| Television formats: Primetime staple, global market A Esser Popular communication 8 (4), 273-292, 2010 | 102 | 2010 |
| Media across borders A Esser, MA Bernal-Merino, IR Smith Taylor & Francis, 2016 | 67 | 2016 |
| Shift or Stasis| Challenging US Leadership in Entertainment Television? The Rise and Sale of Europe’s International TV Production Groups A Esser International Journal of Communication 10, 30, 2016 | 45 | 2016 |
| Audiovisual content in Europe: Transnationalization and approximation A Esser Journal of Contemporary European Studies 15 (2), 163-184, 2007 | 44 | 2007 |
| European television programming: Exemplifying and theorizing glocalization in the media A Esser European glocalization in global context, 82-102, 2014 | 42 | 2014 |
| The transnationalization of European television A Esser Journal of European Area Studies 10 (1), 13-29, 2002 | 41 | 2002 |
| The format business: Franchising television content A Esser International Journal of Digital Television 4 (2), 141-158, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| Form, platform and the formation of transnational audiences: A case study of how Danish TV drama series captured television viewers in the United Kingdom A Esser Critical Studies in Television 12 (4), 411-429, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
| Defining ‘the local’in localization or ‘adapting for whom?’ A Esser Media across borders, 25-41, 2016 | 28 | 2016 |
| The duality of banal transnationalism and banal nationalism: Television audiences and the musical talent competition genre A Esser, PM Jensen, H Keinonen, AM Lemor New patterns in global television formats, 295-309, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| The use of international television formats by public service broadcasters in Australia, Denmark and Germany A Esser, PM Jensen International communication gazette 77 (4), 359-383, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| Formatiertes Fernsehen. Die Bedeutung von Formaten für Fernsehsender und Produktionsmärkte A Esser Media Perspektiven 11 (2010), 502-514, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| Trends in television programming: Commercialization, transnationalization, convergence A Esser Charles, Alec. Media in the enlarged Europe: Polifics, policy and industry …, 2009 | 20 | 2009 |
| The TV format trade and the world media system: Change and continuity J Chalaby, A Esser International journal of digital television 8 (1), 3-7, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| TV formats: History, theory, industry and audiences A Esser Critical Studies in Television 8 (2), vii-xvi, 2013 | 15 | 2013 |
| Format is King”: Television Formats and Commercialisation A Esser Private television in Western Europe: Content, markets, policies, 151-168, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| The appeal of “authenticity”: Danish television series and their British audiences A Esser Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
| Key international markets: Distribution and consumption of Danish TV drama series in Germany and the UK S Eichner, A Esser Danish television drama: Global lessons from a small nation, 187-207, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| 'Modes of engagement with musical talent shows: Studying audience engagement as a set of experiences' H Keinonen, PM Jensen, AM Lemor, A Esser Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies 15 (2), 58-76, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Audio-visual content in the EU: Production and scheduling A Esser European media in the digital age, 182-215, 2013 | 10 | 2013 |
