Reports: Vevo

Attention inflation
How multitasking is reshaping the attention economy

Karol Severin and Perry Gresham

August 2022

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

Entertainment hours are up, but consumption is becoming diluted and losing focus, and is increasingly in the background of other activities. Audiences want to consume more but have no more time to allocate;...

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Music IP as video content
Why music fandom is strategically important for D2C

Tim Mulligan

July 2022

Spotify

Video

Vevo

Music rightsholders are keen to leverage artist IP in an increasingly competitive direct-to-consumer video landscape, where appealing to silver streamers is a strategic play to minimise churn in an era...

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Esports viewers update
A valuable segment with a (solvable) growth problem

Richard Broadhurst

May 2022

Vevo

Facebook

twitter

Esports currently struggle to attract consumers beyond esports enthusiasts and players of esport-centric titles. Despite growth problems, the esports viewer segment remains valuable. These consumers have...

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State of the YouTube Music Economy 3.0 -
End of the Beginning

Mark Mulligan

October 2020

Spotify

YouTube

YouTube

This is the third bi-annual report of its kind, providing the most comprehensive view available of the YouTube music economy. It presents data for revenues, royalty payments, streams, subscribers, user...

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COVID-19
The Self-Isolation Entertainment Boom

Mark Mulligan

April 2020

Free Report

Streaming

Spotify

artists

Following our first COVID-19 impact report, this report deep dives into how media consumption patterns have changed in the initial weeks of COVID-19 dislocation. While it is crucial to remember that these...

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One Billion-Plus YouTube Music Videos
Latin Takeover

Mark Mulligan

April 2019

Spotify

YouTube

YouTube

  While rightsholders and YouTube fought a bitter war of words around Article 13 in 2018, the platform further underscored its importance for creating global superstars. With audiences fragmenting...

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Latin America Streaming Music Market
YouTube and Spotify Take Hold

Leo Morel

March 2019

Streaming

Streaming Music

iTunes

  Latin America has fast become one of the most important streaming music markets due to accelerating consumer adoption, growing smartphone ownership, strong streaming service availability and fast-growing...

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Radio 2018
Streaming’s Continuing Impact

Mark Mulligan

October 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify

This is a 2018 update to MIDiA’s 2017 report exploring the impact of streaming on radio audiences. The underlying data comes from MIDiA’s quarterly consumer tracker which was first fielded in Q4 2016....

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Pandora
Mapping Its Place in the US Streaming Market

Mark Mulligan

September 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

Apple

Pandora is the granddaddy of streaming music, clocking 10 million active users before Spotify had even gone into public beta. It remains the most widely used audio streaming service in the US, but is no...

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

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...

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Radio Is Streaming’s Next Frontier
How Streaming Will Disrupt Radio Like It Did Retail

Mark Mulligan

November 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

Apple

Streaming’s first achievement was becoming a long-term successor to retail, now it has its sights set on doing the same to radio. Even though the revenue per user is much smaller, the addressable market...

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State Of The Streaming Nation 2.1 (Mid-Year 2017 Update)
The Definitive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market

Mark Mulligan

October 2017

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

2016 was the year that streaming turned the recorded music business into a good news story, with revenue growth so strong that it drove nearly a billion dollars of total growth. Leading streaming services...

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Brazil Streaming Music Market
Breaking The Mould

Mark Mulligan

June 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

music bundles

The successful markets in the traditional music industry were those with highest levels of consumer spending. It was an industry biased towards North America and Europe. Part of the transformative potential...

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State Of The Streaming Nation 2
The Definitive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market

Mark Mulligan

May 2017

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

2016 was the year that streaming turned the recorded music business into a good news story, with revenue growth so strong that it drove nearly a billion dollars of total growth. Leading streaming services...

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Streaming Music Growth
How The S-Curve Will Determine Growth

Mark Mulligan

April 2017

Consumer Behaviour

Streaming

Streaming Music

Streaming music drove trade revenues of $5.4 billion in 2016, up 57% from $3.5 billion in 2015 while music subscribers grew from 68.5 million to 106.3 million over the same period. The rate at which the...

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State Of The YouTube Music Economy
Growing Tensions As Worldviews Collide

Mark Mulligan

July 2016

Streaming

Streaming Music

YouTube

YouTube is the music platform of choice for Millennials and Gen Z and is by far the most widely used streaming service on the planet. But YouTube and music rights holders have never been the closest of...

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On Demand In Demand
Meeting The Needs Of The On Demand Fan

Mark Mulligan

June 2015

Subscriptions

Streaming

US

2014 was undoubtedly streaming’s biggest year yet, growing by 39% and accounting for nearly a third of all digital revenues. But the market is a long distance yet from being in a position where it can...

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