Video on demand/Broadcast/Physical home video market user analysis report (Surveyed in November 2024)

As a white paper on consumer usage awareness and behavior in the video home entertainment market, this report provides a comprehensive analysis of the video on demand (VOD)/broadcast/Physical home video market. This annual report enables you to grasp how the market as a whole has changed over the past year, including the utilization status and brand penetration of each service, and how the market is moving.

Analysis Examples

Analyzing different types of contract and type of media by cross-categorizing them.

The report takes a broad view of the market by combining the type of contract (Subscription, Rental, Purchase, and Free service) and type of media (Video on demand, Broadcast, and Physical home video) .

  Type of contract
  Subscription Rental Purchase Free services
Type of media Video on demand
(VOD)
SVOD*1 TVOD*2 EST*3 AdVOD*4
Broadcast Pay TV Free broadcast channels
Terrestrial/BS
Physical home video Subscription for DVD・BD DVD・BD
rental
DVD・BD purchase
*1: SVOD:Subscription VOD, *2: TVOD:Transactional VOD, *3: EST:Electric Sell Through, *4: AdVOD:Advertising VOD

Wide coverage of the entire video home entertainment market

  Type of contract
  Subscription Rental Purchase Free services
Type of media Video on demand(VOD) SVOD TVOD EST AdVOD
  • ABEMA Premium
  • Prime Video(Amazon Prime Video) ※4
  • Apple TV+
  • DAZN
  • DMM TV
  • d Anime Store
  • FOD(FOD Premium)
  • Hulu
  • J:COM STREAM
  • Lemino
  • Netflix
  • NHK On Demand
  • Rakuten TV
  • SPOOX
  • SPOTV NOW
  • TELASA
  • TSUBURAYA IMAGINATION(New)
  • U-NEXT
  • WOWOW On Demand
  • YouTube Premium
  • Anime Hodai
  • Disney +
  • TV Tokyo Business On Demand
  • TV Asahi Douga
  • Bandai Channel
  • Hikari TV Video Service
  • Video Market
  • Toei tokusatsu fan club(New)
  • Prime Video(Amazon Prime Video) ※4
  • DMM TV
  • FOD
  • Hulu Store
  • iTunes Store
  • J:COM STREAM
  • Lemino
  • NHK On Demand
  • Rakuten TV
  • SPOOX
  • TELASA
  • U-NEXT
  • YouTube
  • Crank-In Video
  • TV Asahi Douga
  • Niconico Channel
  • Bandai Channel
  • Hikari TV Video Service
  • Video Market
  • Prime Video(Amazon Prime Video) ※4
  • DMM TV
  • iTunes Store
  • Rakuten TV
  • U-NEXT
  • Niconico Channel
  • Hikari TV Video Service
  • YouTube
  • J:COM STREAM
  • Lemino
  • ABEMA
  • TVer
  • YouTube
  • Niconico Douga
  • TikTok
  • Nittere Free
  • TV Asahi Douga
  • TBS FREE
  • Net mo TV Tokyo
  • FOD Free
  • Lemino
Broadcast Pay TV Free broadcast channels
  • BS Animax
  • BS Nihon Eiga Senmon Channel
  • J:COM
  • NHK BS1
  • NHK BS Premium
  • WOWOW
  • iTSCOM
  • WOWOW Plus
  • SKY Perfec TV
  • Star Channel
  • Disney Channel
Terrestrial
(no data for individual services)
BS
  • BS11
  • BS-TBS
  • BS TV TOKYO
  • BS Fuji
  • BS Asahi
  • BS Nittere
  • TwellV
  • BS Shochiku-Tokyu
  • BS Yoshimoto
  • BS Japanext
  • (no data for individual services)
Physical home video Subscription for DVD・BD DVD・BD rental DVD・BD purchase
  • DMM.com DVD Rental
  • TSUTAYA DISCAS
  • TSUTAYA Preimum
  • GEO Takuhai Rental
  • Posren
  • DMM.com DVD Rental
  • TSUTAYA
  • TSUTAYA DISCAS
  • GEO
  • GEO Takuhai Rental
  • Posren
  • Amazon
  • HMV
  • TSUTAYA(WEB)
  • TSUTAYA(Offline Shop)
  • GEO
  • Tower Record
  • Tower Record Online
  • Bic Camera.com
  • Bic Camera
  • Yodobashi.com
  • Yodobashi Camera
  • HMV&BOOKS online
  • Shinseido
  • Shinseido WonderGOO
  • Animate
  • Rakuten Books

Aggregation tools allow access to segment data (optional)

This report is available with a " aggregation tool (Excel format / Tableau format)" at an additional cost.Using the aggregation tools (Tableau, Excel), you can check values by segment that are not listed in the report (PDF version), such as values by prefecture or by SVOD user/TVOD user.

The segments (aggregation axes) include...
Gender (in 10-year increments)
By service: SVOD users/TVOD users, etc.
By device: Internet-enabled TV owners, iPhone owners, etc.
By prefecture
Stance on video content: Those who are willing to pay money to watch the video content they want to watch / Those who want to use video content via the Internet

*It is necessary to install "Tableau Reader (free of charge)" when using the aggregation tool in Tableau format.

Table of Contents

  • About this report
  • Summary
    • Chapter 1: Summary on actual use per service category
    • Chapter 2: Summary on brand prevailing status per individual service
    • Chapter 3: Summary on utilization fact-finding per video on demand service
    • Summary of Additional Survey
  • Chapter 1: Actual use per service category
    • Status of utilization per service category and intention to use in the future
    • To what extent are the services used?
    • Who are using the services?
    • How many hours are people viewing?
    • What types of contents are people viewing?
    • Intention to use in the future
    • What aspects are more important when choosing a service?
    • Use of different content viewing methods by service category (New)
    • Intention to use FAST(New)
  • Chapter 2: Brand prevailing status per individual service
    • SVOD service
    • Pay TV service
    • Subscription for DVD・BD service
    • TVOD service
    • DVD・BD rental service
    • EST service
    • DVD・BD purchase service
    • AdVOD service
    • Free broadcast channels (BS) service
    • SVOD services to bundle and use(New)
    • How to Search for Movies on SVOD(New)
  • Chapter 3: Utilization fact-finding per video on demand service
    • Status of parallel use within a service
    • SVOD service
    • TVOD service
    • EST service
    • AdVOD service
  • Reference
    • Device possessed by each gender/generation
    • Attitude towards video contents of each gender/generation
    • Popular genre among each gender/generation
    • Criteria for selecting a video for each gender/generation
    • Which service category is used to view each content?

Survey overview

Product Name Video on demand/Broadcast/Physical home video market user analysis report Surveyed in November 2024
Survey method Internet survey
Survey date Saturday, November 2, 2024, to Wednesday, November 6, 2024
※The previous survey was conducted from Saturday, November 4, 2023, to Wednesday, November 8, 2023.
Survey target Male/female of ages between 15 and 69 who are living in Japan
The number of respondents 18,499(1,924 people among those answered to the questions regarding Chapter 3: Utilization fact-finding per video on demand service).
Weighing of the figures The figures in the survey are weighted by arranging the ratio of gender/generation (teens, 20s, 30s, and so on) of the survey target to be parallel to the demographic estimate released by Statistic Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (rough estimate as of October 1, 2024).
Total pages 192
Sales Methods Download
Deliverable Option report (PDF), Aggregation tools *(optional extra: Tableau, Excel)
Date of issue Friday, December 20, 2024

Price (All prices include tax.)

  • Report
    • Japanese version (PDF): ¥385,000
    • English version (PDF): ¥605,000
    • Japanese version (PDF)+ English version (PDF): ¥825,000
  • Report + Aggregation tools
    • Japanese version (PDF)+ Aggregation tools (Excel, Tableau): ¥715,000
    • Japanese version (PDF)+ English version (PDF)+ Aggregation tools (Excel, Tableau): ¥1,155,000
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