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Netflix Q1 2017
International Picks Up The Slack

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Tim Mulligan

April 2017

Amazon

streaming subscriptions

Netflix

With Netflix on course to pass the psychologically significant 100 million subscriber mark, the company’s Q1 2017 quarterly earnings are particularly significant. With 43.2% of the global SVOD market...

The State Of The SVOD Nation 2017
Global SVOD Markets And Consumer Trends

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Tim Mulligan

April 2017

streaming subscriptions

emerging markets

SVOD

Despite the fear of an impending bubble bursting, Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) has never been in a stronger position globally. Although still dominated by the US as the largest market and as the...

Q4: 2016 Streaming Music Market Update
Competition Is Hotting Up

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Mark Mulligan

April 2017

Streaming

Spotify

YouTube

2015 was the year in which streaming music came of age but 2016 was the year when it hit the long anticipated milestone of 100 million subscribers, transforming the global recorded music business. 2016...

The Emergence Of The Always On Gamer
Profiling Console Owners

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Karol Severin

March 2017

Apple

Google

Apple TV

The game console owner segment is evolving fast. Still relatively young for now, console game fans are both aging and heading towards truly mainstream demographic distribution. Simultaneously, console...

Next Generation Networks
What A Post-Pay-TV Video Network Looks Like

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Tim Mulligan

March 2017

Apple

YouTube

Amazon

In the cord-cutting era TV networks are having to think about what life beyond the traditional pay-TV ecosystem might look like. With SVOD services snapping up audiences in their millions, operators are...

The Experience Economy
The Value Shift In Media Assets

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Zach Fuller

March 2017

Streaming

Apple

Spotify

With content now a more difficult proposition in itself to sell directly, the overall experience becomes, for many, their central core monetisable proposition. We have already seen this development in...

Recorded Music Market Shares
Streaming Drives Growth

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Mark Mulligan

February 2017

Spotify

Recorded music

Deezer

MIDiA has been tracking record label and publisher financial releases throughout 2016. In addition MIDIA has conducted market sizing work on the publishing sector and research for the Worldwide Independent...

Paid Versus Free
Monetisation In The Post-Sales World

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Zach Fuller

February 2017

Apple

Apple

Spotify

As the app economy matures into an amorphous content landscape, a picture emerges of how free and pure subscription models impact the bottom-line of the creative industries across music, online video,...

Live Entertainment
Measuring Music's Place

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Mark Mulligan

February 2017

Streaming Music

Spotify

live music

The live music industry has always had a slightly incongruous relationship with its recorded music industry cousin. Often having to tolerate the record labels’ business being called ‘the music industry’...

Mobile Gamer User Profile
Mobile Is The Unifying Factor For Gamers

Karol Severin

February 2017

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

Whatever your digital content proposition, mobile gamers comprise a significant share of your user base. The segment is not only important due to its sheer size and app economy value, but also because...

Mobile App Cross Usage
Music

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Karol Severin

February 2017

Streaming Music

streaming subscriptions

value proposition

Mobile app usage is defined by consumers engaging with a multitude of propositions, even when they serve a very similar purpose. Consumers often use multiple different messaging apps, video apps and music...

Streaming Music Pricing
Inelastic Stretching

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Mark Mulligan

February 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

streaming subscriptions

Pricing has long been an issue for streaming music subscriptions, with the $9.99 price point having the double challenge of reducing the spending of the most valuable music buyers and being higher than...

Fake News 2017
Social Media’s Coming of Age

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Zach Fuller

January 2017

Facebook

Social media

new media

By reaching the apex of cultural ubiquity, social media is being forced to answer questions it never imagined it would need to. Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Co.’s original missions could not have comprehended...

Overcoming VR Adoption Hurdles

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Zach Fuller

January 2017

Streaming

Radio

Paid Content

When it comes to disruptive technology, emerging formats such as Virtual Reality have been here before. The part about innovation that can so often omitted by uplifting TED lectures is that whilst these...

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...

Next Steps For Telco Music
The Revenue Or User Dilemma

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Mark Mulligan

December 2016

Streaming Music

Music Subscriptions

music bundles

Streaming’s early fortunes were intimately tied to telco music strategy, with the streaming services eager to piggy back telcos’ much larger marketing budgets and telcos equally keen to pursue marketplace...

Over 50 And Mobile
Profiling The Underserved Older Mobile Consumer

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Karol Severin

December 2016

mobile behaviour

50+ segment

50 year old

The over 50 segment has been one of the most neglected during the rise of mobile platforms, social media and digital entertainment. The neglect is understandable considering their well-earned reputation...

Facebook The Media Company
If It Looks Like A Duck

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Mark Mulligan

December 2016

Paid Content

Facebook

Content strategy

Facebook beat financial analyst estimates with its Q3 2016 earnings but announced that ad revenues would likely slow in 2017, due to the digital ad market feeling the pinch of advertiser budgets, which...

Facebook Messenger User Profile
Streaming Savvy Mainstream Messaging App Users

Karol Severin

December 2016

Facebook messenger

Mobile messaging

Messaging apps

Facebook Messenger has caught up with WhatsApp, boasting more than 1 billion Monthly Active Users (MAUs). Along with WhatsApp and Instagram, Messenger is part of Facebook’s bet on the future of audiences...

Next Generation Apps
The Rise Of Mobile Life Ecosystems

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Karol Severin

November 2016

app economy

next generation apps

mobile life ecosystems

The world of mobile is undergoing a seismic shift. It used to be that the smartphone platform world was largely understood in terms of a couple of big operating systems (iOS and Android) and their respective...

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