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Spotify and Netflix Are Experiencing Opposite User Engagement Trends

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Karol Severin

27 Mar 2018

listening hours

The latest Fuse data enables us to comparemonthly hours per MAU spent onSpotify and monthly hours per subscriber spent on Netflix over 2017. Interestingly they are travelling in opposite directions. Spotify & Netflix's Monthly Hours Of Engagement per MAU/Subscriber While Spotify’s monthly content hours per MAU increased from 19 to 25 in 2017, Netflix’s average monthly hours per subscriber decreased from 50 to 39.

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The Sports Bubble Has Finally Burst for The English Premier League

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Tim Mulligan

14 Feb 2018

English Premier League

Yesterday the English Premier League (EPL) announced the winners of its triennial domestic TV broadcast rights. As expected the two incumbent rights holders (Sky and BT) retained their privileges to cover the competition domestically.

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Facebook Has Got An Instagram Problem

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Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2018

Facebook messenger

Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bit of bombshell during the Q4 2017 earnings call. He announced that Facebook daily active users (DAUs) have fallen across some key markets, including the US. COO Sheryl Sandberg elaborated: “In the US and Canada, these changes contributed to a DAU decline of 700,000 compared to Q3.

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Twitch To Start Live Streaming Minor League Basketball

Karol Severin

14 Dec 2017

NBA’s G League will be the first official sports league to start a streaming channel on Twitch, starting this Friday. It will offer live streaming of up to six games per week and offer viewers chatroom functionalities, as well as interactive stats and info.

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Three Reasons Why The Disney-Fox Deal Matters

Tim Mulligan

14 Dec 2017

Media and Marketing

Disney’s $52.4 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets is now confirmed. With Fox debt factored in, the total transaction cost rises to $66.1 billion. See my post yesterday for context.

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Why Fox Has Given Comcast The Cold Shoulder And Why Disney Is Now The Preferred Option

Tim Mulligan

13 Dec 2017

The end of 2017 is shaping up to be a pivotal time for the video landscape in the US. Tomorrow, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) will vote on whether or not to remove the common carrier designation with which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are currently designated.

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Is YouTube The Digital Successor To Free-To-View TV?

Tim Mulligan

24 Oct 2017

On October 17th, YouTube made another significant step towards supplanting the TV industry with the free-to-view ad-supported release of a YouTube original documentary on music artist Demi Lovato, entitled Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated - Official Documentary .

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Pay-TV Cord-cutting Versus Savvy SVOD Switchers

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Tim Mulligan

16 Oct 2017

Content Budgets

The news last Thursday about AT&T’s 390,000 pay-TV subscriber losses in the third quarter of 2017 are a salient reminder of the winds of change currently sweeping through the traditional video industry.

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The Emerging Video Content Bubble

Tim Mulligan

9 Oct 2017

For the TV industry, the current period of video content spending is a golden era. Content budgets are the highest they have ever been, as are revenues for the top 22 global TV networks. However, the video content business is inadvertently fuelling a speculative financial bubble, where investment returns are moving increasingly out of synch with the market fundamentals.

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MIDiA Fuse Is A Researcher’s Dream – Here’s Why

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Karol Severin

4 Oct 2017

The days are passing by apace, taking us closer and closer to MIDiA Research’s launch of Fuse — a self-service data and insight tool, which we believe is going to make lives easier for research, insight, strategy and sales teams in digital media and entertainment across the world.

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Spotify, Netflix And Instagram Make Gains In Q2 2017

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Mark Mulligan

19 Sep 2017

candy crush saga

Since Q4 2016 MIDiA Research has been fielding a quarterly tracker survey across the US, UK, Canada and Australia to build a proprietary dataset that provides a unique insight into how digital consumer trends are evolving quarter-upon-quarter.

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Quick Take: Zynga Partners With Ferrari To Delight CSR2 Players

Karol Severin

15 Sep 2017

Zynga’s CSR2 , a leading racing mobile game, has partnered up with Ferrari for a promotional in-game event to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the iconic car brand. A mutually beneficial brand-building partnership Having kicked-off yesterday and running through till February 2018, CSR2 will gradually roll out six special anniversary Ferraris, adding to the 10 Ferraris already available in CSR2 .

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A View To a Sure Thing: Why Apple and Amazon Want James Bond

Tim Mulligan

12 Sep 2017

Last week the Hollywood Reporter revealed that Apple and Amazon were joining Warner Bros in the bid to win the film distribution rights of James Bond titles from MGM Holdings, the parent company of MGM, which currently owns the video rights for the James Bond film properties.

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The Relentless Rise of YouTube

Tim Mulligan

27 Jul 2017

emerging markets

Monday unfurled the latest chapter in the YouTube Journey. At the Q2 earnings announcement for Alphabet, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that Alphabet’s growth in revenues in Q2 2016 was largely due to the increased performance of its YouTube division.

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Zynga Teams Up With MGM To Create ‘Words With Friends’ Game Show

Karol Severin

20 Jul 2017

cross-format entertainment

MGM Television and Zynga have announced a collaboration to develop a new television game show based on Words With Friends , the world's most popular mobile word game. The show will also incorporate aspects from Zynga's larger portfolio of With Friends word and puzzle games.

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What The New Season Of Game Of Thrones Tells Us About YouTube Engagement

Tim Mulligan

20 Jul 2017

Game of Thrones

YouTube has been notoriously coy about its user growth, with the official PR line for the company still stating that it has ‘Over one billion users.’ For a company that has been the driving force behind online video consumption for the last 12 years, YouTube has been both derided for the superficiality of its video content and for using its safe harbour privileges to undermine existing media models.

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Can Oculus’s planned $200 VR headset move the needle for VR in gaming?

Karol Severin

14 Jul 2017

So far, VR hasn’t exactly taken off in they way many would have predicted 2 years ago. MIDiA Research consumer survey data reveals that just 4% of consumers own a VR headset (weighted average across US, UK, Brazil, Japan, Sweden and Germany).

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Latest MIDiA Research Reports: An Overview

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Mark Mulligan

11 May 2017

consumer insights

Throughout Q1 2017 MIDiA Research has taken a close look at the latest shifts, trends and consumer insights within the digital marketplace across the 4 key areas of Video, Media, Music and Games. MIDiA reports address market forecasts and growth patterns by coverage areas and our latest reports consist of development trends, competitive landscape analysis, and key developments.

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Why Facebook Is Getting Into TV

Tim Mulligan

10 May 2017

Last week there was a lot of coverage around the 51% increase in year on year ad revenue and the additional 80 million monthly active users added to Facebook in Q1 2017. However last week also saw the unveiling of a significant new development in Facebook’s overall usermonetization strategy.

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Netflix Q1 2017: International Picks Up The Slack

Tim Mulligan

21 Apr 2017

Netflix’s Q1 earnings this week revealed a company that is continuing to shape the video streaming market, with international becoming an increasingly central part of the story. With Netflix on course to pass the psychologically significant 100 million subscriber mark, the company’s Q1 2017 quarterly earnings are particularly significant.

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