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The Instagram shop: The case for ecommerce diversification and tech major dismantling

Georgia Meyer

14 Sep 2018

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The Verge recently reported rumours that Facebook is building a standalone Instagram app for shopping. Whilst this news is as yet unconfirmed by Instagram, it would seem a logical next step given Facebook’s recent innovations to evolve the current Instagram product into a seamless site for ecommer...

Why go90 Is Where It Is

Tim Mulligan

2 Feb 2017

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18 months is a long time in the digital world. In that time, Facebook’s Messenger and Whatsapp both passed the billion monthly active users milestone and Snapchat has more than trebled its video engagement to account for 32% of all short form video views.

MIDiA’s 2016 Predictions – Here’s How We Did

Mark Mulligan

21 Nov 2016

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Part of our job here at MIDiA Research is to help our clients ‘look round the corner’ and see what disruptions and innovations are likely to impact their businesses. In short, our job is to help understand what the future holds.

Chart Of The Week: Mobile App Discovery

Mark Mulligan

10 May 2016

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Mobile apps are the defining characteristic of the smartphone era and revenue and adoption both continue to boom. A growing marketplace of companies is evolving to help mobile app companies manage the life cycle of their users across the app funnel, from acquisition, through conversion to retention.

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MIDiA Predictions 2016: Video Eats The World

Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2015

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With 2015 rapidly drawing to a close we have taken the opportunity to present the big trends that MIDiA Research believes will shape digital content and media in 2016. The entire findings are available exclusivelyto MIDiA subscribers in the report: “MIDiA Research Predictions, 2016: Video Eats The...

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Why Reddit Has To Get Mobile Right

Karol Severin

15 Dec 2015

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Reddit has had a tough time going mobile. Their initial attempt at an official app failed in 2011. Since then, a plethora of independent Reddit apps emerged, capturing a part of Reddit’s potential mobile audience.

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: The Mobile App Funnel

Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2015

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App companies lose users and revenue right across the user acquisition and retention process. Thus as the global app market grows the amount of lost revenue accelerates also. MIDiA’s app funnel analysis reveals just where on the customer life cycle users are lost, why they go and provides industry...

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MIDiA Datapoint Of The Day: Mobile Music Piracy

Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2015

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One thing you'll often hear cited in defence of streaming is that it has helped kill piracy. On the surface that might be seem to be true given that music P2P penetration is down. But all is not as it seems.

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Google Search Lets Users Stream In-App Content: Impacts And Threats

Karol Severin

27 Nov 2015

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Google Search made two significant steps last week. Firstly, it can now search app-only content. Secondly, Google started to test streaming in-app content from the cloud, without the apps having to be installed on users phones.

The Vision Behind Today’s DisneyLife Launch

Tim Mulligan

23 Nov 2015

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Today marks the launch of DisneyLife in the UK. This is Disney’s new app –based subscription video on demand service. The launch represents a significant development in the evolution of the global content provider which has been the forefront of so much story-telling innovation and looks set to ...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Mobile App Buyers

Mark Mulligan

16 Nov 2015

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78% of mobile app revenue is concentrated in 26% of app buyers with the majority of that revenue driven by in-app purchases. These ‘whales’ are the beating heart of the mobile app economy but their small number means that they make precarious foundations for the market.

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MIDiA Research Chart Of The Week: Global Mobile App Buyers 2013 To 2020

Mark Mulligan

27 Oct 2015

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The mobile app economy is one of the success stories of the paid content marketplace generating $25 billion in global revenue in 2014. But paid users are a distinct minority. For the mobile app economy’s giants such as Supercell and KING.

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MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: App Buyers

Mark Mulligan

23 Oct 2015

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Spending money on or in apps is a niche activity. The majority (58%) of that niche is aged between 25-34 years old. The age distribution will however become more even in the upcoming years. Younger consumers who adopted app spending will grow older.

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How Telcos Could Become Gatekeepers Of Mobile Advertising

Karol Severin

12 Oct 2015

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Digicel in Jamaica is the first mobile network operator to roll out ad blocking of web and in-and app advertisement across it’s entire network as a default purchase option. If this scales across global operators, it will have significant implications to the whole mobile advertising industry.

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day

Mark Mulligan

8 Oct 2015

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The challenge of choice abundance: consumers have little need or opportunity to develop affinity with individual apps. 34% of 18-24 year olds delete apps within one month of downloading them. Source: MIDiA...

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