Reports: subscription video on demand

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

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Tim Mulligan

December 2021

Online video

SVOD

SVOD subscriptions

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 from MIDiA’s Q3 2021 Consumer Survey fielded in the US, UK, Australia,...

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

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Tim Mulligan

November 2021

Apple

Amazon

Streaming video

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 lost to the SVOD insurgents. Pureplay media players responded via defensive consolidation and / or selling themselves to more motivated competitors.

Video Consumer Snapshot Q2 2021
US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, Brazil

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Tim Mulligan

October 2021

Streaming

Video

Streaming video

This slide deck presents consumer demand for video subscription services and streaming consumption, with detail for streaming services and video consumption preferences. The data in this deck is pulled from MIDiA’s Q2 2021 Consumer Survey that was fielded in US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea and Brazil.

Sports Consumption
Measuring COVID-19’s Impact

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Alistair Taylor

July 2020

Apple

Discovery

Amazon

With the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports creating an entertainment void for sports fans, understanding COVID-19’s impact on overall sports consumption and where audiences are substituting their finite attention is paramount for sports distributors and rights holders.

Video Consumer Survey
Country Snapshots

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Tim Mulligan

March 2020

Consumer behaviour

Subscriptions

Video

Video consumer survey country snapshots for US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, Sweden, France, Italy, Netherlands and Mexico.

US and UK Sports Fans
Reaching Digital Natives

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Alistair Taylor

December 2019

YouTube

Amazon

revenue

Sports as a product is feeling the squeeze of the peak attention economy. Sports fans in the traditional sense are ageing, and appealing to a younger digitally-native audience is a fundamental issue that rights holders can no longer ignore. Sports rights holders have realised the importance of their virtual (gaming) counterparts, acknowledging that...

Sports Fans Consumer Trends 2019

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Alistair Taylor

August 2019

subscribers

Netflix

Audience engagement

Sports-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) services have largely struggled to entice subscribers, based on their current value propositions which consist mainly of niche rights. Pay-TV has the lion’s share of premium domestic sports rights, providing it with an advantageous set of assets partially justifying premium-priced contracts for i...

2019-2021
Emerging New Metrics for Sports Streaming Success

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Alistair Taylor

June 2019

Streaming

Apple

Amazon

The clock is ticking down to 2021 when the major domestic sports rights in the US and the UK will start coming up for renewal. Thus far, pureplay sports streaming video on demand (SVOD) services such as DAZN and Eleven Sports have experienced mixed fortunes.

Sports SVOD Services Deep Dive

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Alistair Taylor

May 2019

Apple

Spotify

Amazon

Sports-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) services have entered international markets, looking to capture digital-native audiences from pay-TV and other established SVOD services. Eleven Sports’ demise in the UK provides the best case study for how streaming services can struggle when entering a market with insufficient rights offerings.

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 the secular nature of the phenomenon. However, this is not simply a story of decline but instead one of transition, with streaming growing ...

Sports Viewing 2018
SVOD Taking Over?

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Alistair Taylor

January 2019

Willingness to pay

Spotify

Discovery

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 sports rights. Against this backdrop, sports viewing in Q3 2018 was largely one of stagnation, remaining flat at 38%, while free streaming declined.

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 expanding streaming market. However, the real story behind cord cutting is not how many people are doing it, but who is doing it.

TV Fandom Q2 2018
SVOD Audiences Become Mainstream

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Alistair Taylor

November 2018

Consumer behaviour

US

UK

TV fandom underpins viewing across all platforms and territories, but is being reshaped by streaming, with audiences having much greater control over what they watch. This choice-led viewing provides the foundations for deeper degrees of audience fandom, but also the diminishment of more passive audience elements.

The Sports Video Landscape
Sports Streaming Services in a Digital First Ecosystem

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Alistair Taylor

July 2018

Consumer behaviour

Amazon

Amazon

The 13.2% dip on the 2019–2022 English Premier League (EPL) rights deals compared to the 2015-2018 deal highlighted the decline in value for sports broadcast rights. In light of this downturn and a fall in the consumption of sports content on traditional linear TV, moves are being made into the subscription video on demand (SVOD) space, with Disn...

US Video Market Overview
SVOD Grows The Pay-TV Market

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Tim Mulligan

January 2017

US

Streaming video

SVOD

The US continues to dominate global video trends as the world’s most valuable online video market. The video audience continues to experience strong growth fueled by a combination of increased technological sophistication of the addressable market and increased engagement of existing users.