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Stream, interact, repeat
Why SVOD needs a social engagement revolution

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Ben Woods

January 2023

YouTube

Netflix

roku

Audience engagement with subscription video on demand (SVOD) services is sliding, with multi-tasking on social media often relegating shows to background viewing. Social media is the threat, but also the catalyst for a radical recalibration of the SVOD viewing experience that will help these services claw back what is lost.

Esports bundle
Available for a limited time

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Karol Severin and Samuel Griffin

December 2022

Games

esports

Sports

This bundle contains three of our most recent esports reports, providing you with a wide selection of insights and content from our analysts. Take this opportunity to get some of our most recent data at a discounted price. Esports viewers update. A valuable segment with a (solvable) growth problem Esports currently struggle to attract consumers bey...

From video hardware to entertainment hardware
The gamer opportunity for smart TVs

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Tim Mulligan

November 2022

smart tvs

SVOD

d2c

Smart-TV-owning gamers skew older and combine increased consumption spend with an increased willingness to pay for content and entertainment more broadly. Smart-TV owners over-index for games consumption and in-game spending,offering an unparalleled platform distribution opportunity for cross-platform gamesdistributors such as Xbox Game Pass.

Streaming’s next growth phase
The necessity of differentiation

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Tatiana Cirisano

October 2022

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

DSPs have long been able to grow their subscriber bases despite all offering essentially the same experience. Yet the freemium model is reaching a saturation point, putting slow but steady pressure on DSPs to find new ways to grow subscribers and revenue.

Friction TV
Addressing the user experience disconnect in streaming TV

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Tim Mulligan

October 2022

Apple

Netflix

SVOD

Streaming TV is now the default way to consume TV content. However, the streaming TV era is now the friction TV era, due to the fragmented nature of the direct-to-consumer (D2C) siloed, competing brands. Consumers require multiple services with different user experiences to engage in the full range of TV content previously available in one ecosyste...

Hybrid shock
How ads will change SVOD

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Tim Mulligan

August 2022

Amazon

Apple TV

Netflix

The combined effects of market saturation for subscription video on demand (SVOD) alongside a growing cost-of-living crisis are forcing pureplay SVOD services to modify their ad-free propositions. Disney-owned Hulu has demonstrated the viability of an ad-supported SVOD basic plan, which now offers a blueprint for Disney+ and Netflix.

Music IP as video content
Why music fandom is strategically important for D2C

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Tim Mulligan

July 2022

Spotify

Vevo

Netflix

Music rightsholders are keen to leverage artist IP in an increasingly competitive direct-to-consumer video landscape, where appealing to silver streamers is a strategic play to minimise churn in an era of peak video subscriptions. The monetisable emerging long tail of video streaming, combined with the transformation of music IP into a content asse...

Music creator survey, Q4 2021
Redefining success

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Tatiana Cirisano

May 2022

Creators

Spotify

artist income

As the barriers to music creation continue to lower, more creators enter the field, yet it is becoming harder than ever to earn a living through music, with a finite amount of revenue being split ever more ways. The majority of professional music creators do not earn meaningful income through their craft and must cobble together income from a diver...

Video discovery
The new streaming battleground

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Tim Mulligan

January 2022

Discovery

Amazon

Apple TV

Now that video streaming consumer activity is mainstream (Netflix WAU is currently at 59%), the challenge is for video to maintain its dominance over competing media formats. At the heart of all this is surfacing relevant content – an area where TV has traditionally dominated.

Karaoke app user deep dive

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Mark Mulligan

November 2021

Streaming Music

apps

mobile apps

This report presents data concerning karaoke app users. This data is taken from MIDiA’s Q3 2021 consumer survey. The online survey comprised 9,000 respondents across the US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Brazil, South Korea. All country level samples were nationally representative with a 1,000 sample in each market.

From social media to creator tools
The evolution of UGC

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Hanna Kahlert

September 2021

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

Entertainment is suffering intense competition as audience attention time, already saturated before the pandemic, is hit by the gradual return of ‘in real life’ activities. A flurry of new propositions over the last year and a half, namely in streaming and social media, are competing on largely similar grounds – making differentiation ever mo...

Music creator tools forecast
Moving towards a hybrid future

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Mark Mulligan

September 2021

Creators

Apple

Spotify

Once upon a time, music software and hardware were distinct market segments, but now they are increasingly fusing into a network of hybrid creator tools ecosystems. Standalone hardware still has a vibrant future, but the real momentum lies with software, sounds, services and the hardware that supports them.

Creator hubs
Creator tools’ next growth driver

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Mark Mulligan and Kriss Thakrar

September 2021

Creators

Spotify

Artists

The emerging competitive dynamic between insurgents and incumbents is the catalyst for an unprecedented period of innovation in the music creator tools space. However, because this dynamic is underpinned by substantial institutional investment and strong market growth, the second order effect is the further fragmentation of an already congested and...

Addressable creator markets
An opportunity with many layers

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Mark Mulligan

July 2021

Apple

Apple

Artists

The music creator tools space is undergoing a change that is simultaneously renaissance and transformation. The creator culture boom has driven an unprecedented degree of investment and investor interest. However, because the music creator tools space is a collection of diverse products and services, an underlying challenge has been how to identify...

MIDiA Research video streaming subscription forecasts 2021-2027
Margins eclipse reach as developed markets dominate revenue growth

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Tim Mulligan

June 2021

Streaming

Apple

Video

This report presents the key figures, trends and drivers of MIDiA’s video streaming forecast model. The figures presented in this report are in billions of US dollars unless otherwise stated. An Excel file posted alongside this report provides complete country-level data, as well as a detailed methodology statement.

Games subscriptions
Early market leaders and consumer profiles emerge

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Karol Severin

May 2021

Consumer behaviour

Apple

YouTube

As games subscriptions grow, understanding gamers through the lens of their subscriptions becomes crucial. Monitoring the growth of games subscription services and the behavioural makeup of segments that emerge with them is becoming increasingly important for developers and publishers alike – be it to make decisions around platform prioritisation...

Live streamed concert demand
Ready for prime time

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Mark Mulligan, Karol Severin and Kriss Thakrar

May 2021

Spotify

Spotify

live music

Virtual concerts went from zero to a hundred at an unprecedented rate during the pandemic-shaped 2020, and the momentum carried through to 2021. But if lockdown years are like dog years, then so too the evolution of the current virtual event marketplace has been concertinaed.

Podcast audiences
Competing for attention

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Mark Mulligan

May 2021

US

UK

France

2020 was a big year for podcasts, with increased investment, M&A activity and industry moves. Audiences grew too, but still lag behind in hype and expectation, and a portion of this growth has come at the direct expense of music streaming and radio.

In-game spending
Cross-entertainment product strategy

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Karol Severin

April 2021

YouTube

multitasking

Twitch

Games revenue growth is about to slow, with in-game spending the sector set to retain most momentum. Simultaneously, other entertainment sectors will actively seek to monetise digital fandom. Future games revenue will need to tap opportunities beyond games-related spending alone, and the wider entertainment demands of consumers.

Creator culture
The song becomes the feed

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Mark Mulligan and Kriss Thakrar

April 2021

Creators

Spotify

Spotify

The creator tools marketplace is creating a revolution in the culture and business of music. The third decade of the millennium represents the opening of a new chapter for the music business, with the means of production and distribution fully democratised.

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