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Read our latest daily deep dives, hot takes, and exciting updates about the entertainment world. Check out the latest insight from your favourite analyst, or search by coverage areas - music, entertainment and fandom, creator economy and social.

Why Spotify cannot afford to make it three out of three with podcasts

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Mark Mulligan

10 Feb 2022

It has been a couple of weeks that Spotify would be glad to forget – if it could. Although many of the arguments have been emotionally charged and the debate says as much about people’s political beliefs as it does business strategy, it is indisputable that there is a lot at stake for Spotify.

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The music industry (still) has a culture problem

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Hanna Kahlert

10 Feb 2022

Media and Marketing

2022 is set to be a year of great change (and consolidation of change) in entertainment and beyond . However, some things, it seems, have stayed the same. Last month, Rolling Stone reported that nine out of the 10 highest-paid musicians in 2021 were men.

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Artists survey 2022 - MIDiA asks music creators: how will you grow your audiences, earnings and career?

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Keith Jopling

8 Feb 2022

Music streaming

Content Creators

As the music industry continues to debate the many pros and cons of ‘the streaming era’ (while enjoying the unprecedented industry growth that it has brought), the spotlight can sometimes move away from those artists and songwriters who make a living from music but are not the big stars or household names that we know and read about in the news.

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From binging to burnout: the creator economy’s fault line

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Mark Mulligan

8 Feb 2022

Cultural trends

The streaming revolution has been built upon audience choice and control, replacing linear with on-demand and in turn opening whole new consumption paradigms. No user behaviour better encapsulates this shift than binge watching, which is done by 60% of video subscribers.

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Why the market has already solved the Danish “Netflix tax” local content focus

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Tim Mulligan

8 Feb 2022

A planned piece of legislation being introduced by Denmark is poised to have a wide-ranging impact on the future of localised streaming content. The so-called “Netflix tax” will be levied upon the operating companies that are delivering commercial video streaming subscription services in the Scandinavian country.

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The ‘attention recession’ just showed its teeth to Facebook – and took a $200bn bite

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Karol Severin

3 Feb 2022

peak attention economy

For the first time in its 18-year existence, Meta reported a drop in daily active users from 1.930 billion to 1.929 billion. This is the ‘attention recession’ we at MIDiA have been warning about since Covid broke out.

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Climate crisis awareness is entwined with entertainment behaviour

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Hanna Kahlert

2 Feb 2022

Media and Marketing

Audience Insight

Despite the barrage of high-profile news items featuring so far in 2022, the climate crisis remains the high-stakes backdrop to our global future. MIDiA Research recently fielded a survey asking about consumers’ climate-conscious behaviours, cross-segmented against their normal entertainment proclivities – and some of the findings are surprising.

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ABC’s local news commitment adds to the building momentum of news streaming

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Tim Mulligan

1 Feb 2022

ABC, a US broadcast subsidiary of Disney, is launching new live local news streaming channels from its existing broadcast station in a number of major local markets within the US. The new channels range from ABC7 New York to ABC7 Los Angeles and will feature local news, as well as exclusive local ABC content.

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When will we reach peak subscription?

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Tatiana Cirisano

31 Jan 2022

Creator economy

Earlier this month, Instagram and TikTok both began testing subscription models where users offer their followers paid access to exclusive content, following in the footsteps of platforms like Twitch, Patreon, Twitter and Facebook.

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The games video opportunity for games companies

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Karol Severin

27 Jan 2022

games streamers

Traditionally, games companies predominantly used games video for marketing purposes. This made perfect sense in the era of unit sales and early-adoption stages of games-related video. Today, 30% of console gamers view games-related videos every month.

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Spotify chose audio over music, but bigger decisions lie ahead

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Mark Mulligan

27 Jan 2022

The symbolism behind Spotify’s support of Neil Young removing his music from the platform, rather than Joe Rogan’s podcast being removed for peddling vaccine misinformation was inescapable. For many, this was a highly public test of whether Spotify put audio or music first, and audio won.

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Unpacking music royalty investment NFTs

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Tatiana Cirisano

26 Jan 2022

Streaming Music

Last Thursday, a Royal NFT drop allowing fans to purchase a share in the streaming royalties of two Nas songs sold out within minutes. The drop was delayed by a week after high demand crashed Royal’s site, signaling potential for the concept of fans and artists co-owning music rights.

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Why it is becoming more difficult to acquire video subscribers for Netflix in 2022

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Tim Mulligan

25 Jan 2022

Netflix Q4 21 earnings

Last Thursday’s Q4 earnings result for Netflix was badly received. This was despite the strong financial results, which announced that the year-on-year revenues were up by 19.2%, reaching $29.5 billion (an 18.

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Why Instagram is climbing aboard the subscription bandwagon

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Ashleigh Millar

21 Jan 2022

Meta has announced that, following the success that came from its ‘fan subscriptions’ (now called ‘Subscriptions’) trial in June 2020, it will be testing the subscription model on Instagram via a select number of US-based creators.

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Quick take: Gunna’s triumph over The Weeknd is all about moving the culture

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Tatiana Cirisano

20 Jan 2022

Media and Marketing

For the past week, hip-hop Twitter was buzzing with debate. The Weeknd and Gunna both released surprise albums on 7thJanuary: Dawn FM and DS4EVER , respectively. So, whose album would come out on top? Though The Weeknd is the bigger household name, the two artists’ rollout strategies were remarkably similar.

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Acquiring Activision is Microsoft’s big bang in games

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Karol Severin

19 Jan 2022

Only last week we wrote about Take-Two acquiring Zynga for $12.7 billion in what was the largest games acquisition in history. But that was last week. This week, that record is beaten more than five-fold, thanks to Microsoft acquiring Activision for an eye-watering $68.

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Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021

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Mark Mulligan

18 Jan 2022

subscriber market shares

streaming market shares

MIDiA’s annual music subscriber market shares report is now available here (see below for more details of the report). Here are some of the key findings. The global base of music subscribers continues to grow strongly with 523.

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Why Netflix is leveraging golf and tennis to retain its digital entertainment dominance

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Tim Mulligan

18 Jan 2022

commissioning strategy

In an era of rapid change in the entertainment world, one thing remains constant: the power of compelling storytelling. Stories come in many shapes and forms, and, traditionally, sports have dominated live TV’s entertainment offering to consumers.

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Hybrid futures: What 2022 has in store for digital entertainment

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Hanna Kahlert

13 Jan 2022

Every year, MIDiA puts out its predictions for what the next 12 months (and beyond) have in store for digital entertainment. Last year – the year of the immersive web , we had an 84% success rate, giving readers a head start on 2021 and guiding us in our analysis throughout the year.

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How relevant are awards in the age of Spotify Wrapped?

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Keith Jopling

12 Jan 2022

Are awards ceremonies relevant in today's entertainment landscape? The widespread boycott by major movie stars of this year’s Golden Globes is more than a temporary protest and will lead to a major period of re-evaluation for award shows in film, music and across all entertainment formats.

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