Reports: Business Strategy

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TV internationalisation 2.0
Video is disrupting commissioning and turbo-charging international hits

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Tim Mulligan
Discovery
video streaming services
Business Strategy
Streaming has empowered niche appeal shows to find global audiences on a scale comparable with analogue-era prime time domestic audiences. Niche is the new mainstream. For the first time a global hit is no longer synonymous with US-centric output. Niche has now found its global appeal and lean-out TV show content is building iconic in real life (IRL) brands beyond traditional linguistic and cultural constraints.
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Gamer consumer deep dive Q3 2021

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Karol Severin
Gaming
mobile games
Business Strategy
This report presents a deep dive into gamers across five areas: Gamer segments Console owners Services and apps Games behaviours Entertainment behaviours Including more than fifty slides of data and analysis, as well as detailed Excel files, the topics covered include: mobile gamers, console gamers, computer gamers, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Discord, YouTube, Twitch, Stadia, Arcade, games videos, gamer overlaps, gamer demographics, games genres, games titles, in-games spending, NFTs, cross-entertainment behaviours, and much more.
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Growth from transparency
Reframing the value of music through creator rights

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Mark Mulligan, Keith Jopling, Srishti Das and Kriss Thakrar
Free Report
Creators
Streaming
Business Strategy
The music industry has been through an unprecedented period of change over the past five years.Innovations in live streaming, games, user-generated content (UGC), digital art, and trading of rights represent welcome new opportunities for music creators - opportunities that will require creators to adapt in order to take full advantage.
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Beyond broadcast
How digital natives will reboot sports content monetisation

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Srishti Das
YouTube
Amazon
Instagram
Global broadcast deals are being renegotiated in the context of expiring rights, evolving digitally native, younger audience engagement and increased competition for attention. With only 6% of 16-19-year-olds watching live sport across OTT platforms and linear TV, Gen Z is slowly finding new ways to engage with sports through social media highlights and fantasy sports.
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Smart home
Smart devices are winning the battle for the future of TV

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Tim Mulligan
smart tvs
VOD
net neutrality
The unbundling of TV consumption is catalysing the smart home, with media streamers and smart TVs driving adoption and engagement. The smart home entertainment ecosystem will expand due to smart devices (smart TVs and smart speakers), as they are building on traditional consumption habits and engagement of key segments to act as smart home ecosystem ambassadors.
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MIDiA Research 2021 – 2028 global music forecasts
ARPU growth finally delivers

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Mark Mulligan
revenue
Global
Music
This report presents the key figures, trends and drivers of MIDiA’s music forecast model. The figures presented in this report are both retail and label trade values and are in billions of US dollars unless otherwise stated. An Excel file posted alongside this report provides complete country level data, including DSP market shares and a detailed methodology statement.
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Getting serious about esports
Identifying off-season digital engagement opportunities for sports

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Alistair Taylor
Yahoo
esports
Fox
COVID-19 has expedited the need for rights holders and teams to generate digital engagement beyond the pure play live broadcast. Games and esports became big attention economy winners during the early stages of the pandemic and first lockdown. Rights holders desperate to maintain connectivity with fans looked to esports to drive engagement and maintain relevance.
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