business strategy Reports from MIDiA Research

Spotify Q2 2021 earnings
Slowdown arrives

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Report by Mark Mulligan

11 Aug 2021

The growth headwinds that appeared in Q1 2021 manifested in a pronounced user growth slowdown in Q2, with ad-supported users hit hardest. Spotify has been through lean growth periods before, but what…

Unlocking mainstream AVOD
The silver streamer catalyst

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Report by Tim Mulligan

31 Jul 2021

£3,000.00

AVOD

Silver Streamer

demographics

Ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) has been championed as the free-to-access equivalent of subscription video on demand (SVOD). However, for AVOD to become the digital successor to free-to-view TV…

MIDiA Research 2021 – 2028 global music forecasts
ARPU growth finally delivers

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Report by Mark Mulligan

30 Jun 2021

forecast

music forecast

market share

This report presents the key figures, trends and drivers of MIDiA’s music forecast model. The figures presented in this report are both retail and label trade values and are in billions of US dollars…

Monetising Fandom
Unlocking growth beyond games

Report by Karol Severin

23 Apr 2021

Free Report

Games

audience insight

business strategy

Beyond gaming to cross-entertainment partnerships webinar slides - 22-04-2021

Getting serious about esports
Identifying off-season digital engagement opportunities for sports

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Report by Alistair Taylor

31 Mar 2021

£3,000.00

esports

Esports Sports

streaming sports

COVID-19 has expedited the need for rights holders and teams to generate digital engagement beyond the pure play live broadcast. Games and esports became big attention economy winners during the early…

Spotify Q4 2020 earnings
ARPU pays the price for growth

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Report by Mark Mulligan

28 Feb 2021

£3,000.00

Spotify

Spotify Q4

Spotify FY20

In 2020 Spotify accelerated the growth of its total user base, with emerging markets playing a key role. However, revenue increases became decoupled from user growth across all categories, resulting in…

Sports audiences
The Gen Z opportunity

Report by Alistair Taylor

8 Feb 2021

£3,000.00

Activision Blizzard

Amazon

amazon prime video

Digital natives are more likely to consume non-live sports than older, traditional sports fans, which presents rights holders and broadcasters with untapped potential for monetisation by harnessing…

The Great Reaggregation
Lockdown, Demand and Consolidation

Report by Tim Mulligan

29 Jan 2021

£3,000.00

Video

reaggregation

video ecosystems

COVID-19 removed the constraints imposed by peak attention, leading to a surge in home-based entertainment consumption and streaming adoption. Fortuitous timing, enforced home working and the end of…

Music and Games Partnership Strategy
Beyond the Comfort Zone

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Report by Karol Severin

29 Jan 2021

£5,000.00

music licensing

games music partnerships

in-game spending

Music companies are flocking to explore partnerships with games companies. Seeking a foothold in a fast-growing market, music companies are often looking for easy wins that fit traditional licensing…

Sports Rights
The Great Reset

Report by Alistair Taylor

16 Dec 2020

£3,000.00

Amazon

BT Sport

BT

COVID-19 exposed live entertainment as a vulnerable asset class during a global health crisis, rendering services overly reliant on live sports broadcasts as primary churn candidates. A major overhaul…

Spotify Q3 2020 Earnings
The Shift to Free

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Report by Mark Mulligan

27 Nov 2020

£3,000.00

Spotify

Spotify Q3

Spotify q3 20 earnings

With three quarters of 2020 gone, Spotify has prospered during the most challenging of times, with consistent growth across most metrics. Q3 2020 saw a slight deviation from the script though, with ad-supported…

2021 Predictions
The Year of the Immersive Web

Report by Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Alistair Taylor and Hanna Kahlert

23 Nov 2020

£5,000.00

amazon channels

Amazon Prime

Apple One

In this report MIDiA Research analysts present their predictions for what will be the big trends in digital media and tech across music, video, brands, marketing, games and sports in 2021 and beyond.…

State of the YouTube Music Economy 3.0 -
End of the Beginning

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Report by Mark Mulligan

30 Oct 2020

£5,000.00

Music

YouTube

business strategy

This is the third bi-annual report of its kind, providing the most comprehensive view available of the YouTube music economy. It presents data for revenues, royalty payments, streams, subscribers, user…

MIDiA Research Artist Survey Q2 2020

Report by Mark Mulligan and Keith Jopling

18 Sep 2020

£500.00

independent artists

survey

charts

This deck presents findings from MIDiA's Q2 2020 survey of music artists, assessing the impact on their careers in the wake of the coronavirus. It consists of 13 charts/graphs/table slides. The full…

Music Subscriber Market Shares 4.0
Subscriptions Decouple from Revenue

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Report by Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2020

£5,000.00

streaming

music streaming

subscriptions

This report presents key figures from MIDiA’s global music subscriber market shares model. The full dataset is published alongside this report with quarterly data from Q4 2015 to Q1 2020 and annual…

Post-Pandemic Programming
Surviving and Thriving in the Recession

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Report by Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Alistair Taylor, Keith Jopling and Hanna Kahlert

9 Sep 2020

£5,000.00

aeg

AMC Cinemas

Alphabet

COVID-19 caused dislocation and disruption to the global entertainment business. Now, the recession and the prospect of further pandemic peaks have created an unprecedented outlook for entertainment…

Spotify Q2 2020 Earnings
In the Shadow of COVID

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Report by Mark Mulligan

18 Aug 2020

£3,000.00

Spotify

Spotify Q2

Spotify q2 20 earnings

Spotify’s share price grew strongly in June 2020, with the markets responding positively to its podcast investments. However, while that increase was sustained throughout July, by mid-August the share…

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