Reports: Business Strategy

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AVOD
A market primed for success

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Tim Mulligan

March 2022

Business Strategy

The leading ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) services in the US have doubled their weekly active users (WAUs) in the past 24 months. While still niche, AVOD is now moving ever closer to mainstream adoption. This is most strikingly seen in the pivot of its userbase, from younger, lower-income demographics to older and wealthier consumers.

Games companies’ video opportunity
From marketing to monetisation

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Karol Severin

March 2022

Streaming

Gaming

Games

MIDiAs head games analyst, Karol Severin, discusses a key games video opportunity for games companies and games video creators alike, alongside two panellists - CEO of Wormhole Labs and a Twitch content creator. Find the full webinar here Let us know your thoughts on this groundbreaking opportunity via email: info@midiaresearch.

From marketing to monetisation
The games video opportunity for games companies

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Karol Severin

February 2022

YouTube

Twitch

facebook gaming

Games-related video consumption is now as big as established TV and video genres. Despite games companies providing the fuel for the games video sector (i.e., games experiences, processed into content by creators), the monetisation is mostly enjoyed by established games video platforms.

Music creators
Slicing the funnel

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Mark Mulligan, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

February 2022

YouTube

SoundCloud

TuneCore

Streaming enabled the rise of the independent artist and then the rise of the music creator. The promise of the long tail finally appeared to be realised. But the pandemic’s disruption of live music catalysed an already growing realisation among long- and mid-tail artists that they lack the scale to benefit from streaming economics.

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

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Tim Mulligan

February 2022

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 (IR...

State of the live streaming nation
Reframing the format post-lockdown

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Tatiana Cirisano

January 2022

Consumer behaviour

live music

Gaming

The loss of touring income during the global pandemic spurred fast growth in a previously niche concert live streaming ecosystem. However, as the world begins to re-open and physical touring resumes, the live streaming industry is encountering a new set of challenges – as well as potential opportunities.

Hybrid futures
MIDiA 2022 predictions

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Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

January 2022

Social media

Business Strategy

MIDiA Research Predictions

MIDiA analysts dive into our 2022 predictions, and why we believe it will be ' the year of the creator '. Watch the webinar here ....

Gamer consumer deep dive Q3 2021

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Karol Severin

December 2021

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, Dis...

Music market subscriber shares 2021
Growth is not letting up yet

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Mark Mulligan

December 2021

Subscriptions

Streaming

Music 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 2021) and annual label trade revenue (from FY 2015 to FY 2020) for more than 20 streaming services across 34 different markets.

Video Consumer Snapshot Q3 2021
US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, Brazil

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Tim Mulligan

December 2021

Online video

SVOD

SVOD subscriptions

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 Q3 2021 Consumer Survey fielded in the US, UK, Australia,...

2022 MIDiA predictions
The year of the creator

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Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

December 2021

Creators

Apple

Spotify

In this report MIDiA Research analysts present their predictions for what will be the big trends in digital media and tech across music, video, brands, marketing, games, and sports in 2022 and beyond. Companies and brands mentioned in this report: Adele,...

Consolidation and retention
How D2C is now driving video M&A strategy

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Tim Mulligan

November 2021

Apple

Amazon

Streaming video

The D2C big bang moment of 2019/2020 opened up a new offensive front for media majors as they competed with the communications and tech majors for streaming audience market share, which was previously lost to the SVOD insurgents. Pureplay media players responded via defensive consolidation and / or selling themselves to more motivated competitors.

Spotify Q3 2021 earnings
Premium matures as advertising accelerates

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Mark Mulligan

November 2021

Spotify

Business Strategy

Spotify is in a transition phase. Monthly active user (MAU) growth bounced back, but user growth is in a mid-term slowdown phase while the business begins its transition to emerging markets and ad-based audio – with the latter showing more signs of movement than the former.

Growth from transparency
Reframing the value of music through creator rights

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Mark Mulligan, Keith Jopling, Srishti Das and Kriss Thakrar

November 2021

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.

Independent label market shares
Up on all counts

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Mark Mulligan

October 2021

Spotify

Record labels

Independent labels

This report presents record label market share that is measured not just by label reported revenues, but also by separating the revenues of independent labels that are distributed by major label groups, in order to give a more precise view of how the independent sector is performing.

Beyond broadcast
How digital natives will reboot sports content monetisation

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Srishti Das

October 2021

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 highlight...

Smart home
Smart devices are winning the battle for the future of TV

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Tim Mulligan

September 2021

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 ecosyste...

Spotify Q2 2021 earnings
Slowdown arrives

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Mark Mulligan

August 2021

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

Spotify

The growth headwinds that appeared in Q1 2021 manifested in a pronounced user growth slowdown in Q2, with ad-supported users hit hardest. Spotify has been through lean growth periods before, but what is different this time is that streaming’s new players are growing at pace.

Unlocking mainstream AVOD
The silver streamer catalyst

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Tim Mulligan

July 2021

Subscriptions

Streaming

Amazon

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 needs to break out of its current niche user base.

MIDiA Research 2021 – 2028 global music forecasts
ARPU growth finally delivers

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Mark Mulligan

June 2021

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...

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