27m and physical sales, while flat, were greater than they have been for a decade.

• The digital boost countered a 15% fall in sales of DVD and Blu-ray on the high street to £1.07bn and a 28% decline in the physical rental market to £76.9m, as the overall video market crept up by 1.5% to £2.24bn.

This is an essay talking about how developments in new and digital media has powered out the entertainment industry, it has now made a record £6.1bn . I think that over the years this will increase to grow more and more. 

Google, Facebook and Twitter among internet giants attacking 'snooper's charter'

• Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo criticised plans to force firms to help security services hack into devices as “very dangerous” and called for several changes to the draft legislation.

• They stated that “as a general rule” users should be informed when the Government seeks access to data. They also criticised “opaque” aspects of the Bill and claimed that allowing warrants on overseas companies to be served on British-based offices “presents a risk to UK employees”.

YouTube boss: 'Aim to be the next PewDiePie, not the next Tom Cruise'

• YouTube’s PR rep assured me there would be no news at their chief business officer Robert Kyncl’s keynote talk at tech’s largest consumer showcase this week.

• Internet video has become so important, and Kyncl’s role so influential, conference attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show formed a line through the casino. Four hundred hours of video are shared on YouTube every single minute. More than a billion people watch something on the site every month. And if those stats weren't enough, Kyncl added that 600,000 people cut their cable subscriptions last quarter, a sobering new record for the industry.

this is an article talking about how the CEO of YouTube believes that you should aim to be the next big thing on YouTube rather than becoming an actor. YouTube has become the most popular broadcasting website over the years.

Netflix: from DVD rentals to the verge of world domination

• When Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings took to the stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday to announce the streaming service’s expansion into a further 130 countries, he told the audience they were “witnessing the birth of a global TV network”.

• It was a grand statement for a company that started out as a US mail-order DVD rental business, but one it has backed by attracting about 74 million subscribers around the world and making huge investments in TV programming.

This is an article which talks about how netflix has dominated the DVD rental industry and how developments in new and digital media has changed over the years.