Critical Developments Reports from MIDiA Research

The Voice Market and Behaviour Trends Overview

Karol Severin

March 2019

iPhone

Despite being far from the mainstream at 9% penetration, voice control activity has established itself firmly in certain pockets of the digital entertainment landscape, be it among music subscribers in...

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...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q3 2018

Zach Fuller

December 2018

Apple

Spotify

Amazon

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker, a survey fielded in the US, UK, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Germany Sweden and Australia. The report explores...

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...

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...

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...

MIDiA Spotlight: Brand Fans
Streaming Companies Top Brand Rankings

Georgia Meyer

October 2018

Music Streaming

Fandom

video streaming

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...

MIDiA Data Spotlight: Home Technology
Ownership is Going Both Deep and Wide

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Mark Mulligan

September 2018

Apple TV

wireless speakers

Amazon Echo

This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: The Digital Home is Becoming Increasingly Sophisticated Household Ownership of Digital Technology,...

The Paywall Challenge
Locking Away Digital’s Most Valuable Consumers

Georgia Meyer

September 2018

Spotify

YouTube

Soundcloud

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 their...

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...

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

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Georgia Meyer

August 2018

Spotify

google

Facebook

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...

Paid News Digital Subscriptions
Bubble or Breakthrough?

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Zach Fuller

August 2018

Subscriptions

google

Facebook

Still feeling imbued with the often cited ‘Trump bump’, paid news media subscriptions continued their healthy growth trajectory throughout 2017 and into the first quarter of 2018. The market, excepting...

Tech Majors Market Shares Q2 2018
A Tale of Mixed Fortunes

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Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

August 2018

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

Q2 2018 delivered contrasting milestones for the tech majors with Apple becoming the first company to have a trillion-dollar market capitalisation while Facebook simultaneously saw the single biggest one-day...

Advertising in China
Reaching the Most Digitally Savvy Consumers

Georgia Meyer

July 2018

emerging markets

music streamers

SVOD

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 consumers...

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...

Tech Majors Market Shares Q1 2018
Advertising and Subscriptions Power Growth

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Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

June 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Apple

In Q1 2018 advertising revenue and services revenue drove strong growth for the tech majors – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, with Alphabet and Apple retaining their respective leads in each of those...

Tencent Tech Investment
Pursuing Aggressive Growth in the West

Alistair Taylor

May 2018

Streaming

Spotify

revenue

Tencent, currently the fifth most valuable public company in the world, saw income from ‘other gains’ increase in Q4 2017 by 800% on Q4 2016 figures, going $149.6 million to $1.2 billion. These other...

India and China Media Trends 2018

Zach Fuller

May 2018

Streaming

Spotify

Saavn

China and India are undergoing significant change in their media industries. Both countries are viewed as two of the world’s potentially most lucrative economies for digital content, based upon their...

Tencent Has Outgrown China
Now Comes The Next Phase of Growth

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Alistair Taylor

April 2018

Streaming

Spotify

Amazon

Following the release of its fourth quarter earnings, Tencent is the first Chinese company to achieve a market capitalisation of over $500 billion, displacing Facebook as fifth most valuable global company....

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