The four key cultural trends transforming digital entertainment in 2021 and beyond

Report by Hanna Kahlert

31 Aug 2021

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Amazon

amazon prime video

Disney+

The effect of streaming on entertainment is not new, but as we move into the era of mainstream vaccinations, the shifts in streaming-driven consumer behaviour over the last year and a half will drive...

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Sci-fi video fan consumer snapshot, Q2 2021
US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, Brazil

Report by Tim Mulligan

27 Aug 2021

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Online video

YouTube

netflix

This slide deck presents sci-fi video fan consumer demand covering video services, live TV viewing, binge viewing, device viewing, YouTube consumption, and leading video services by WAU penetration. The...

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Unlocking mainstream AVOD
The silver streamer catalyst

Report by Tim Mulligan

31 Jul 2021

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AVOD

Silver Streamer

demographics

Ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) has been championed as the free-to-access equivalent of subscription video on demand (SVOD). However, for AVOD to become the digital successor to free-to-view TV it...

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The changing context of consumption
Emerging consumer trends in a re-saturated attention economy

Report by Hanna Kahlert

22 Jul 2021

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consumer insight

streaming

digital first

Rampant attention competition has driven changes in entertainment consumption itself, exacerbated by the last year’s attention boom. Quality of attention and quantity of attention are increasingly differentiated,...

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MIDiA Research video streaming subscription forecasts 2021-2027
Margins eclipse reach as developed markets dominate revenue growth

Report by Tim Mulligan

28 Jun 2021

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Video

forecast

2021

This report presents the key figures, trends and drivers of MIDiA’s video streaming forecast model. The figures presented in this report are in billions of US dollars unless otherwise stated. An Excel...

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Podcast audiences
Competing for attention

Report by Mark Mulligan

20 May 2021

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Podcasts

podcast strategy

Product Strategy

2020 was a big year for podcasts, with increased investment, M&A activity and industry moves. Audiences grew too, but still lag behind in hype and expectation, and a portion of this growth has come...

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The rise of the silver streamer
55+ demographic reshapes video streaming

Report by Tim Mulligan

30 Apr 2021

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silver streamer reaggregation

video ecosystems

d2c

2020 brought video streaming into the mainstream, resulting in an aging consumer base as later adopters embraced the digital-first behaviour. With binge viewing typically occurring at the start of on-demand...

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Digital consumption habits
How tomorrow’s audiences will reshape entertainment

Report by Hanna Kahlert

24 Mar 2021

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Amazon

amazon prime video

AppleTV+

Digital-first access has shaped mainstream consumption, but for digital natives, it has also shaped their core behaviours. Music consumption is now fragmented across artists, becoming a personalised,...

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Media consumption
Lockdown’s attention boom

Report by Mark Mulligan

12 Feb 2021

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Media and Marketing

media consumption

entertainment consumption

2020 was a year like no other. With large swathes of the population confined to their homes for portions of the year, audiences had more time on their hands and more money in their pockets. These conditions...

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Sports audiences
The Gen Z opportunity

Report by Alistair Taylor

8 Feb 2021

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Activision Blizzard

Amazon

amazon prime video

Digital natives are more likely to consume non-live sports than older, traditional sports fans, which presents rights holders and broadcasters with untapped potential for monetisation by harnessing and...

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The Great Reaggregation
Lockdown, Demand and Consolidation

Report by Tim Mulligan

29 Jan 2021

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Video

reaggregation

video ecosystems

COVID-19 removed the constraints imposed by peak attention, leading to a surge in home-based entertainment consumption and streaming adoption. Fortuitous timing, enforced home working and the end of the...

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Sports Rights
The Great Reset

Report by Alistair Taylor

16 Dec 2020

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Amazon

BT Sport

BT

COVID-19 exposed live entertainment as a vulnerable asset class during a global health crisis, rendering services overly reliant on live sports broadcasts as primary churn candidates. A major overhaul...

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Cultural Trends in 2021
Navigating a New Normal

Report by Hanna Kahlert

10 Dec 2020

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Amazon

amazon prime video

Amuse

Behaviours under coronavirus-driven lockdowns accelerated underlying digital consumption trends. Remote working and ongoing restrictions mean streaming behaviour is up across formats and demographics...

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Q3 2020 US AVOD Consumer Deep Dive
The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Tubi TV and IMDb TV

Report by Tim Mulligan

27 Nov 2020

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AVOD

streaming video

d2c

Ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) continues to lag behind subscription video on demand (SVOD) in a US market still heavily focused on paid subscriptions. AVOD weekly active engagement grew steadily...

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The Case for News in Video D2C Services

Report by Tim Mulligan

30 Oct 2020

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news

news consumer

Video D2C

Digital disruption of the traditional pay-TV landscape was led by subscription video on demand (SVOD) services using scripted drama to gain consumer adoption, one of pay-TV’s very own four pillars....

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Music Subscriber Market Shares 4.0
Subscriptions Decouple from Revenue

Report by Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2020

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streaming

music streaming

subscriptions

This report presents key figures from MIDiA’s global music subscriber market shares model. The full dataset is published alongside this report with quarterly data from Q4 2015 to Q1 2020 and annual...

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Post-Pandemic Programming
Surviving and Thriving in the Recession

Report by Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Alistair Taylor, Keith Jopling and Hanna Kahlert

9 Sep 2020

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aeg

AMC Cinemas

Alphabet

COVID-19 caused dislocation and disruption to the global entertainment business. Now, the recession and the prospect of further pandemic peaks have created an unprecedented outlook for entertainment companies....

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Q2 2020 UK Video Consumer Deep Dive

Report by Tim Mulligan

19 Aug 2020

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UK Video

UK SVOD

uk tv

UK video engagement in Q2 2020 remains primarily a two-horse race between subscription-based Netflix and ad-supported YouTube, which returned to dominance with 55% weekly average user penetration –...

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The Global Music Publishing Market
Streaming Shifts the Conversation

Report by Zach Fuller

22 Aug 2019

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at&t

Amazon

Anchor

The effects of music streaming having supplanted both the download and the CD as the mainstream format for recorded music (accounting for 50% of total recorded revenue in 2018) are being keenly felt across...

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2019-2021
Emerging New Metrics for Sports Streaming Success

Report by Alistair Taylor

14 Jun 2019

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licensing

rights acquisition

bidding

The clock is ticking down to 2021 when the major domestic sports rights in the US and the UK will start coming up for renewal. Thus far, pureplay sports streaming video on demand (SVOD) services such...

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