Reports: Entertainment and Fandom

Browse all of our reports, featuring our analysts' expert insights and analysis of audience segmentation, emerging trends and technologies, value chains, market shares, predictions and more – backed by our proprietary survey data and bespoke models & forecasts. Become a subscriber to get new ones every month, or just pick one to get started.

French music consumer user profile
Unlocking fandom

Tatiana Cirisano

August 2024

Audience Insight

This report presents MIDiA consumer data for key music behaviours of French consumers. Key data and insights in this report: Monthly music streaming behaviours of French consumers Listening habits of French...

High tide raises all ships
Leveraging the cultural tidal wave of Grand Theft Auto VI

Cover image for High tide raises all ships

Rhys Elliott

July 2024

Audience Insight

Grand Theft Auto VI ( GTA 6 ), due to be released in autumn 2025, is on track to be one of the biggest entertainment launches of all time. It will capture a significant amount of consumer attention. Marketers...

Audio psychographics
Understanding why people listen

Cover image for Audio psychographics

Rutger Rosenborg

July 2024

Audience Insight

With so much content competing for consumers' attention, it is not enough to just give them ways to spend their limited resources (time and money). Audio companies must also give consumers reasons to do...

Entertainment behaviour
The frequency factor

Cover image for Entertainment behaviour

Mark Mulligan

July 2024

Audience Insight

This report presents a holistic view of entertainment behaviour for music, video, games, social, and audio. Traditionally, entertainment services report users in terms of monthly, and occasionally weekly...

Bigger is not always better
Premium gaming’s AA opportunity

Cover image for Bigger is not always better

Rhys Elliott

July 2024

Business Strategy

Following the post-pandemic slowdown of global games revenue growth, cost-cutting measures are now in full force. However, games continue to grow in scope and length with budgets often exceeding hundreds...

Video churn
Streaming TV’s cord-cutting moment

Cover image for Video churn

Tim Mulligan

June 2024

Business Strategy

Global subscriber growth is maturing while incomes are becoming constrained and alternatives to streaming TV are proliferating. For the first time in the history of subscription video on demand (SVOD),...

Gamers
A cross-entertainment summary

Cover image for Gamers

Karol Severin

June 2024

Business Strategy

This report presents the key figures, behaviors, and preferences of gamers across entertainment. Graphics in this report show selected gamer segments, compared to relevant consumer segments across entertainment...

Defining podcast taste
The universal appeal of music, news, and comedy

Cover image for Defining podcast taste

Rutger Rosenborg

June 2024

Business Strategy

While the epicentre of podcasting revenue is in the West, the listener base has become truly global. According to MIDiA’s podcast forecasts, Asia Pacific already accounts for three times as many podcast...

MIDiA Research 2024-2031 global subscription video forecasts

Cover image for MIDiA Research 2024-2031 global subscription video forecasts

Tim Mulligan, Ben Woods and Mark Qi

May 2024

Business Strategy

MIDiA’s global subscription video forecasts captures a broad view of the market. With limited video subscriber growth remaining in the West, revenue growth will be fuelled by price rises and increased...

Golden years, golden opportunity
Older gamers are a key growth opportunity in a challenging games market

Cover image for Golden years, golden opportunity

Rhys Elliott

May 2024

Audience Insight

Unlike in the past, gamers are now sticking with games through adulthood and into old age, leading to a growing segment of older gamers. Older gamers are a valuable segment posing a key growth opportunity...

Niche is mainstream
How scenes, niche aggregators, and creators will reshape entertainment

Cover image for Niche is mainstream

Hanna Kahlert

April 2024

Audience Insight

As niche officially becomes mainstream, the entertainment industry faces a delicate balance. Audiences are losing interest in broad, mainstream propositions, but hyper-personalised niches are inherently...

Gamers' time
Where it is and how to get it

Cover image for Gamers' time

Karol Severin

April 2024

Business Strategy

Product Strategy

With the attention economy saturated, there is next to no incremental entertainment time up for grabs. This comes precisely at a time when more games depend on growing time spent. As games are only the...

Mainstreaming the metaverse
The Apple Vision Pro and entertainment’s opportunity

Cover image for Mainstreaming the metaverse

Tim Mulligan

April 2024

Business Strategy

The Q1 2024 US launch of the Apple Vision Pro virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR) device has reignited interest in the metaverse, a bus that has so far stubbornly refused to arrive. Apple’s...

MIDiA Research 2024–2030 global podcast forecasts
Road to a $10 billion business

Cover image for MIDiA Research 2024–2030 global podcast forecasts

Mark Qi and Rutger Rosenborg

March 2024

Business Strategy

The temporary digital consumption boom of the pandemic gave way to an inflationary landscape fuelled by global supply chain issues and geopolitical crises. While inflation levelled out in 2023, the residual...

Pluto TV Q4 2023 consumer deep dive

Cover image for Pluto TV Q4 2023 consumer deep dive

Tim Mulligan

March 2024

Audience Insight

This slide deck presents a snapshot of Pluto TV users across video, games, and music. It includes age breakdowns, time spent on video, money spent on video, video, games, music, multimedia subscription...

Paramount+ Q4 2023 consumer deep dive

Cover image for Paramount+ Q4 2023 consumer deep dive

Tim Mulligan

March 2024

Audience Insight

This slide deck presents a snapshot of Paramount+ users across video, games, and music. It includes age breakdowns, time spent on video, money spent on video, video, games, music, multimedia subscription...

Audiobook consumer profile
A focused, engaged niche

Kazia Rothwell

February 2024

Audience Insight

Key data and insights included in this report: Audiobook user snapshot, behaviours and demographics compared to the average consumer Change in time spent and listenership of audiobooks compared to other...

Games subscription user deep dive
More is more

Cover image for Games subscription user deep dive

Karol Severin

February 2024

Audience Insight

Games subscriptions are playing an increasingly important role in the distribution section of the games industry’s value chain. A growing number of developers, therefore, must think through whether to...

Audio substitute threat
Measuring consumer time allocation

Cover image for Audio substitute threat

Rutger Rosenborg

February 2024

Streaming

cannibalization

Radio

All forms of entertainment compete not only for the same time, but increasingly for the same digital real estate. As audio streaming platforms move towards all-in-one access to multiple formats, both platforms...

Beyond the obvious
Building future-focused strategy

Cover image for Beyond the obvious

Mark Mulligan, Keith Jopling and Kriss Thakrar

February 2024

Product Strategy

Business strategy has long been demarcated across sustaining and disruptive innovation. In the digital realm the latter has had the upper hand, but as digital enters a slower growth phase, sustaining innovation...

‹
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
...
44
45
›

Showing 21 to 40 of 898 results.