Conviva has followed up last month’s Global State of Streaming Q2 2021 report with a dedicated European version of the video trends series, touching on many of the same observations while zooming in closer on viewing habits across a continent obsessed with soccer. The headline conclusion is that video streaming in the second quarter didn’t drop off as many expected, but in fact increased. There was a general expectation that consumers being given more freedom to head outside during the last quarter would correlate negatively with video viewing, as a natural casualty of this return to ‘normal’ – yet Conviva takes great pleasure in reporting quite the opposite. In Europe, streaming rose by 19% in Q2 2021, with Western Europe…