Reports: Entertainment and Fandom

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Spotify User Profile
An Increasingly Mainstream Yet Digitally Sophisticated Audience

Mark Mulligan

November 2016

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 oppor...

How Consumers Adopt Technology
Why The S-Curve Rules

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Mark Mulligan

November 2016

consumer behavior

early adopters

mainstream

Consumers adopt technology in predictable ways, and even though technology adoption is far faster now than it has ever been, it continues to follow traditional growth patterns. Mobile app stores are enabling technologies to reach global scale and mainstream adoption within their addressable audiences at a far faster rate than ever before.

Next Generation TV Operators
Reconsolidation Is A-Coming

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Tim Mulligan

October 2016

mobile apps

SVOD

OTT

Nearly a decade has passed since Netflix launched its subscription video service in 2007, and the intervening nine years have seen an explosion in competing offerings. The result is adisjointed premium video experience for the digital consumer, with content fragmented across multiple siloed competing services.

Adblocker User Deep Dive
High Value Users that Cannot Be Ignored

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Karol Severin

October 2016

adblocking

mobile advertising

adblockers

Adblocking is arguably the single biggest disruptive threat digital media businesses have faced. But it is the users of adblockers and their motivations rather than the technology itself that matter most. Adblocker users comprise a segment that advertisers are no longer reaching online and on mobile.

Video Consumer Trends In The UK
An Increasingly Diverse Consumer Landscape

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Tim Mulligan

September 2016

SVOD

TVOD

Messaging apps

UK consumers are becoming increasingly sophisticated online video users. This, though, is not entirely their choice, but it is instead a reflection of the increasingly complex services landscape. Messaging platforms are also playing a bigger role than ever.

Pokémon Go User Deep Dive
Life After The Hype

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Karol Severin

September 2016

pokemon go

pokemon

niantic

With over 100 million downloads and 20 million daily active users, Pokémon Go has taken the digital world by storm. Although the initial hype is inevitably becoming grounded by reality, Pokémon Go is still performing strongly. Although niche by overall digital measures, the Pokémon Go player user base has a sizeable foothold, and behavioural tra...

Music in Virtual Reality
An Opportunity To Fill The Content Void

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Zach Fuller

September 2016

music industry

music videos

virtual reality

A transformational technology in need of a meaningful content offering meets a wounded industry looking to new revenue streams. Despite their obvious differences, music (as one of the first and most vigorously disrupted mediums by the internet), and Virtual Reality (as a poster-child of technology’s brave new world), could yet prove natural allie...

Brazil Video Market Country Profile
Social Video and Pay-TV Vie for Dominance

Leo Morel

August 2016

Brazil

Online video

video consumers

Despite the current period of economic and political crises, Brazil has become one of the main digital video consumption markets globally on account of smartphone and YouTube proliferation. Nevertheless, traditional media such as free-to-air and pay-TV still have a major presence among Brazil’s cultural habits.

Candy Crush, Clash Of Clans And The Future Of Mobile Games
From Silos To Ecosystems

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Karol Severin

August 2016

mobile games

clash of clans

freemium games

Though mobile games differ largely by genre, demographics and business models, most share the status of social connector and cultural identifier. Much like music companies, mobile gaming companies often struggle with conversion to payment as well as a regular production of hits to retain momentum in the long term.

Virtual Reality
The Content Conundrum

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Tim Mulligan

August 2016

scripted drama

VR

virtual reality

At the start of 2016 the tech hype machine was going into overdrive over the potential for Virtual Reality to finally break through to the mainstream. January’s CES in Las Vegas featured the launch of Fox Studio’s The Martian Experience, their second VR project in conjunction with a major big screen production.

VR Vendor Landscape
Virtual Reality’s Path to Mainstream Entertainment

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Zach Fuller

July 2016

technology adoption

VR

VR gaming

VR’s renaissance has an edge on other technologies: romance. Experiences in virtual reality are being evangelised less as entertainment than as a new era of humanity, giving users previously inconceivable levels of exploration in a safe and inconsequential environment.

Australia Video Market Country Profile
A Sophisticated Market With Strong Growth To Come

Tim Mulligan

July 2016

Australia

Online video

video consumers

Ranked as the 15th richest country globally by GDP per capita and with the world’s second highest smartphone penetration rate, Australia is a developed market poised at the forefront of the mobile transition. This, combined with its English speaking consumer base, means it is frequently at the vanguard of early video service roll outs by tech com...

Mobile Messaging Platforms
The Mobile Experience Revolution

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Karol Severin

July 2016

arpu

mobile app economy

messaging platforms

The world of mobile consumer experiences is undergoing a seismic shift with messaging apps a driving force. With 6.4 billion cumulative monthly active messaging app users (compared to the 1.5 billion Android and 1 billion iOS devices) messaging apps are the smartphone killer app.

Music Consumer Segmentation 2016
Subscriptions Swell Aficionado Numbers

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Mark Mulligan

July 2016

Music consumers

Subscriptions

Streaming

Midway through the streaming transition, consumer segmentation is more complex and nuanced than ever before. The traditional methods of segmenting by spending behaviour retain a core value, while those based on attitudes are most valuable for understanding streaming consumers.

Video And Messaging Apps
Engaging Tomorrow’s Audiences On Today’s Platforms

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Tim Mulligan

June 2016

Video

Online video

emerging markets

With two of the top ten largest global online video service providers now focusing on messaging services as a way to deliver video content to their highly-engaged user-base, mobile messaging services are becoming an increasingly important part of the video landscape.

App Store Economics
Games Still Dominate But Charts Now Only Tell Part Of The Story

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Karol Severin

June 2016

app store

app economy

app charts

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Brexit Implications
How the UK's EU Exit Could Impact Media and Tech

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Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

June 2016

Streaming Music

UK

Streaming video

The UK’s vote to leave the European Union sent shockwaves that will continue to reverberate across the globe for years to come. While the potential geopolitical permutations may prove to be era defining, the implications for media and tech companies could also be dramatic.

Online Video Vendor Landscape
Key Players in the Online Video Value Chain

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Tim Mulligan

May 2016

Online video

Messaging apps

online video vendor landscape

2016 is the year that online video moves to the centre of the digital economy. Any content based digital business has to adapt to demand for video among its user base and find ways of incorporating it into their core offerings. Thus the music streaming services have suddenly found themselves needing to pivot into video to remain relevant to Digital...

State Of The YouTube Nation
A Definitive Assessment Of The Global Youtube Economy

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Tim Mulligan

April 2016

YouTube

emerging markets

Latin America

The YouTube landscape is changing. While North America still dominates in terms of channel subscribers and views, the second places for these metrics are now held by Latin America and Asia respectively. Both emerging regions show diverging consumption patterns, with Latin America over indexing on the proportion of subscribers-to-views, and Asia ove...

Decoding The Adblocking Consumer
Digital Advertising’s P2P Moment

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Karol Severin

April 2016

ad block

adblocking

adblockers

This is the second report in the MIDiA Adblocking report series. Adblocking is gaining consumer momentum in terms of both awareness and adoption, which is in turn testing the effectiveness of publishers’ responses. Many of the tactics deployed help slow some of the short-term revenue loss, but do little to address the longer-term situation.

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