Reports: Entertainment and Fandom

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Music Marketing
Niche is the New Mainstream

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Mark Mulligan

May 2019

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify

Streaming personalisation and falling radio audiences are combining to rewrite the music marketing rulebook, ushering in a whole new marketing paradigm. Hits used to be cultural moments; artist brands...

US Cord Cutting Full Year 2018
Streaming Transition Picks Up Pace

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Tim Mulligan

April 2019

US

YouTube

Streaming video

Cord cutting is now an established component of the US pay-TV landscape, reinforcing the role of the US as the canary in the mine for the global pay-TV business. Cord cutting accelerated in 2018, highlighting...

Profiling the Live Music Consumer
How Streaming Behaviours are Changing the Face of the Live Music Business

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Zach Fuller

April 2019

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

Live music revenues grew dramatically throughout the piracy years of the 2000s and early 2010s, with festivals in particular gaining popularity while the recorded music industry grappled with the existential...

Youtube e Spotify tomam conta do mercado latino-americano de streaming de música

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Leo Morel

April 2019

Streaming

Streaming Music

Latin America

Visão Geral: A América Latina tornou-se um dos mais importantes mercados de streaming de música devido a fatores como a acelerada adoção por parte do consumidor, a crescente proliferação de smartphones,...

E-sports
An Alternative Future for Televised Sports?

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Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

April 2019

Video

YouTube

Amazon

E-sports continue to gain attention, with more brands seeking to enter the space populated as it is by a succession of new leagues, competitions and teams. But for all the hype, e-sports has not yet managed...

SVOD Stacking
Direct to Consumer Services Set to Move the Needle

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Tim Mulligan

March 2019

Streaming

US

UK

In the attention economy, everyone is your competitor – a point well made by Netflix’s Reed Hastings’ observation that the company is now vying for viewer time with the popular game Fortnite....

Four Marketing Principles for the Digital Economy
1.0

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Georgia Meyer

March 2019

digital content

context

amazon studios

The ascent of the digital economy has resulted in a radical change of marketing principles, the consequences of which have not yet been sufficiently understood. This report outlines four marketing principles...

The Voice Market and Behaviour Trends Overview

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Karol Severin

March 2019

Facebook

Twitter

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...

Games Streaming
Tech Major Disruption is Coming

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Karol Severin

February 2019

tech majors

Attention economy

cross-platform gaming

Streaming is about to take the gaming world by storm. With new entrants including Google, Amazon, and Verizon, and others to come in the future, the traditionally siloed gaming model is becoming part of...

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...

MIDiA Research Music Forecasts 2018–2026

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Mark Mulligan

February 2019

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

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

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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?

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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...

Consumer Willingness to Pay for Video Streaming Subscriptions

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Tim Mulligan

January 2019

Streaming video

SVOD

Sports SVOD

This slide deck highlights consumer demand for video subscription services and preferred features, with detail for sub segments such as country, age, streaming service and video service preference. The...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q3 2018

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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

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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

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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...

Music Consumer Behaviour Q3 2018
YouTube Leads the Way But At What Cost?

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Mark Mulligan

December 2018

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

This report presents music consumption data for Q3 2018, with consumer data for US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Key Findings Radio listening is the most widespread...

Global Video Forecast 2018–2025

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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...

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