Georgia Meyer

Managing Fandom
Competing For Audience Attention Across Content Formats

Report by Georgia Meyer

16 Nov 2018

In the distributed digital landscape audience overlaps are sometimes unexpected and nuanced; the competition for attention goes beyond the simple binary choices of one TV show or another – i.e. video…

MIDiA Research Predictions 2019

Report by Alistair Taylor, Georgia Meyer, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

8 Nov 2018

In this report MIDiA Research analysts present their predictions for what will be the big trends in digital media and tech, across music, video, media, brands, marketing, games and sports in 2019. Key…

Demystifying the Chaos: Amazon's Quest for Commercial Omnipotence

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

5 Nov 2018

There is hardly a moment that Amazon is not making the news. The business is now so vast, and spread across so many areas of technology, culture and commerce, that it is difficult to keep abreast of developments…

Marketing to Streaming Subscribers
Engaging with Social Stories and Smart Speakers

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Report by Georgia Meyer

10 Oct 2018

The most valuable consumers to advertisers increasingly spend time with digital content that sits behind a paywall. Music and video subscribers are particularly valuable due to the influence they have…

Advertising Week New York: The Dynamic, the Dead and the Dangerous

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

9 Oct 2018

Notoriously overwhelming, this week’s AWNY ramped activities up even further, expanding the number of stages from 8 to 12. A disorientating amount of content to navigate and a somewhat amusing metaphor…

MIDiA Spotlight: Brand Fans
Streaming Companies Top Brand Rankings

Report by Georgia Meyer

4 Oct 2018

This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: Streaming Giants Have the Biggest Brand Fan Audiences Brand Fan Penetration for Leading Technology…

The Paywall Challenge
Locking Away Digital’s Most Valuable Consumers

Report by Georgia Meyer

21 Sep 2018

Music and video subscribers are the most influential amongst their peer groups and are some of the most valuable segments for advertisers and brands. The fact that they spend an increasing portion of…

The Instagram Shop: The Case for Ecommerce Diversification and Tech Major Dismantling

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

14 Sep 2018

The Verge recently reported rumours that Facebook is building a standalone Instagram app for shopping. Whilst this news is as yet unconfirmed by Instagram, it would seem a logical next step given Facebook’s…

Nike Has Initiated A New Era for Politicised Brands

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

6 Sep 2018

Nike’s choice to use Colin Kaepernick as one of the faces of its Just Do It slogan anniversary campaign is the latest – but as yet unmatched in scale – step in overt brand politics. The issue which…

Podcasts: Monetising Behind Streaming Paywalls

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

31 Aug 2018

Spotify’s exclusive deal with The Joe Budden podcast, as well as upping the output from a weekly to a bi-weekly show, is demonstrative of the opportunity that music streaming services perceive podcasts…

India’s Digital Consumers
Race to Win The Next Billion Intensifies

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Report by Georgia Meyer

24 Aug 2018

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A large portion of the globe’s next one billion digital consumers are going to come online in India. These consumers are characterised by swift adoption of digital spending habits, having leapfrogged…

Tech Majors Square Up at the Intersection of Voice and Ecommerce

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

22 Aug 2018

On the August 6th The Information published an article debunking the hype around the voice-activated shopping sector. Based on information gleaned from people present at an internal Amazon briefing, the…

The Medium is The Message

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

20 Aug 2018

When Jonah Peretti, the founder and CEO of Buzzfeed, made the now famous statement that, “Content is King but distribution is the Queen, and she wears the trousers” back in 2015, he perhaps did not…

The End of Advertising

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

17 Aug 2018

On 6 th August, news broke that Facebook had approached the US’s largest banks with a request for them to share their customers’ private data. Upon news of this breaking in the Wall Street Journal,…

WhatsApp Is Open for Business (Finally)

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

8 Aug 2018

Four years after Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion, the ubiquitous messaging app is ramping up its revenue potential with the launch last week of a suite of business tools and new advertising…

Snapchat Cuts Snapcash but Continues to Grow Commerce Strategy

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

25 Jul 2018

Almost four years after launching Snapcash Snap has decided to call time on the peer-to-peer payment service. On the surface Snapcash was set up to facilitate simple transfers of money between friends.…

Advertising in China
Reaching the Most Digitally Savvy Consumers

Report by Georgia Meyer

24 Jul 2018

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Streaming, both music and video, are in the early follower phase of consumer adoption in China. While they are still niche consumer segments, their behaviours will become more widely adopted. Chinese…

Facebook Looks to Snapchat For Best Practice in the Battle For AR Supremacy

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

20 Jul 2018

Facebook has once again co-opted an innovative social media product development from Snap – the parent company of Snapchat. Firstly, it incorporated Snapchat’s uniquely differentiated stories functionality,…

Audio Advertising: The New Critical Interface to Reach Premium Consumers

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

11 Jul 2018

A key way MIDiA Research defines premium consumers is the extent to which they fall into the early adopter and early follower consumer categories. An early adopter is characterised by a propensity to be…

Subscriptions put premium consumers as well as premium content behind paywalls

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

5 Jul 2018

There are now 436 million paying subscribers across five of the largest distributors of digital music and video content globally (Spotify, Apple Music, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tencent). This has very different…