DAZN Reports from MIDiA Research

Live sport 2.0
Capturing younger audiences with the creator economy

Ben Woods

June 2023

Twitch

The funding model for live sports has created fissures between older viewers who can afford to pay a premium for live access and younger audiences who either cannot, or do not want to. While older generations...

Watch parties
Rebooting the watercooler moment

Ben Woods

February 2023

Video

YouTube

Amazon

Group watching television with family and friends is being consigned to a bygone era. Algorithms are forcing entertainment consumers into silos through an endless stream of personally recommended content...

Cultural Trends in 2021
Navigating a New Normal

Hanna Kahlert

December 2020

Apple

Spotify

Behaviours under coronavirus-driven lockdowns accelerated underlying digital consumption trends. Remote working and ongoing restrictions mean streaming behaviour is up across formats and demographics at...

2021 Predictions
The Year of the Immersive Web

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

November 2020

Spotify

discovery

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. Key...

DAZN 2019 Financials and Subscriber Deep Dive
Domestic Rights Key to Unlocking Audiences

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Alistair Taylor

September 2020

Video

Sky

Financial Times

DAZN’s 2018 financials highlighted the difficulty in encouraging consumer adoption of a digital live sports proposition with a limited portfolio of sports rights. 2019 marked a year of consolidation...

Recovery Economics
Post-Lockdown Sports

Alistair Taylor

August 2020

Disney

Comcast

Sky

As live sports resume following the coronavirus crisis lockdowns, the long-term impact of sports’ mass hiatus will be substantial. An activity gap created a void state for consumers, freeing up previously...

Sports Consumption
Measuring COVID-19’s Impact

Alistair Taylor

July 2020

Apple

Video

discovery

With the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports creating an entertainment void for sports fans, understanding COVID-19’s impact on overall sports consumption and where audiences are substituting...

COVID-19
Impact on Entertainment Demand and Behaviours

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

April 2020

Free Report

Spotify

Amazon

Netflix

COVID-19 is having a clear and direct impact on the entertainment and media industries, driven by investor uncertainty – resulting in plummeting share prices – and restrictions on movement of people...

COVID-19 and the Vulnerability of Pure Play Sports Streaming Services

Alistair Taylor

April 2020

Subscriptions

US

UK

The postponement of annual competitions and major quadrennial events has highlighted just how heavily pay-TV and sport-centric streaming services’ value propositions rely on live sports. Filling schedules...

COVID-19
The Self-Isolation Entertainment Boom

Mark Mulligan

April 2020

Free Report

Streaming

Spotify

artists

Following our first COVID-19 impact report, this report deep dives into how media consumption patterns have changed in the initial weeks of COVID-19 dislocation. While it is crucial to remember that these...

Sports Consumer Trends
The Sun Sets on Pay-TV Dominance

Alistair Taylor

February 2020

Video

Amazon

Facebook

With subscription video on demand (SVOD) services surpassing pay-TV penetration en route to becoming a mainstream medium, sporting consumption habits have inherently changed. Rights holders, broadcasters,...

20/20 Vision
MIDiA Research Predictions 2020

Alistair Taylor, Amanda Stears, Karol Severin, Keith Jopling, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

December 2019

Apple

Spotify

discovery

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 2020 and the...

US and UK Sports Fans
Reaching Digital Natives

Alistair Taylor

December 2019

YouTube

Amazon

revenue

Sports as a product is feeling the squeeze of the peak attention economy. Sports fans in the traditional sense are ageing, and appealing to a younger digitally-native audience is a fundamental issue that...

Sports Rights
Measuring the ROI for Streaming

Alistair Taylor

October 2019

Subscriptions

Video

Amazon

Measuring streaming sports audience engagement is paramount when determining which rights mix consumers are actually willing to pay for. Netflix has shown that in a saturated market, retaining consumer...

Recession Impact
How an Economic Downturn Could Reshape Digital Media

Alistair Taylor, Amanda Stears, Karol Severin, Keith Jopling, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

October 2019

Apple

Spotify

Amazon

Ten years on from the credit crunch, the global economy could be poised to enter another economic recession. Many of the underlying causes of the credit crunch remain in place, due to governments lacking...

Sports Fans Consumer Trends 2019

Alistair Taylor

August 2019

subscribers

Netflix

audience engagement

Sports-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) services have largely struggled to entice subscribers, based on their current value propositions which consist mainly of niche rights. Pay-TV has the...

Sports and the Tech Majors
A Competitive Partnership

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Alistair Taylor

July 2019

Free Report

Apple

Video

Amazon

The big gap in streaming video’s content mix has historically been sports. This is now changing through a combination of disruptive challenger sports subscription video on demand (SVOD) services such...

2019-2021
Emerging New Metrics for Sports Streaming Success

Alistair Taylor

June 2019

Streaming

Apple

Amazon

The clock is ticking down to 2021 when the major domestic sports rights in the US and the UK will start coming up for renewal. Thus far, pureplay sports streaming video on demand (SVOD) services such as...

Sports SVOD Services Deep Dive

Alistair Taylor

May 2019

Apple

Spotify

Video

Sports-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) services have entered international markets, looking to capture digital-native audiences from pay-TV and other established SVOD services. Eleven Sports’...

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

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Alistair Taylor

February 2019

Apple

YouTube

Netflix

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...

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