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Conference season shows video industry sharpening the focus on interactive content and AI tools

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Ben Woods

26 Sep 2024

Creator Economy

Cutting through the noise during conference season is always a challenge. But it becomes easier when comparing the mood and messaging from the previous year’s event. Sometimes a year is all it takes...

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Music creator economy: recalibration

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Mark Mulligan

26 Sep 2024

Creator Economy

music creator tools

The music creator economy has been long in the making but was thrust into the wider music industry’s limelight with the Covid lockdowns triggering a surge in new creators. As with any bubble, many creator...

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The battle has begun to own the creator through all-encompassing ecosystems

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Ben Woods

4 Sep 2024

Creator Economy

There has always been tension between the goals of creators, social platforms, and creator tools companies. As the creator economy has evolved, a push and pull has ensued between what creators’ feel...

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Is it time to retire the ‘AI’ brand to bolster adoption among video creators?

Ben Woods

23 Aug 2024

Marketing Strategy

AI tools have put the video creator economy in sharp focus over recent months. AI video generators like Runway and OpenAI’s Sora have provided a tangible example of not just AI’s capability in video,...

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How CapCut is challenging Adobe Premiere Pro’s dominance of the video editing market

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Ben Woods

15 Aug 2024

Adobe Premiere Pro

Social platforms have brought a significant number of new creators into the market. With this has come a whole host of creator tools companies looking to capitalise on the opportunity. While their features...

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Will video editing tools still dominate in a world of AI video creation?

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Ben Woods

16 Jul 2024

AI video generators

Experimenting with tools is part and parcel of being a video creator. With each new video editor preset or plug-in comes an opportunity tore-think the creative process. Rather than being fixed, workflows...

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Why video creation tools must go niche to survive AI streamliners like Apple Intelligence

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Ben Woods

11 Jun 2024

Amid the flurry of recent generative AI announcements, Apple had been strangely quiet. This changed on Monday (June 11, 2024) when it announced Apple Intelligence at its WWDC24 developer conference. In...

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AI is promising a video creation revolution: Are you ready for the upside?

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Ben Woods

6 Jun 2024

Creator Economy

Video has reached an inflection point. Artificial intelligence is poised to bring video creation to even more consumers, in a move that will disrupt the tools, workflows, and business models underpinning...

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Why social video platforms should worry about their creators in the squeezed middle

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Ben Woods

29 May 2024

The fallout of the pandemic exposed some uncomfortable truths about the creator economy. After an engagement boom during lockdown, the seemingly endless audience for social video content suddenly appeared...

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Chasing the zeitgeist: why speed trumps creativity in social video marketing

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Ben Woods

16 May 2024

TikTok has redefined what it means to be part of a cultural moment. In the past, engaging with trends meant being a consumer of content that captured the spirit of the time. For video, this was largely...

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Apple is not the only one crushing the old music-making paradigm

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Kriss Thakrar

15 May 2024

music production

Apple is crushing it – literally. The new iPad Pro ad received widespread backlash for its controversial crushing of musical instruments to demonstrate what is ‘packed into’ Logic Pro on the iPad....

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AI video generators have underestimated the appeal of being a suffering artist

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Ben Woods

1 May 2024

video production

Given the tussle for technological dominance between Asia and the West, it is unsurprising that China has launched a competitor to OpenAI’s Sora . Unveiled at the ZGC Forum in Beijing on Saturday (April...

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Video Creators: Tell us how you create for a chance to win $500

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Ben Woods

30 Apr 2024

Creator Economy

MIDiA is building a new research stream focused on video creators and the tools they use to create. We are striving to understand the unique workflows and creative processes that underpin the art of making...

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How will AI change the video creator tools’ value chain?

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Ben Woods

18 Apr 2024

When it comes to selling software and hardware, the creatoreconomy resembles other types of hobby. Take sports: there are plenty of cheapfootballs and tennis rackets out there for consumers who want to...

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Despite its hyper-futurism, 2023 was a return to the past

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Tatiana Cirisano

21 Dec 2023

From politics to tech to entertainment, the past few years can best be described as unprecedented. In 2023, daily life felt especially futuristic and surreal, with artificial intelligence dominating the...

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State of the music creator economy – The consumer era

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Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2023

music creator tools

Creator Economy

MIDiA is excited to announce the publication of the latest edition of its annual ‘State of the music creator economy’ report. Based on months of research, MIDiA creator and consumer surveys, market...

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The $100m+ in-game opportunity behind music producers

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Kriss Thakrar

15 Nov 2023

monetizing fandom

MIDiA’s latest forecasts predict that the video game industry will be worth over $300 billion in 2030, a figure that makes a minnow out of a music industry that will reach $87 billion in retail terms...

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Can subscriptions keep the lights on for social?

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Hanna Kahlert

19 Oct 2023

user generated content

Digital advertising has long been the financial backbone of the digital world. It has underpinned the business models of the likes of Google and Meta, and its absence has been the value proposition of...

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How AI can empower creators by cutting through content saturation

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Ben Woods

5 Oct 2023

When YouTube’s chief executive Neal Mohan recently revealed a suite of AI tools to support creators, he aimed to drastically reduce the time it takes to produce content. Among those innovations were...

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A new era of ‘fan-made’ music is about to begin

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Kriss Thakrar

30 Aug 2023

Since MIDiA’s comments on TikTok’s music production ambitions more than two years ago, a lot has changed. Consumers have become bolder and more engaged in playing an active role in their music consumption....

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