Reports: Audience Insight

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Games Video Viewing
Broader Propositions Will Increase Mainstream Adoption

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Karol Severin

November 2017

games video

gaming video

gamer video

Games related video viewing is a relatively new but vibrant marketplace. It has multiple use cases across the gamer segments: from newbies watching walkthroughs, to hard core fans viewing an e-sports event online. Though currently still a niche activity among gamers overall, it has a mainstream penetration of 54% among 16-24 year old males.

The Digital News Consumer

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Zach Fuller

October 2017

YouTube

Facebook

buzzfeed

As the publishing industry’s issues regarding monetisation move front and centre in the political debate over Facebook’s media influence, the way consumers discover and interact with news content stands at a tipping point. With increasing diversity in consumption patterns across geographical markets and age groups, understanding the digital pub...

Rovio’s Pre-IPO Health Check

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Karol Severin

October 2017

rovio

Angry Birds

Angry Birds 2

Rovio, the publisher of Angry Birds, announced it would go public in October 2017 via NASDAQ Helsinki. The company is beyond its user growth peak, but is midway through a company turn around in terms of revenues and profitability. The company has IPOed as a profitable and revenue (rather than user growth) – oriented enterprise, willing to pay div...

Going Beyond Sync
Mutually Beneficial Opportunities in Music And Games

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Karol Severin

September 2017

Music behaviour

music services

playlisting

There is a significant behavioural and demographic overlap between gamers and music consumers. An affinity for music, adoption of subscription services, attendance of live music events, merchandise sales and following celebrities on social media, are just a few of the many indicators in which gamers over-index, compared to average consumers.

Quarterly Digital Content Trends
Q2 2017

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Mark Mulligan

August 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker, a survey fielded in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour evolved between Q4 2016 and Q2 2017 across music, video, games and social.

YouTube Q2 2017
Quietly Bigger And Better Than Ever

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Tim Mulligan

July 2017

YouTube

YouTube

Google

The announcement in June 2017 that YouTube had 1.5 billion monthly logged-in users was the first official user number since the 2013 tally of One billion unique monthly users. This metrics reticence stands in stark contrast to rivals in the attention economy, such as Facebook, which provides quarterly updates on its continued growth in active users.

Game Consumer Segmentation
Aficionados Drive Adoption

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Karol Severin

July 2017

passive majority

consumer segmentation

forgotten fans

Barriers between the traditionally isolated PC, console and mobile games formats are gradually breaking down. This is happening on the device level (Nintendo Switch), title level (e.g. multiplatform Minecraft gameplay), the development level (Unity) and the corporate level (Console gaming companies buying their way into mobile and vice versa).

SVOD User Deep Dive
TV's Specialisation Period

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Tim Mulligan

June 2017

Apple

Amazon

Amazon

SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) is now the default mainstream video on demand consumption behaviour for TV-like content. Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are now the twin lenses behind measuring overall SVOD engagement. Netflix and Amazon users over-index on all SVOD consumption metrics tracked and this underlines the importance of engaging with ...

Paid News
Legacy Titles and New Media Compete For Share Of Digital Voice

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Zach Fuller

June 2017

Apple

Amazon

Google

In an economy based on attention, the monetisation of news in 2017 balances declining advertising revenues against a push towards building subscribers. Emerging business models and shifts in consumer behaviour are reshaping news monetisation and directly impacting the publishers of news content.

Mapping Daily Active Gamers Across Platforms
Diversity Is The Name Of The Game

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Karol Severin

June 2017

Xbox

Facebook

PlayStation

The Daily Active User (DAU) is a common engagement metric, often used in gauging companies’ performance and value. In gaming, DAUs vary markedly across mobile, PC, console and social. The differences are seen in penetration rates, demographics, engagement and spending trends.

Call Of Duty Fan Profile
Hardcore Gamers Become Video Fans

Karol Severin

June 2017

aaa title fans

triple a title fans

Call of Duty

Though Call of Duty (CoD) fans show similar behaviours to the fans of other AAA Games titles, demographically they more closely resemble hard-core gamers. What is more, the amount of time they spend gaming causes them to under-index certain non-game, mainstream digital activities like mobile messaging.

Grand Theft Auto Fan Profile
The Mainstream Hardcore Gamers

Karol Severin

May 2017

YouTube

Deezer

Apple Music

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is among the most popular console game title franchises in the market. Despite the controversy, the brand has managed to establish a solid fan foothold across genders and ages. GTA fans are digitally sophisticated and engaged users (albeit under-indexing in messaging app usage) with a strong affinity for online video and for ...

The Platform-Agnostic Artist
Building Audiences In A Decentralized Media Landscape

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Zach Fuller

May 2017

post platform

platform agnostic

decentralised audience

It used to be much simpler. Fixed programming formats in Television, Print and Radio meant you knew where an audience was and how long they would be there for, yet creators now find themselves in an echo chamber where the tyranny of choice means their potential audience never stays in the same place for long.

Canada Video Market
Strong Pay-TV Market Creates A Big Appetite For Video

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Tim Mulligan

April 2017

streaming subscriptions

Netflix

Amazon Prime

With a third of Canadians subscribing to traditional pay-TV, the country has a strong appetite for online video. This is demonstrated by the 20.3% of the population who are now Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) subscribers. With the SVOD market already more than two thirds the size of the traditional pay-TV market, Canada is a litmus test for whe...

The State Of The SVOD Nation 2017
Global SVOD Markets And Consumer Trends

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Tim Mulligan

April 2017

streaming subscriptions

emerging markets

SVOD

Despite the fear of an impending bubble bursting, Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) has never been in a stronger position globally. Although still dominated by the US as the largest market and as the home of the two largest SVOD services, the non-US market is growing fast, with territories such as Singapore experiencing a 20% increase in SVOD ser...

The Emergence Of The Always On Gamer
Profiling Console Owners

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Karol Severin

March 2017

Apple

Google

Apple TV

The game console owner segment is evolving fast. Still relatively young for now, console game fans are both aging and heading towards truly mainstream demographic distribution. Simultaneously, console subscription models are gaining traction, migrating premium physical software budgets into digital spend.

Mobile Gamer User Profile
Mobile Is The Unifying Factor For Gamers

Karol Severin

February 2017

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

Whatever your digital content proposition, mobile gamers comprise a significant share of your user base. The segment is not only important due to its sheer size and app economy value, but also because it straddles otherwise diverse components of the digital entertainment landscape, be it video, music, or messaging.

Mobile App Cross Usage
Music

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Karol Severin

February 2017

Streaming Music

streaming subscriptions

value proposition

Mobile app usage is defined by consumers engaging with a multitude of propositions, even when they serve a very similar purpose. Consumers often use multiple different messaging apps, video apps and music apps. Mobile was the catalyst for streaming music’s growth and now accounts for 80% of all streaming activity.

Fake News 2017
Social Media’s Coming of Age

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Zach Fuller

January 2017

Facebook

Social media

new media

By reaching the apex of cultural ubiquity, social media is being forced to answer questions it never imagined it would need to. Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Co.’s original missions could not have comprehended the way in which their communications tools would construct world-views.

US Video Market Overview
SVOD Grows The Pay-TV Market

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Tim Mulligan

January 2017

US

Streaming video

SVOD

The US continues to dominate global video trends as the world’s most valuable online video market. The video audience continues to experience strong growth fueled by a combination of increased technological sophistication of the addressable market and increased engagement of existing users.

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