Reports: Entertainment and Fandom

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Canada Video Market
Strong Pay-TV Market Creates A Big Appetite For Video

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Tim Mulligan
streaming subscriptions
Netflix
Amazon Prime
With a third of Canadians subscribing to traditional pay-TV, the country has a strong appetite for online video. This is demonstrated by the 20.3% of the population who are now Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) subscribers. With the SVOD market already more than two thirds the size of the traditional pay-TV market, Canada is a litmus test for whether traditional pay-TV is able to co-exist with SVOD.
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Netflix Q1 2017
International Picks Up The Slack

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Tim Mulligan
Amazon
streaming subscriptions
Netflix
With Netflix on course to pass the psychologically significant 100 million subscriber mark, the company’s Q1 2017 quarterly earnings are particularly significant. With 43.2% of the global SVOD market and a presence in 190 differing territories the only major piece missing from the picture is Netflix’s failure to launch in China, the largest and fastest growing market for digital services.
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The State Of The SVOD Nation 2017
Global SVOD Markets And Consumer Trends

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Tim Mulligan
streaming subscriptions
emerging markets
SVOD
Despite the fear of an impending bubble bursting, Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) has never been in a stronger position globally. Although still dominated by the US as the largest market and as the home of the two largest SVOD services, the non-US market is growing fast, with territories such as Singapore experiencing a 20% increase in SVOD service availability in 2016.
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Paid Versus Free
Monetisation In The Post-Sales World

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Zach Fuller
Apple
Apple
Spotify
As the app economy matures into an amorphous content landscape, a picture emerges of how free and pure subscription models impact the bottom-line of the creative industries across music, online video, publishing and gaming. In one corner, freemium has been accused of devaluing content as a product, yet it is also credited with driving higher revenues from super-fans who previously had their spending capped by blanket pricing, at least in sectors like games (music still caps spending).
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Overcoming VR Adoption Hurdles

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Zach Fuller
Streaming
Radio
Paid Content
When it comes to disruptive technology, emerging formats such as Virtual Reality have been here before. The part about innovation that can so often omitted by uplifting TED lectures is that whilst these technologies present incredible opportunities, amongst the hype and excitement are often serious debates on how differently various contributors within the technology ultimately view the world and the value that they contribute.
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MIDiA Research Predictions 2017
The Year Of The Platform

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Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller
Streaming
Streaming Music
Paid Content
As we correctly predicted, 2016 was the year video ate the world. 2017 is going to be shaped by the battle for consumer attention through formatting and distribution wars. VR is likely to cede further ground to AR, bots will become established, while messaging apps add to their dominant position (even though user growth will slow).
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Paid Content Consumer Deep Dive
The Emergence Of A Sophisticated Audience

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Zach Fuller
Subscriptions
Streaming
Online video
In the old world, there were clear demarcations between media types, bordered with proprietary media and playback devices. However, different entertainment forms now exist in more interdependent ecosystems than they did in the analogue era, with all-in-one app stores blurring the boundaries and turning media consumption into an amorphous whole where content types compete directly with each another for both time and money.
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Netflix User Profile
Mass Market Streaming Video Users

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Tim Mulligan
Streaming video
Netflix
Video subscriptions
Netflix is the poster child of Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) services with a rollout in 2016 to 130 territories worldwide and international subscribers accounting for 45% of users. A 2016 $1 billion bond issuance to fund increased content spend to $6 billion for 2017 underlines both the ambition and the resources being deployed by the company in its bid to grow into a mainstream international video provider.
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Spotify User Profile
An Increasingly Mainstream Yet Digitally Sophisticated Audience

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Mark Mulligan
Subscriptions
Streaming
Spotify
Spotify is the poster child of streaming music, having done more than any other company to grow the segment and to prove the freemium business model at scale. It has built an active user base that outshines any other freemium music service, and through tactics such as telco bundles and pricing discounts continues to squeeze every last drop of opportunity out of the $9.
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