Reports: Audience Insight

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Social media user snapshot
Q1 2022

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Hanna Kahlert

May 2022

YouTube

Facebook

Twitter

This report presents country-level snapshots into the social media usage, engagement habits, and ad tolerances of different social app users. It covers Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok and Discord across MIDiA’s nine surveyed markets of the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea and Brazil.

Social video
TikTok sets the pace

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Richard Broadhurst

May 2022

YouTube

digital natives

Facebook

Social video is optimising lean-through engagement for digital natives, with simple editing features, filters, and music. Value for younger digital natives (those aged 16-19-years-old) lies in co-creation, sharing and liking. User-generated content (UGC) creation has contributed to the success of short-form video, as users seek to have an impact wi...

Women In Music 2022
Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Português

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Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano

May 2022

Business Strategy

Audience Insight

BE THE CHANGE – Women In Music 2022. The report and executive summary are here available to download in French, and the executive summary is further available to download in German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

Esports viewers update
A valuable segment with a (solvable) growth problem

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Richard Broadhurst

May 2022

Vevo

Facebook

Twitter

Esports currently struggle to attract consumers beyond esports enthusiasts and players of esport-centric titles. Despite growth problems, the esports viewer segment remains valuable. These consumers have large amounts of time and money spent across entertainment, as well as high ad tolerance.

Audio consumption
The entertainment aficionado opportunity

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Annie Langston

May 2022

Spotify

Amazon

Google

Streaming platforms are continuing their investment in podcasting despite relatively slow adoption from listeners. Identifying enthusiastic consumer segments will be crucial to accelerating audience growth. Entertainment aficionados (i.e., those who spend more than the average time and money on specific entertainment formats) in music, games, and v...

Profiling the social media footprint of niche entertainment audiences for Web 3

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Hanna Kahlert

March 2022

Social media

social media following

Audience Insight

Entertainment audiences are evolving, with digital-first habits – driven by both lockdowns and technology innovations – changing their relationship to the content they consume. Big hits are now just as likely to result from going viral on social media as through traditional paid mass-marketing campaigns.

Gamer brand fandom
Assessing partnership suitability between games and entertainment brands

Karol Severin

March 2022

Gaming

Entertainment

mobile games

Entertainment partnerships in games are booming, with games companies being approached with opportunities from all directions. This increased level of opportunity puts pressure on the available time and resources to properly evaluate each proposal. Simultaneously, the continuous influx of opportunities, coupled with ongoing games release deadlines,...

Audio audiences
Steady change

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Mark Mulligan, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston

February 2022

Radio

radio audiences

music radio

Podcasts reinvigorated the audio market, bringing with it the promise of a ‘Netflix moment’ for radio. Though podcast audience growth has not kept pace with industry interest and hype, podcasts have been at the centre of a boom in audio consumption that was accentuated by Covid lockdowns, and that is recalibrating post-pandemic.

Music consumer survey, Q3 2021
A new generation leans forward

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Tatiana Cirisano

February 2022

Creators

Radio

radio audiences

As streaming subscriptions rise and music increasingly competes with other forms of media for consumers’ limited attention spans, lean-back listening activities are taking precedence over those which are lean-forward. But the full picture is far more varied.

NFTs and entertainment
Opportunity assessment

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Karol Severin

January 2022

mobile games

Epic Games

games streaming

NFTs are taking the media and entertainment worlds by storm, but we are still, arguably, in early-adoption stages. The media and supply-side frenzy is kicking in, posing more noise and challenge for companies that wish to soberly assess the opportunities that NFTs can bring.

Indian sports consumer profiles
Indian urban sports fandom in Q3 2021

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Srishti Das

November 2021

Video

sports rights

live sports

This case study is partnered with the report “Beyond broadcast | How digital natives will reboot sports content monetisation”, accessible to subscribers here ....

Attention economy
After the lockdown boom

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Mark Mulligan

November 2021

Consumer behaviour

Streaming Music

Radio

The pandemic-triggered change in everyday life resulted in a boom in entertainment consumption, which, in turn, saw growth in emerging formats as well as a temporary rebound for traditional formats. As the world starts to ease back into pre-pandemic routines, much of this newly found entertainment time will go – but the declines will not be evenl...

Video Consumer Snapshot Q2 2021
US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, Brazil

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Tim Mulligan

October 2021

Streaming

Video

Streaming video

This slide deck presents consumer demand for video subscription services and streaming consumption, with detail for streaming services and video consumption preferences. The data in this deck is pulled from MIDiA’s Q2 2021 Consumer Survey that was fielded in US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea and Brazil.

Live streamed events consumer behaviour
Q2 2021

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Mark Mulligan

October 2021

live music

Music

Live video streaming

This report looks at live stream audience data and audience behaviour trends with regards to live streamed events. Methodological notes: The Brazil self-reported, live streamed penetration rate from MIDiA’s survey came in at 22% for Q2 2021 – a sharp increase on previous quarters.

From social media to creator tools
The evolution of UGC

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Hanna Kahlert

September 2021

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

Entertainment is suffering intense competition as audience attention time, already saturated before the pandemic, is hit by the gradual return of ‘in real life’ activities. A flurry of new propositions over the last year and a half, namely in streaming and social media, are competing on largely similar grounds – making differentiation ever mo...

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

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Tim Mulligan

August 2021

Video

YouTube

Amazon

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 accompanying dataset includes the demographic breakdown for each segment by age (16-19, 20-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55+), by distribution (absolute...

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

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Hanna Kahlert

July 2021

Spotify

Amazon

Netflix

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, making adjacent behaviours more valuable than ever to track sentiment and consumer expression.

Music consumer survey Q1 2021
YouTube extends its reach

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Mark Mulligan

July 2021

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

The data in this report is taken from MIDiA’s Q1 2021 consumer survey. The full data from this survey and all the preceding quarterly surveys are available, along with data visualisation tools and dynamic segmentation, on MIDiA Fuse. The countries covered in this report are US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Brazil, South Korea.

The esports viewer dossier Q1 2021

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Karol Severin

June 2021

subscribers

Gaming

Games

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Video consumer snapshot Q1 2021
US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, Brazil

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Tim Mulligan

May 2021

US

UK

France

This slide deck presents consumer demand for video subscription services and streaming consumption, with detail for streaming services and video consumption preferences. The data is pulled from MIDiA’s Q1 2021 Consumer Survey fielded in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, and Brazil.

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