Reports: Entertainment and Fandom

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MIDiA Data Spotlight: Video Piracy
P2P Holding on in Emerging Markets

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Tim Mulligan
This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1:P2P Video Piracy is Relegated to Niche Audiences in Developed Markets but Still Has Traction in Emerging Markets Percentage of Consumers that Use P2P Networks to Download Video, Q1 2018 In developed markets P2P piracy has been reduced to a dwindling group of digital migrant diehards.
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MIDiA Data Spotlight: Home Technology
Ownership is Going Both Deep and Wide

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Mark Mulligan
This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: The Digital Home is Becoming Increasingly Sophisticated Household Ownership of Digital Technology, Q1 2018 The ‘digital home’ was a term that rose to prominence in the mid 2000s as the first generation of home router centred devices started to come to market at scale.
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MIDiA Data Spotlight: Music Consumption
YouTube and Radio Lead the Pack

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Mark Mulligan
This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: YouTube and Radio Dominate Music Consumption Key Music Consumption and Purchasing Behaviour, Q1 2018 Music consumption and spending is more diversified than ever, with traditional formats still holding on to their loyal legacy audiences, while adoption of newer formats accelerates, especially among younger consumers.
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Paid News Digital Subscriptions
Bubble or Breakthrough?

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Zach Fuller
Still feeling imbued with the often cited ‘Trump bump’, paid news media subscriptions continued their healthy growth trajectory throughout 2017 and into the first quarter of 2018. The market, excepting China and India, grew largely in symmetry with other digital behaviours, as premium news brands continued to make their case as a credible alternative to the clickbait-centric news feeds of social media.
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The Sports Video Landscape
Sports Streaming Services in a Digital First Ecosystem

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Alistair Taylor
The 13.2% dip on the 2019–2022 English Premier League (EPL) rights deals compared to the 2015-2018 deal highlighted the decline in value for sports broadcast rights. In light of this downturn and a fall in the consumption of sports content on traditional linear TV, moves are being made into the subscription video on demand (SVOD) space, with Disney’s new direct-to-consumer flagship sports SVOD service ESPN+ leading the charge.
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Tech Majors Market Shares Q1 2018
Advertising and Subscriptions Power Growth

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Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller
In Q1 2018 advertising revenue and services revenue drove strong growth for the tech majors – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, with Alphabet and Apple retaining their respective leads in each of those revenue segments but losing market share. Subscriptions were also a big part of the Q1 narrative; Amazon and Apple highlighted significant subscription growth underpinning their growing service businesses.
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