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DSP user profiles
Small is beautiful

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Mark Mulligan

November 2022

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

With streaming music now in its mature growth stage in most leading music markets, differentiation will be key to unlocking further growth pockets. While this will likely require innovation in both product...

Games marketing bundle
Available for a limited time

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Karol Severin and Sam Griffin

November 2022

This bundle contains three of our most recent games marketing reports, providing you with a wide selection of insights and content from our analysts. Take this opportunity to get some of our most recent...

Games strategy bundle
Available for a limited time

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Karol Severin and Sam Griffin

November 2022

This bundle contains three of our most recent games strategy reports, providing you with a wide selection of insights and content from our analysts. Take this opportunity to get some of our most recent...

Video reports bundle
Available for a limited time

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Tim Mulligan and Ben Woods

November 2022

This bundle contains three of our most recent video reports, providing you with a wide selection of insights and content from our analysts. Take this opportunity to get some of our most recent data at...

Unlocking the saturation conundrum
Key video trends going into 2023

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Tim Mulligan, Hanna Kahlert, Sam Griffin and Ben Woods

November 2022

A key challenge confronting the video streaming landscape in the current attention inflation era is maintaining engagement. Up until now, video streaming has been fixated on growth. In a saturated marketplace...

From video hardware to entertainment hardware
The gamer opportunity for smart TVs

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Tim Mulligan

November 2022

Video

smart tvs

SVOD

Smart-TV-owning gamers skew older and combine increased consumption spend with an increased willingness to pay for content and entertainment more broadly. Smart-TV owners over-index for games consumption...

Social media marketing is becoming its own cultural moment

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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...

Streaming’s next growth phase
The necessity of differentiation

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Tatiana Cirisano

October 2022

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

DSPs have long been able to grow their subscriber bases despite all offering essentially the same experience. Yet the freemium model is reaching a saturation point, putting slow but steady pressure on...

After digital
The search for a cheaper cultural moment

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Hanna Kahlert

October 2022

Spotify

Pandora

Soundcloud

Audiences are becoming ever-more creative and this proclivity will come into its own over the coming period of economic, social, and political turbulence. To reconnect with each other while conserving...

Podcast market value chain
The next investment is the listeners

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Annie Langston

October 2022

creators

Apple

Spotify

Investments from major audience platforms in audio infrastructure, such as hosting platforms and advertising, kickstarted the growth of the podcast market. With the basic infrastructure now in place, it...

Entertainment spending by game genre fans Q2 2022

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Karol Severin

October 2022

This report presents a snapshot of entertainment spending behaviours by fans of specific games genres. It includes the following games genre fan segments: Action games fans First-person shooter (FPS) fans...

Friction TV
Addressing the user experience disconnect in streaming TV

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Tim Mulligan

October 2022

Apple

Video

Netflix

Streaming TV is now the default way to consume TV content. However, the streaming TV era is now the friction TV era, due to the fragmented nature of the direct-to-consumer (D2C) siloed, competing brands....

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

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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...

Video consumer snapshot Q2 2022

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Tim Mulligan

September 2022

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 is pulled from MIDiA’s...

State of the music creator economy
Post-lockdown growth

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Mark Mulligan, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

September 2022

Apple

Spotify

live

The Covid pandemic created a unique catalyst for the music creator economy. More time on hands and more cash in pockets gave novices and veterans alike the opportunity to spend both more time and money...

Games’ cultural role in the 2020s

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Karol Severin

September 2022

Games

Epic Games

Cultural Trends

Over time, games have carved out their role from the cultural fringes, through tobecoming a firmly established part of digital-consumer culture. Now, they have the opportunity to become theepicentreof...

Entertainment and the recession
How it will be impacted and how it should respond

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Mark Mulligan

September 2022

Spotify

Amazon

Netflix

The world is facing a period of change and disruption that is unprecedented in modern times. With so many interconnected dynamics across consumer spending, economic cycles, the climate, and even geo-politics,...

Radio audiences
A window of opportunity

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Mark Mulligan, Keith Jopling, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston

September 2022

Streaming Music

Spotify

Radio

Streaming claimed radio’s younger, music-focused audiences while podcasts are now beginning to do the same for older, spoken-word audiences. However, it is not yet determined that the impact needs to...

Content is king, distribution is queen but retention is revolutionary

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Tim Mulligan and Hanna Kahlert

September 2022

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,...

Hybrid shock
How ads will change SVOD

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Tim Mulligan

August 2022

Video

Amazon

Apple TV

The combined effects of market saturation for subscription video on demand (SVOD) alongside a growing cost-of-living crisis are forcing pureplay SVOD services to modify their ad-free propositions. Disney-owned...

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