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State of the YouTube Music Economy 2.0
A Turning Point for All Parties

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Mark Mulligan

August 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify

This report is now into its second edition, updating the most comprehensive YouTube music dataset ever compiled in order to present all sides of the argument in an objective and impartial manner. The report...

Spotify Q2 2018 Earnings
More Needed from Emerging Markets and Ad Supported

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Mark Mulligan

July 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify’s Q2 2018 earnings show continued solid progress across most of its performance metrics. However, investor scrutiny is intensifying, especially with the growing subscriber arms race in the US...

Emerging Music Markets
Streaming’s Third Wave

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Mark Mulligan

July 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

Music Subscriptions

With streaming growth set to slow in mature western markets by 2019, the next wave of fast growth will come from a mixture of mid-tier markets such as Mexico, Brazil, Japan and Germany. Beyond that, the...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q1 2018

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Mark Mulligan

June 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker, a survey fielded in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour evolved...

Tech Majors Market Shares Q1 2018
Advertising and Subscriptions Power Growth

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Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

June 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Apple

In Q1 2018 advertising revenue and services revenue drove strong growth for the tech majors – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, with Alphabet and Apple retaining their respective leads in each of those...

Tencent Tech Investment
Pursuing Aggressive Growth in the West

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Alistair Taylor

May 2018

Streaming

Spotify

revenue

Tencent, currently the fifth most valuable public company in the world, saw income from ‘other gains’ increase in Q4 2017 by 800% on Q4 2016 figures, going $149.6 million to $1.2 billion. These other...

India and China Media Trends 2018

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Zach Fuller

May 2018

Streaming

Spotify

Saavn

China and India are undergoing significant change in their media industries. Both countries are viewed as two of the world’s potentially most lucrative economies for digital content, based upon their...

2018 India SVOD Consumer Deep Dive

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Tim Mulligan

May 2018

Streaming

Hungama

Netflix

India has seen a dramatic rise in engagement with premium video services, fuelled by a combination of mass adoption of mobile technology and rapidly rising disposable incomes. However, India’s SVOD market...

Spotify Q1 2018 Earnings
Steady Course But Is It Enough?

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Mark Mulligan

May 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

On the 2 May 2018 Spotify released its first quarterly earnings. The results fundamentally represent a continuation of the figures presented in Spotify’s F1 filing and show strong results across most...

Tencent Has Outgrown China
Now Comes The Next Phase of Growth

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Alistair Taylor

April 2018

Streaming

Spotify

Amazon

Following the release of its fourth quarter earnings, Tencent is the first Chinese company to achieve a market capitalisation of over $500 billion, displacing Facebook as fifth most valuable global company....

2018 China SVOD Consumer Deep Dive

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Tim Mulligan

April 2018

Streaming

YouTube

Netflix

The global subscription video on demand (SVOD) market is dominated in subscriber terms by the US and China, with both markets accounting for the majority of global users. However, beyond sharing scale...

Recorded Music Market 2017
Streaming Accelerating Growth

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Mark Mulligan

April 2018

music sales

Streaming

Streaming Music

Recorded music revenues are booming and the distribution end of the value chain is both vibrant and competitive. This has not been the case for many, many years. Streaming is on course to become the main...

Making and Marketing an Artist
Streaming Rewrites the Rules, Again

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Mark Mulligan

April 2018

labels

Streaming

Streaming Music

Marketing is one of the core competencies of record labels. The rise of the internet and social media transformed label marketing strategies. Now streaming is turning everything upside down again. The...

Discovery and Measurement
Challenges For Content Producers In The SVOD Era

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Tim Mulligan

March 2018

Streaming

Apple

Amazon

Streaming video consumption continues to accelerate, still adding users in more mature markets and expanding at pace in emerging markets. Though the mix of value propositions and business models is diverse,...

Home Entertainment
Streaming is Eclipsing Legacy Behaviour of Consumers

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Tim Mulligan

February 2018

Streaming

bluray

viacom

Home entertainment primarily consisting of DVD, Blu-ray and Electronic sell-through (EST) was a necessary content delivery experience. It enabled the movie business to participate in the first stages of...

Content Bubbles and Streaming Peaks
Media And Tech Trends That Will Shape 2018 And Beyond

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Mark Mulligan

February 2018

Innovation

Streaming

Apple

This report is a write up of key themes from one of MIDiA’s 2018 keynotes looking at the key trends, innovations and disruptions that will shape media and technology over the coming years. The full presentation...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q4 2017

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Mark Mulligan

January 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker. The survey is fielded in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour evolved...

Playlisting and the Demographic Destiny of Streaming

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Zach Fuller

January 2018

Streaming

Spotify

YouTube

With playlists representing streaming’s lingua franca, the dramatic shifts in consumption they are powering are rewriting the rule books on music marketing, music formats and revenue generation, all...

Streaming Peaks
What Playlist And Binge-Watching Trends Signify For Streaming

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Mark Mulligan

December 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

YouTube

Streaming is transforming music and video consumption, creating new business models and behaviours. 2017 was a strong year for both sectors but growth is not uniformly distributed. Video subscriptions...

The Top TV Shows Of 2017
Netflix Steals A March

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Tim Mulligan

December 2017

Streaming

US

UK

With TV content audiences becoming ever more fragmented and streaming services guarded with their metrics, understanding the appeal of TV shows has never been more complicated. In this report, we present...

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