Reports: Entertainment and Fandom

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Digital collectables and NFTs
Entertainment impacts for the video ecosystem

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Tim Mulligan

April 2022

Video

smart tvs

Business Strategy

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have caught the attention of the wider media landscape. However, consumer awareness is niche with just 20% of consumers aware of what NFTs are. Despite this, NFTs represent the...

AVOD
A market primed for success

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Tim Mulligan

March 2022

Video

Business Strategy

The leading ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) services in the US have doubled their weekly active users (WAUs) in the past 24 months. While still niche, AVOD is now moving ever closer to mainstream adoption....

Gamer brand fandom
Assessing partnership suitability between games and entertainment brands

Karol Severin

March 2022

Gaming

Games

Entertainment

Entertainment partnerships in games are booming, with games companies being approached with opportunities from all directions. This increased level of opportunity puts pressure on the available time and...

Games companies’ video opportunity
From marketing to monetisation

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Karol Severin

March 2022

Streaming

Gaming

Games

MIDiAs head games analyst, Karol Severin, discusses a key games video opportunity for games companies and games video creators alike, alongside two panellists - CEO of Wormhole Labs and a Twitch content...

Cultural trends of 2022
A year of inflection points

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Hanna Kahlert

February 2022

Digital-first life is now a bygone fact, from remote working to streaming as the default mode of entertainment consumption. Social media has evolved from its role as a personalised update feed, to a world...

Music consumer survey, Q3 2021
A new generation leans forward

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Tatiana Cirisano

February 2022

Creators

Radio

radio audiences

As streaming subscriptions rise and music increasingly competes with other forms of media for consumers’ limited attention spans, lean-back listening activities are taking precedence over those which...

Audio audiences
Steady change

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Mark Mulligan, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston

February 2022

Radio

radio audiences

music radio

This report is the first preview of our new research vertical for Audio, to be formally launched later this year. : Podcasts reinvigorated the audio market, bringing with it the promise of a ‘Netflix...

From marketing to monetisation
The games video opportunity for games companies

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Karol Severin

February 2022

YouTube

Twitch

facebook gaming

Games-related video consumption is now as big as established TV and video genres. Despite games companies providing the fuel for the games video sector (i.e., games experiences, processed into content...

TV internationalisation 2.0
Video is disrupting commissioning and turbo-charging international hits

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Tim Mulligan

February 2022

Video

Discovery

video streaming services

Streaming has empowered niche appeal shows to find global audiences on a scale comparable with analogue-era prime time domestic audiences. Niche is the new mainstream. For the first time a global hit is...

NFTs and entertainment
Opportunity assessment

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Karol Severin

January 2022

Games

mobile games

Epic Games

NFTs are taking the media and entertainment worlds by storm, but we are still, arguably, in early-adoption stages. The media and supply-side frenzy is kicking in, posing more noise and challenge for companies...

Video discovery
The new streaming battleground

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Tim Mulligan

January 2022

Video

Discovery

Amazon

Now that video streaming consumer activity is mainstream (Netflix WAU is currently at 59%), the challenge is for video to maintain its dominance over competing media formats. At the heart of all this is...

Hybrid futures
MIDiA 2022 predictions

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Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

January 2022

Social media

Business Strategy

MIDiA Research Predictions

MIDiA analysts dive into our 2022 predictions, and why we believe it will be ' the year of the creator '. Watch the webinar here ....

Fandom drivers
From fan psychology to NFT demand

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Mark Mulligan, Karol Severin, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano

January 2022

superfan

Spotify

merchandise

Fandom is entertainment’s growth currency, yet it remains both under-valued and poorly understood. While other entertainment currencies can be accurately measured (number of streams, number of sales,...

Gamer consumer deep dive Q3 2021

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Karol Severin

December 2021

Gaming

Games

mobile games

About this report: This report presents a deep dive into gamers across five areas: Gamer segments Console owners Services and apps Games behaviours Entertainment behaviours Including more than fifty slides...

Video Consumer Snapshot Q3 2021
US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, Brazil

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Tim Mulligan

December 2021

Video

Online video

SVOD

Introduction: This slide deck presents consumer demand for video subscription services and streaming consumption, with detail for streaming services and video consumption preferences The data is pulled...

Fandom and lean-in culture are reshaping video

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Hanna Kahlert

December 2021

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

To compete in the new hyper-saturated attention economy, entertainment propositions must tap into audience sentiment to generate fandom and understand where they fit in the lives and habits of audiences....

2022 MIDiA predictions
The year of the creator

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Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

December 2021

Creators

Apple

Spotify

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 2022 and beyond....

Consolidation and retention
How D2C is now driving video M&A strategy

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Tim Mulligan

November 2021

Apple

Video

Amazon

The D2C big bang moment of 2019/2020 opened up a new offensive front for media majors as they competed with the communications and tech majors for streaming audience market share, which was previously...

Karaoke app user deep dive

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Mark Mulligan

November 2021

Streaming Music

apps

mobile apps

This report presents data concerning karaoke app users. This data is taken from MIDiA’s Q3 2021 consumer survey. The online survey comprised 9,000 respondents across the US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany,...

Indian sports consumer profiles
Indian urban sports fandom in Q3 2021

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Srishti Das

November 2021

Video

sports rights

live sports

This case study is partnered with the report “Beyond broadcast | How digital natives will reboot sports content monetisation”, accessible to subscribers here ....

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