FIDA datasets on the distribution of European films on VOD streaming services globally

These two datasets are associated with the CresCine (https://www.crescine.eu/) dashboard that provides an overview how European films circulate in Video-on-Demand (VOD) services, offering insights from this increasingly critical state of the film lifecycle. The dashboard uses aggregated data from CresCine’s Film Industry Data Repository (FIDA) to observe when films enter VOD catalogues, how long they are available, and how distribution may differ across streaming services, production countries, and genres. Any user of the data will have to in any related publication refer to the paper explaining the database that can be found here: https://zenodo.org/records/17829236 The streaming data specifically was originally provided by UsherU, an Irish film industry data collection and analytics firm. FIDA includes 4 years (2021-2024) of monthly data on the availability of European films on VOD streaming services across the world. Streaming data has been enriched with data from other sources (TMDB, Lumiere Pro, Wikidata). The dashboard supports comparative analysis across markets and their groups, enabling users to see which countries have broader visibility in streaming services over time. Explanation on acronyms used in the dashboard: EU Big 5 are Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Poland; EU Small Countries are all the rest of the EU countries; EC Small Countries are the rest of European small countries that are the members of the Council of Europe; Turkey, UK and Ukraine form a separate group as they are the large countries next to the EU; “International” refers to all other countries. The overall aim of this dashboard is to provide an accessible analytical tool for researchers, policymakers, sales agents and cultural institutions seeking to understand the reach and mobility of European film in VOD services. By doing so, it also showcases the analytical possibilities offered by the information compiled in FIDA, which can be employed to create custom visualisations to study trends and opportunities in digital distribution, facilitate evidence-based distribution planning, and create policies and schemes that promote the visibility of underrepresented national cinemas across streaming services.