Reports: Stranger Things

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Burnishing the back catalogue
Retention in an inflationary era

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Ben Woods

May 2023

Spotify

Netflix

Disney

With inflation squeezing commissioning budgets, streaming-TV services are battling to demonstrate value to consumers who risk churning under pressure from the cost-of-living crisis. The big spend on new shows to grow playbook is not only unsustainable, but also out-of-step with the consumer appetite for classic content.

Rebooting video fandom
Games as a video streaming genre

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Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Perry Gresham, Samuel Griffin and Ben Woods

March 2023

Apple

Apple TV

Netflix

With gamers being mainstream, video streaming services and their content offerings can benefit by increasing focus on the preferences of gamers. Crucially, this enables subscription video on demand (SVOD) services to drive engagement, broaden reach and improve retention.

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.

Social media marketing is becoming its own cultural moment

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Hanna Kahlert and Ashleigh Millar

October 2022

Spotify

YouTube

Facebook

Audiences are changing the ways they interact with entertainment, as well as how they respond to advertising and marketing designed to promote it. Audiences are increasingly creative and engage in lean-through behaviours, are less tolerant of ads, and want more authenticity in their digital social lives.

Scenes
A new lens for music marketing

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Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

August 2022

Spotify

YouTube

Facebook

Entertainment consumption and fandom are fragmenting in the internet era as a result of the steady erosion of linear audiences, the rise of asynchronous consumption, and the increased sophistication of personalisation algorithms. Consequently, identity and culture are fragmenting as well.

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 asset, has created the opportunity for the leveraging non-music IP for video audiences to build a new revenue stream that is free from the pre-digital constraints of the music industry.

The changing context of consumption
Emerging consumer trends in a re-saturated attention economy

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Hanna Kahlert

July 2021

Spotify

Amazon

Netflix

Rampant attention competition has driven changes in entertainment consumption itself, exacerbated by the last year’s attention boom. Quality of attention and quantity of attention are increasingly differentiated, making adjacent behaviours more valuable than ever to track sentiment and consumer expression.

Cultural Trends in 2021
Navigating a New Normal

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Hanna Kahlert

December 2020

Apple

Apple

Spotify

Behaviours under coronavirus-driven lockdowns accelerated underlying digital consumption trends. Remote working and ongoing restrictions mean streaming behaviour is up across formats and demographics at the same time that some traditional entertainment formats effectively ceased.

Cultural Trends in 2021
Navigating a New Normal

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Hanna Kahlert

December 2020

Apple

Apple

Spotify

Behaviours under coronavirus-driven lockdowns accelerated underlying digital consumption trends. Remote working and ongoing restrictions mean streaming behaviour is up across formats and demographics at the same time that some traditional entertainment formats effectively ceased.

US Video Consumer Behaviour Q4 2019
End of the Beginning for the Streaming Transition

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Tim Mulligan

January 2020

Streaming video

Apple TV

Netflix

This report presents key trends and analysis from MIDiA’s quarterly Video Brand Tracker survey, including devices for viewing, video streaming activities, subscription video on demand (SVOD), demographics, video streaming app users, and top-streamed TV shows.

TV Network Rankings
Brand Equity and the Weaponisation of Originals

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Amanda Stears

November 2019

US

UK

YouTube

The big streaming networks Netflix and Amazon have become the powerhouses of video brand equity by simultaneously weaponising TV shows as acquisition tools and assimilating the brands of traditional networks through association with their shows. The disconnect between original TV networks and global audiences is becoming wider as local networks and streaming services gain audience appeal and relevance.

TV Network Rankings
Brand Equity and the Weaponisation of Originals

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Amanda Stears

November 2019

US

UK

YouTube

The big streaming networks Netflix and Amazon have become the powerhouses of video brand equity by simultaneously weaponising TV shows as acquisition tools and assimilating the brands of traditional networks through association with their shows. The disconnect between original TV networks and global audiences is becoming wider as local networks and streaming services gain audience appeal and relevance.

The Post-Peak Attention Economy
What’s Next for Entertainment?

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Karol Severin

September 2019

Consumer behaviour

Apple

Spotify

With only 24 hours in a day and an ever-growing number of entertainment services competing for consumer choice to spend them on, consumers have reached the limits of their available time – and therefore attention – to allocate to propositions across the digital market.

TV Show Fandom
Streaming Redefines TV Show Success

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Amanda Stears

August 2019

Streaming

Streaming video

Apple TV

The scripted drama boom and the rise of streaming have dramatically reshaped TV consumption and viewing habits. The act of watching a TV show is no longer confined within the four walls of the living room, nor is it constricted by a fixed schedule. Measuring the success of a show can no longer be done by traditional ratings alone, but instead a wider range of metrics, including brand awareness, TV viewership, streaming and fandom, have all become critical in judging the success of a show in the streaming era.

Netflix After Q2 2019
Post-Peak or Strategic Reset?

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Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Amanda Stears

July 2019

Streaming

Streaming video

Apple TV

With a market capitalisation 122 times its current annual net income, Netflix suddenly finds itself scrambling to justify its price-to-earnings ratio. The July 17th earnings call knocked 11% off the market capitalisation of the poster-child of the streaming era in a matter of two days – equivalent to the entire market capitalisation of Snap Inc, another former darling of the tech and media landscape.

TV Fandom Q2 2018
SVOD Audiences Become Mainstream

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Alistair Taylor

November 2018

Consumer behaviour

US

UK

TV fandom underpins viewing across all platforms and territories, but is being reshaped by streaming, with audiences having much greater control over what they watch. This choice-led viewing provides the foundations for deeper degrees of audience fandom, but also the diminishment of more passive audience elements.

Managing Fandom
Competing For Audience Attention Across Content Formats

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Georgia Meyer

November 2018

digital natives

Netflix

hulu

In the distributed digital landscape audience overlaps are sometimes unexpected and nuanced; the competition for attention goes beyond the simple binary choices of one TV show or another – i.e. video subscribers can be gamers too. The battleground is about time spent with content – of a broader type, including games.

Gaming And Video Fandom Overlap
Cannibalisation Risks For Games And SVOD Releases

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Karol Severin

December 2017

Stranger Things

mobile gamers

console owners

Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD), binge-watching and weekly usage of Netflix have penetrated the mainstream among gamers. Behind these propositions are companies with large marketing budgets and effective channels enabling them to reach their audiences.

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.

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.

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