Reports: Entertainment and Fandom

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Social TV Show Fandom
Nuances In Engagement Among SVOD Subscribers

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Tim Mulligan

October 2017

US

UK

Australia

As the TV viewing experience becomes increasingly fragmented across the digital sphere, TV show fandom is becoming ever more nuanced. Across the five largest social apps by weekly usage, TV brand engagement varies considerably. Facebook and YouTube are both mainstream social apps by engagement and exhibit the highest levels of TV fandom among SVOD subscribers.

Netflix Q3 2017
Netflix Gains 100 Million-plus Paid Subscribers

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October 2017

SVOD

Netflix consumer trends

financial statements

Netflix has achieved a commercial milestone in becoming the first Subscriber Video On Demand (SVOD) service company to have over 100 million paying streaming subscribers. Netflix has managed to attract 109.3 million consumers to its SVOD platform. This continued success has exceeded external expectations that Netflix’s growth rate might be impacted by its decision to increase standard membership prices in both UK and US markets.

Rovio’s Pre-IPO Health Check

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Karol Severin

October 2017

rovio

Angry Birds

Angry Birds 2

Rovio, the publisher of Angry Birds, announced it would go public in October 2017 via NASDAQ Helsinki. The company is beyond its user growth peak, but is midway through a company turn around in terms of revenues and profitability. The company has IPOed as a profitable and revenue (rather than user growth) – oriented enterprise, willing to pay dividends from the get go.

Media Company Strategy
How Legacy Format Audiences Can Fund Digital Transition

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Zach Fuller

September 2017

publishing

physical books

mass media

Media’s well documented struggles of balancing the decline of ad revenue with building digital subscriber bases has resulted in surprising strategic actions by some of its largest entities. As the tech majors take more digital ad revenue form across the digital sphere, publishing, music and online video companies are quietly super-serving legacy products to consumers and stretching the existing high-margins in these areas, as a revenue hedge during this transitional period in digital monetisation.

The Emerging Video Content Bubble

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Tim Mulligan

September 2017

Apple

YouTube

Amazon

Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) services like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have spurred a scripted drama renaissance and, in doing, so have trigged a content licensing arms race. Traditional TV networks have had to increase their spending to compete with these new streaming TV networks.

Going Beyond Sync
Mutually Beneficial Opportunities in Music And Games

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Karol Severin

September 2017

Music behaviour

music services

playlisting

There is a significant behavioural and demographic overlap between gamers and music consumers. An affinity for music, adoption of subscription services, attendance of live music events, merchandise sales and following celebrities on social media, are just a few of the many indicators in which gamers over-index, compared to average consumers.

Quarterly Digital Content Trends
Q2 2017

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Mark Mulligan

August 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker, a survey fielded in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour evolved between Q4 2016 and Q2 2017 across music, video, games and social.

Mobile App Discovery
Targeting Gamers With Word Of Mouth

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Karol Severin

August 2017

ASO

app store optimization

app discovery

App discovery has come a long way since the rise of mobile app stores. What were once relatively simple app marketplaces are evolving into more carefully curated experiences, in a bid to showcase effectively a greater amount of the two million strong app ecosystem, rather than just the top 50.

TV Show Fandom Q2 2017
Measuring The Impact Of US TV

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Mark Mulligan

August 2017

Streaming

US

UK

In our July report, TV Show Fandom: Measuring TV Shows’ Real Appeal , we introduced MIDiA’s quarterly Paid Content Brand Tracker by revealing a sneak peek of the data we track for more than 50 TV shows in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. In this report, we provide analysis of some of the top-level trends for the Q2 2017 edition of the MIDiA Brand Tracker.

Content Piracy
Piracy Reinvented In The Streaming Era

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Mark Mulligan

August 2017

Streaming

Spotify

YouTube

Piracy was one of the original driving forces behind the digital content marketplace. Without Peer-to-peer (P2P) we may never have had Spotify, iPlayer or Netflix, all of which were direct responses to the demand and behaviours created by piracy. Now as streaming drives both music and video revenues, P2P is less central a force than it once was.

Game Consumer Segmentation
Aficionados Drive Adoption

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Karol Severin

July 2017

passive majority

consumer segmentation

forgotten fans

Barriers between the traditionally isolated PC, console and mobile games formats are gradually breaking down. This is happening on the device level (Nintendo Switch), title level (e.g. multiplatform Minecraft gameplay), the development level (Unity) and the corporate level (Console gaming companies buying their way into mobile and vice versa).

TV Show Fandom
Measuring TV Shows’ Real Appeal

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Mark Mulligan

July 2017

Streaming

US

UK

The TV industry is in a measurement crisis. Ever more, viewing is shifting from the linear schedule and leading streaming services are heavily guarded about their data, creating a measurement blind spot. Social behaviour and piracy activity provide an additional source of information, but not an alternative.

SVOD User Deep Dive
TV's Specialisation Period

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Tim Mulligan

June 2017

Apple

Amazon

Amazon

SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) is now the default mainstream video on demand consumption behaviour for TV-like content. Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are now the twin lenses behind measuring overall SVOD engagement. Netflix and Amazon users over-index on all SVOD consumption metrics tracked and this underlines the importance of engaging with these segments.

Paid News
Legacy Titles and New Media Compete For Share Of Digital Voice

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Zach Fuller

June 2017

Apple

Amazon

Google

In an economy based on attention, the monetisation of news in 2017 balances declining advertising revenues against a push towards building subscribers. Emerging business models and shifts in consumer behaviour are reshaping news monetisation and directly impacting the publishers of news content.

Mapping Daily Active Gamers Across Platforms
Diversity Is The Name Of The Game

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Karol Severin

June 2017

Xbox

Facebook

PlayStation

The Daily Active User (DAU) is a common engagement metric, often used in gauging companies’ performance and value. In gaming, DAUs vary markedly across mobile, PC, console and social. The differences are seen in penetration rates, demographics, engagement and spending trends.

Call Of Duty Fan Profile
Hardcore Gamers Become Video Fans

Karol Severin

June 2017

aaa title fans

triple a title fans

Call of Duty

Though Call of Duty (CoD) fans show similar behaviours to the fans of other AAA Games titles, demographically they more closely resemble hard-core gamers. What is more, the amount of time they spend gaming causes them to under-index certain non-game, mainstream digital activities like mobile messaging.

Voice Control
Market Strategy for the Next Major Hardware Paradigm

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Zach Fuller

May 2017

Apple

Marketing

Amazon

Acting as a Trojan horse in consumer electronics, voice control slipped under the radar compared to more bombastic new technologies such as Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence, to quietly become a potential paradigm shift in the computer interface.

Grand Theft Auto Fan Profile
The Mainstream Hardcore Gamers

Karol Severin

May 2017

YouTube

Deezer

Apple Music

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is among the most popular console game title franchises in the market. Despite the controversy, the brand has managed to establish a solid fan foothold across genders and ages. GTA fans are digitally sophisticated and engaged users (albeit under-indexing in messaging app usage) with a strong affinity for online video and for mobile gaming.

Why Netflix Is A Next Generation Network And Amazon Is A Next Generation Operator
Emerging next generation operator and network assets profiles

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Tim Mulligan

May 2017

Amazon

Amazon

Netflix

The shift to digital consumption has brought SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) to the fore. And leading the charge both domestically in the US and internationally are Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Netflix is now in 190 territories and Amazon Prime Video is now available in 242 separate territories.

State Of Freemium Games Q1 2017
A Comprehensive Assessment Of Freemium Game Dynamics In The Top 100 Grossing Charts

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Karol Severin

April 2017

Apple

Freemium

google play

The sheer importance and popularity of freemium games in the app economy is evident across the globe as they capture the lion’s share of both the top 100 grossing overall charts, as well as gaming charts globally. But behind the global popularity of freemium games are individual regions at various levels of market maturity, platform penetrations, publisher competitiveness and consumer preferences, which together drive regional nuances for freemium game economy dynamics.

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