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Video creator tools
Hardware user profile

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Ben Woods

September 2024

Product Strategy

The democratisation of video creation has created an unprecedented opportunity for hardware tools companies. However, converting casual creators and beginners into high spenders is difficult given the...

Music creator survey
Recalibration

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Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

September 2024

Audience Insight

The music creator economy has been slowly developing but was thrust into the spotlight by a surge of new creators during the Covid lockdowns. As with any bubble, it eventually burst; many creator tools...

O mercado brasileiro de música
Rumo ao estrelato

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Leo Morel and Tatiana Cirisano

September 2024

Business Strategy

Grande parte da população do Brasil adotou o streaming como formato de consumo musical. Atualmente, ele é o principal formato de consumo do país, correspondente a 82% de sua receita de música gravada....

Brazil music market
Ready for prime time

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Tatiana Cirisano and Leo Morel

September 2024

Business Strategy

Brazil’s large, youthful population has fully embraced streaming. It is now the country’s top consumption format and the source of 82% of its recorded music revenue. This is helping Brazilians’ strong...

Q2 2024 music metrics
Bifurcation is here

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Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

September 2024

Business Strategy

This report presents MIDiA consumer data for key music consumer behaviours and company financials for Q2 2024. Consumer data covered includes, streaming app usage, music behaviour, and streaming activities....

Analogue revival
A cultural pendulum swing

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Hanna Kahlert

September 2024

Cultural trends

From the dumb phone trend to a vinyl revival, analogue has been back on the rise in the cultural zeitgeist. This could shake up the digital ecosystem and unlock potential opportunities for entertainment...

From casual listeners to podcast purists
Mapping podcast platform preferences

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Rutger Rosenborg

September 2024

Audience Insight

Consolidation has arrived in audio. As some tech companies turn to a multi-format strategy to keep users engaged, it becomes more difficult for single-format platforms to compete for the same subscriber...

Video creator tools
Software user profile

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Ben Woods

August 2024

Product Strategy

Creator economy

The video creator software market is evolving fast. AI tools are carving out new workflows, and the democratisation of video creation is increasing demand from social video creators and professional videographers....

The ‘why’ and ‘what’ behind in-game spending

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Karol Severin

August 2024

Audience Insight

As the games industry matures and global games revenue growth slows down, in-game spending will remain one of the industry’s key growth drivers. Historically, in-game spending was mostly associated with...

French music consumer user profile
Unlocking fandom

Tatiana Cirisano

August 2024

Audience Insight

This report presents MIDiA consumer data for key music behaviours of French consumers. Key data and insights in this report: Monthly music streaming behaviours of French consumers Listening habits of French...

Songwriters take the stage
A new playbook for a new era

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Tatiana Cirisano and Fernanda Balzaretti

July 2024

Streaming

Spotify

music industry

The streaming era upended the already-fraught business of being a songwriter, pushing songwriters to secure new revenue streams and better deal terms. While the recorded music industry has responded to...

High tide raises all ships
Leveraging the cultural tidal wave of Grand Theft Auto VI

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Rhys Elliott

July 2024

Audience Insight

Grand Theft Auto VI ( GTA 6 ), due to be released in autumn 2025, is on track to be one of the biggest entertainment launches of all time. It will capture a significant amount of consumer attention. Marketers...

MIDiA Research 2024-2031 global music publishing forecasts
Managed change

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Mark Mulligan

July 2024

Business Strategy

Thus far, the 2020s has been a good decade for the music publishing industry. Revenues have continued to grow, streaming royalty rates have improved – spurred by favourable royalty rates board rulings...

Audio psychographics
Understanding why people listen

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Rutger Rosenborg

July 2024

Audience Insight

With so much content competing for consumers' attention, it is not enough to just give them ways to spend their limited resources (time and money). Audio companies must also give consumers reasons to do...

Entertainment behaviour
The frequency factor

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Mark Mulligan

July 2024

Audience Insight

This report presents a holistic view of entertainment behaviour for music, video, games, social, and audio. Traditionally, entertainment services report users in terms of monthly, and occasionally weekly...

Social platform user behaviour
Q1 2024

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Hanna Kahlert

July 2024

Marketing Strategy

The social platform marketplace is mature, with user growth stabilising, and the established platforms now fiercely competing for shares of a finite amount of available time. This report analyses the behaviours...

The state of the video creator economy
Creativity in a streamlined world

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Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Ben Woods

July 2024

Business Strategy

Creator economy

The video creator tools industry is primed for turbo-charged growth as artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates the consumerisation of creation. While the opportunity is significant, a considered approach...

Bigger is not always better
Premium gaming’s AA opportunity

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Rhys Elliott

July 2024

Business Strategy

Following the post-pandemic slowdown of global games revenue growth, cost-cutting measures are now in full force. However, games continue to grow in scope and length with budgets often exceeding hundreds...

The state of music AI
The consumer opportunity lies in modification, not generation

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Tatiana Cirisano and Hanna Kahlert

June 2024

Consumer behaviour

music industry

music publishing

MIDiA previously predicted that generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) would accelerate music’s “Instagram moment”, where consumers could create and remix music as easily and often as they post...

Video churn
Streaming TV’s cord-cutting moment

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Tim Mulligan

June 2024

Business Strategy

Global subscriber growth is maturing while incomes are becoming constrained and alternatives to streaming TV are proliferating. For the first time in the history of subscription video on demand (SVOD),...

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