Broadband Entertainment Content draws is the first comprehensive study of the content offerings of Internet service providers in fifteen western European countries.The report addresses the following key questions: * What are the major content genres? Music downloads and live feeds; Films; Television programmes and live channels; Online multiplayer and on-demand gaming.
* What are the different approaches to pricing and packaging? Subscription bundles; Pay-per-view; Pay-per-play; Pay-per-use; Open portals and walled gardens.
* Which third party content distributors do Europe's leading ISPs work with?Key data points * Corporate background of over 60 ISPs: T-Online, Wanadoo, Telefonica, Tiscali, AOL, etc.
* Historical subscriber figures for ISPs and network providers in each territory * Consumer expenditure on broadband content forecast up to 2007 * Expenditure breakdown by content genre, current estimates and forecast to 2007Key Findings * Most Internet service providers are keen to become "aggregators" of entertainment services, providing secure access and payment for services which they are happy to contract out to independent operators.
* In 2003 music has proved to be the pioneer genre, with the introduction of download services by many leading ISPs.
Roll out is continuing in 2004 followed by that of games and video on demand.
* The UK, Germany and France will be the biggest markets with about €350 million each in consumer expenditure on broadband content in 2007.