Reports: Entertainment and Fandom

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Sports Fans Consumer Trends 2019

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Alistair Taylor

August 2019

subscribers

Netflix

Audience engagement

Sports-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) services have largely struggled to entice subscribers, based on their current value propositions which consist mainly of niche rights. Pay-TV has the lion’s share of premium domestic sports rights, providing it with an advantageous set of assets partially justifying premium-priced contracts for its subscriber base.

US SVOD Subscriber Deep Dive
2019

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Tim Mulligan

July 2019

Streaming

Streaming video

Netflix

In the build-up to the Disney+ launch in November 2019, the US market is dominated by the big five of Netflix (currently number one for paid subscriptions with 60.2 million), Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Now and CBS All Access. Hulu showed the most dramatic growth, with a 41% increase in subscribers between Q1 2018 and Q1 2019.

Netflix After Q2 2019
Post-Peak or Strategic Reset?

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Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Amanda Stears

July 2019

Streaming

Streaming video

Apple TV

With a market capitalisation 122 times its current annual net income, Netflix suddenly finds itself scrambling to justify its price-to-earnings ratio. The July 17th earnings call knocked 11% off the market capitalisation of the poster-child of the streaming era in a matter of two days – equivalent to the entire market capitalisation of Snap Inc, another former darling of the tech and media landscape.

State of the Podcast Nation

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Mark Mulligan

July 2019

Apple

Spotify

Radio

Podcasts are an overnight success many years in the making. Podcasts were first added to Apple’s iTunes ecosystem in 2005, only to then spend a long time in the shadows. Now, however, they occupy the centre stage with radio companies, podcast vendors, streaming services and traditional media companies alike all trying to carve out roles.

Artist Fandom
The Artist Marketing Playbook Needs Rewriting

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Mark Mulligan

July 2019

Spotify

Artists

Taylor Swift

The whole essence of fandom is being turned upside down. An emerging crop of streaming native artists is finding its audience in a much more targeted and efficient way than via traditional music marketing. Instead of blowing a huge budget on carpet bombing TV, radio, and print, online artists and their teams are finding their exact audiences by focusing on relevance and engagement rather than reach and scale.

Sports and the Tech Majors
A Competitive Partnership

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Alistair Taylor

July 2019

Apple

Amazon

Apple TV

The big gap in streaming video’s content mix has historically been sports. This is now changing through a combination of disruptive challenger sports subscription video on demand (SVOD) services such as DAZN accelerating its rights and territory offerings alongside the increased interest being shown by the tech majors – notably Amazon and Facebook – in streaming premium sports offerings.

The Games Streaming Subscription Revolution
Meet the Players

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Karol Severin

June 2019

Streaming

Apple

Spotify

Streaming is rewriting the games market rulebook. The games subscription landscape is undergoing foundational changes driven by a growing list of new market entrants including tech majors, telcos, leading games developers and publishers. The rise of games streaming opens doors to device- and platform-agnostic solutions all across the attention economy, as companies look to capture the engagement of valuable gamer segments for their respective ecosystems and business objectives.

2019-2021
Emerging New Metrics for Sports Streaming Success

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Alistair Taylor

June 2019

Streaming

Apple

Amazon

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 as DAZN and Eleven Sports have experienced mixed fortunes.

Direct to Consumer
Video’s Big Bang Moment

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Tim Mulligan

June 2019

Streaming

Apple

Spotify

2019 marks the biggest shift in the US video market since Netflix’s pivot into streaming in 2007. Apple, Disney and AT&T-owned Warner Media are preparing for their direct-to-consumer (D2C) launches into the US market in Q3/Q4 2019. How they fare will have a significant impact on the global evolution of video subscriptions.

Truth and Trust in the Era of Fake News

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Mark Mulligan

May 2019

Apple

Spotify

Deezer

The second half of the 2010s have become a watershed moment for news. The combination of the manipulation of social platforms by political agents, the growing effect of consumers’ personal filter bubbles and the quasi-legitimisation of unscrupulous news outlets have undermined audience trust across the whole political spectrum.

Sports SVOD Services Deep Dive

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Alistair Taylor

May 2019

Apple

Spotify

Amazon

Sports-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) services have entered international markets, looking to capture digital-native audiences from pay-TV and other established SVOD services. Eleven Sports’ demise in the UK provides the best case study for how streaming services can struggle when entering a market with insufficient rights offerings.

Music Marketing
Niche is the New Mainstream

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Mark Mulligan

May 2019

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify

Streaming personalisation and falling radio audiences are combining to rewrite the music marketing rulebook, ushering in a whole new marketing paradigm. Hits used to be cultural moments; artist brands built by traditional mass media. This fire-hydrant approach to marketing lacked both accountability and effective targeting.

US Cord Cutting Full Year 2018
Streaming Transition Picks Up Pace

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Tim Mulligan

April 2019

US

YouTube

Streaming video

Cord cutting is now an established component of the US pay-TV landscape, reinforcing the role of the US as the canary in the mine for the global pay-TV business. Cord cutting accelerated in 2018, highlighting the secular nature of the phenomenon. However, this is not simply a story of decline but instead one of transition, with streaming growing — in a wider sense — the total base of pay-TV subscribers.

Profiling the Live Music Consumer
How Streaming Behaviours are Changing the Face of the Live Music Business

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Zach Fuller

April 2019

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

Live music revenues grew dramatically throughout the piracy years of the 2000s and early 2010s, with festivals in particular gaining popularity while the recorded music industry grappled with the existential threat of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloads. However, the recorded music industry is in a very different place now than it was then.

Youtube e Spotify tomam conta do mercado latino-americano de streaming de música

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Leo Morel

April 2019

Streaming

Streaming Music

Latin America

Visão Geral: A América Latina tornou-se um dos mais importantes mercados de streaming de música devido a fatores como a acelerada adoção por parte do consumidor, a crescente proliferação de smartphones, a significativa oferta de serviços de streaming e o rápido crescimento das receitas das assinaturas gratuitas e pagas.

E-sports
An Alternative Future for Televised Sports?

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Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

April 2019

YouTube

Amazon

Google

E-sports continue to gain attention, with more brands seeking to enter the space populated as it is by a succession of new leagues, competitions and teams. But for all the hype, e-sports has not yet managed to deliver the scale of audience that the market activity warrants.

SVOD Stacking
Direct to Consumer Services Set to Move the Needle

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Tim Mulligan

March 2019

Streaming

US

UK

In the attention economy, everyone is your competitor – a point well made by Netflix’s Reed Hastings’ observation that the company is now vying for viewer time with the popular game Fortnite. Now that we are entering the post-peak phase of the attention economy, the focus for video is shifting to the overlap between subscription video on demand (SVOD) users and the additional services they use.

Four Marketing Principles for the Digital Economy
1.0

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Georgia Meyer

March 2019

digital content

context

amazon studios

The ascent of the digital economy has resulted in a radical change of marketing principles, the consequences of which have not yet been sufficiently understood. This report outlines four marketing principles derived from the new rules shaping measurement, creativity, purchase behaviour and consumer agency in the digital economy.

The Voice Market and Behaviour Trends Overview

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Karol Severin

March 2019

Facebook

Twitter

iPhone

Despite being far from the mainstream at 9% penetration, voice control activity has established itself firmly in certain pockets of the digital entertainment landscape, be it among music subscribers in terms of entertainment or among Snapchat users within social media.

Games Streaming
Tech Major Disruption is Coming

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Karol Severin

February 2019

tech majors

Attention economy

cross-platform gaming

Streaming is about to take the gaming world by storm. With new entrants including Google, Amazon, and Verizon, and others to come in the future, the traditionally siloed gaming model is becoming part of a wider cross-format, platform-agnostic play in the attention economy.

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