Social Reports from MIDiA Research

Social 2.0
Social media’s survival of the fittest, and how marketers fit in

Ashleigh Millar

December 2022

The history of social media has long been defined by continual evolution and iteration, but now shifts across the value chain are becoming more substantive, heralding a new era. Social platforms themselves...

Lean-through listening
The impact of context on consumption and ad responsiveness

Hanna Kahlert

November 2022

Media and Marketing

This slidedeck features data from MIDiA’s Q3 2022 Consumer Survey, looking at segments ofmusic listeners, and their listening and discovery behaviours. This coversmusic services consumption, music video...

Social media marketing is becoming its own cultural moment

Hanna Kahlert and Ashleigh Millar

October 2022

Spotify

YouTube

Facebook

Audiences are changing the ways they interact with entertainment, as well as how they respond to advertising and marketing designed to promote it. Audiences are increasingly creative and engage in lean-through...

The shift indoors
Entertainment audiences’ search for the affordable and the meaningful

Hanna Kahlert

September 2022

Apple TV

Netflix

Disney

The Covid-19 entertainment boom is over; we are now in a highly competitive attention recession characterised largely by the attention inflation driven from accelerating rates of multitasking. This is...

Content is king, distribution is queen but retention is revolutionary

Tim Mulligan and Hanna Kahlert

September 2022

Free Report

Video

Music

Games

Retention is the new cornerstone of subscription in an era of accelerating disruption. On the 22nd of September, 2022, at 4:30 pm BST, MIDiA's lead video analyst, Tim Mulligan, will be joined by Nada Arnot,...

Lean-through consumption
Communities are key

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Hanna Kahlert

August 2022

Spotify

YouTube

Netflix

Entertainment consumption is increasingly shaped by context, as consumers are driven by attention saturation to overlap behaviours as well as choose between them. Different forms of entertainment are better...

Re-creating the creator economy

Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das, Kriss Thakrar, Ashleigh Millar, Tatiana Cirisano, Annie Langston and Richard Broadhurst

August 2022

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

Streaming first democratised the means of consumption, then distribution, and now production. Though the promise of the long tail may not have materialised quite as expected, long-tail and mid-tail creators...

The rise of the lean-through superfan
Post-Covid trends of UGC creation and entertainment

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Hanna Kahlert

July 2022

Twitch

Instagram

TikTok

The Covid-driven entertainment boom is over, with ‘in real life’ activities taking back ground from the 12% of additional time freed by lockdown measures. The attention crunch is compounded by a cost-of-living...

Advertising
Marketing in the era of lean through

Hanna Kahlert

June 2022

xbox

twitter

Twitch

Audiences have shifted, first towards the on-demand content delivery model, and now increasingly towards lean-in and lean-through engagement behaviours as a native part of consumption. Advertising strategy...

Social media user snapshot
Q1 2022

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Hanna Kahlert

May 2022

YouTube

Facebook

twitter

This report presents country-level snapshots into the social media usage, engagement habits, and ad tolerances of different social app users. It covers Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube,...

The Attention Recession
How inflation and the pandemic are reshaping entertainment

Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston

May 2022

Free Report

Video

Music

Games

With the recent announcement of the 0.2 million subscriber drop in Netflix’s Q1 2022 figures, and Spotify seeing slower paid user growth, MIDiA’s predicted attention recession has come into fruition....

Consumers as creators
The artist / audience line is blurring

Hanna Kahlert

April 2022

Consumer Behaviour

Apple

Netflix

The growing independent artists sector, the rise of user-generated content (UGC), and the proliferation of basic creator tools on social platforms are all interlinked parts of the same cultural trend:...

Profiling the social media footprint of niche entertainment audiences for Web 3

Hanna Kahlert

March 2022

social media

social media following

Audience Insight

Entertainment audiences are evolving, with digital-first habits – driven by both lockdowns and technology innovations – changing their relationship to the content they consume. Big hits are now just...

Cultural trends of 2022
A year of inflection points

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...

Hybrid futures
MIDiA 2022 predictions

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

January 2022

Free Report

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 ....

2022 MIDiA predictions
The year of the creator

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....

From social media to creator tools
The evolution of UGC

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Hanna Kahlert

September 2021

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

Entertainment is suffering intense competition as audience attention time, already saturated before the pandemic, is hit by the gradual return of ‘in real life’ activities. A flurry of new propositions...

The changing context of consumption
Emerging consumer trends in a re-saturated attention economy

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Hanna Kahlert

July 2021

Spotify

Amazon

Netflix

Rampant attention competition has driven changes in entertainment consumption itself, exacerbated by the last year’s attention boom. Quality of attention and quantity of attention are increasingly differentiated,...

Ad strategy in a digital-first environment
Rethinking acceptance, tolerance and effectiveness

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Hanna Kahlert

June 2021

Spotify

YouTube

Soundcloud

Digital-first behaviours and the proliferation of choice have caused underlying changes to how consumers perceive and respond to brands. Brand loyalty has been replaced by content fandom. Frictionless...

Social media reboot
The rise of social 2.0 and the emancipation of the digital native

Hanna Kahlert

April 2021

Innovation

YouTube

Social media is entering a new phase of innovation. Facebook’s trio of applications, alongside Snapchat, Twitter and other incumbents, still have market dominance. However, the rapid growth of TikTok,...

Reports: Social