Amazon Prime Video Reports from MIDiA Research

Streaming Video Consumer Trends Q4 2018
Reaching The Post-Peak Attention Economy

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Alistair Taylor

February 2019

Apple

With streaming video subscriptions surpassing that of pay-TV in Q1 2018, traditional linear providers are under growing pressure to better understand consumer consumption habits. Pay-TV failed to entice...

Digital Consumer Ad Profiles
Targeting Music and Video Streamers

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Georgia Meyer

January 2019

Spotify

Radio

YouTube

Digital music and video consumers navigate an increasingly nuanced landscape of content formats, from paywalled to ad-supported to social. Levels of engagement with new social formats vary considerably...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends Q4 2018

Tim Mulligan

January 2019

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker, a survey fielded each quarter in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour...

Sports Viewing 2018
SVOD Taking Over?

Alistair Taylor

January 2019

willingness to pay

Spotify

Video

Facing the menacing presence of streaming alternatives, TV networks find themselves under growing pressure to ensure that viewing patterns are strong enough to deliver a return on expensively acquired...

5G: Use Cases, Hurdles and Opportunity

Mark Mulligan

December 2018

Amazon

telco

mobile carriers

5G promises to be the next big step change both in telco business models and the digital content economy. The arrival of 5G will supercharge the business models of many companies across infrastructure...

US Cord Cutting Q3 2018
SVOD Users the Driving Force

Tim Mulligan

December 2018

US

YouTube

Streaming Video

Cord cutting is now a firmly entrenched component of the pay-TV business, especially in the US. Pay-TV providers of all kinds continue to shed subscribers each quarter, all against the backdrop of a continually...

Global Video Forecast 2018–2025

Tim Mulligan

December 2018

YouTube

Amazon

Streaming Video

2018–2025 will represent an epoch-defining era for video as streaming supplants analogue as the main technology for delivering content to TV audiences. In 2018 streaming video subscriptions already reached...

Managing Fandom
Competing For Audience Attention Across Content Formats

Georgia Meyer

November 2018

digital natives

Netflix

hulu

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

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

November 2018

Apple

Spotify

Video

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...

SVOD Overtakes Pay-TV

Alistair Taylor

October 2018

Spotify

Amazon

Netflix

This MIDiA update showcases the monumental shift in the video landscape with signups for subscription video on demand (SVOD) services overtaking pay-TV subscriptions for the very first time in Q1 2018....

Streaming Media Consumption
Video Leads The Way

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Zach Fuller

October 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Apple

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker, a survey fielded in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour evolved...

Video Streaming Subscription Services Market Metrics

Tim Mulligan

September 2018

Netflix

hulu

SVOD

This report includes the key findings of MIDiA’s Global Streaming Video Subscriber Market Share Model, in which we present the subscribers, revenues and market shares of video streaming services...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q2 2018

Mark Mulligan

September 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker, a survey fielded in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour evolved...

The Sports Video Landscape
Sports Streaming Services in a Digital First Ecosystem

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Alistair Taylor

July 2018

Consumer Behaviour

Video

Amazon

The 13.2% dip on the 2019–2022 English Premier League (EPL) rights deals compared to the 2015-2018 deal highlighted the decline in value for sports broadcast rights. In light of this downturn and a fall...

TV and Video Advertising
The Shift to Digital

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Tim Mulligan

June 2018

Netflix

Facebook

emerging markets

The video advertising landscape is slowly moving away from both being broadcast TV based and being primarily driven by developed markets. The transition is picking up pace, with TV advertising declining...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q1 2018

Mark Mulligan

June 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker, a survey fielded in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour evolved...

UK Gamer Profile
Digital Entertainment Natives

Karol Severin

June 2018

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

Mobile and PC gamer penetration declined slightly in the UK between Q4 2016 and Q4 2017. Meanwhile, console ownership did not grow either, attesting that the market is constrained by the impending peak...

2018 India SVOD Consumer Deep Dive

Tim Mulligan

May 2018

Streaming

Hungama

Netflix

India has seen a dramatic rise in engagement with premium video services, fuelled by a combination of mass adoption of mobile technology and rapidly rising disposable incomes. However, India’s SVOD market...

Profiling Chinese and Indian Gamers

Karol Severin

April 2018

Spotify

YouTube

Saavn

Gaming in China and India is much further away from the mainstream than in key English-speaking markets. Gamers in both countries however form a highly digitally sophisticated, engaged and spending addressable...

Binge-viewing Gamers
Competition Spikes As Peak Attention Nears

Karol Severin

February 2018

Netflix

Amazon Prime Video

Activision

Binge watching is mainstream among console owners. It increased slightly during 2017 among SVOD subscribers, while the consumer average remained unchanged. As the attention economy peaks, with consumers...

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