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Spotify Q4 2018 Earnings
Strong Subscriber Growth With a Hint of Profitability but Long-Term ARPU Deflation

Mark Mulligan

12 Feb 2019

Subscriptions Streaming Streaming Music

Spotify finished 2018 strongly, over performing in both subscriber and ad-supported MAU additions. This was accompanied by Spotify’s first ever profitable quarter and two major podcast acquisitions early in 2019, hinting at a positive year ahead. However, at the same time, premium ARPU continues a long-term decline.

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Spotify Q3 2018 Earnings
Metrics on Track But Investors Not Convinced

Mark Mulligan

6 Nov 2018

Subscriptions Streaming Streaming Music

Spotify’s Q3 2018 earnings once again showed continued solid progress across most of its performance metrics, with strong progress in many areas. However, weakening investor confidence across US tech stocks as a whole, coupled perhaps unrealistic investor expectations saw Spotify’s share price fall again.

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Radio 2018
Streaming’s Continuing Impact

Mark Mulligan

31 Oct 2018

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This is a 2018 update to MIDiA’s 2017 report exploring the impact of streaming on radio audiences. The underlying data comes from MIDiA’s quarterly consumer tracker which was first fielded in Q4 2016. Companies and brands mentioned in this report: 2GB, 702 ABC, AdsWizz, BBC, BOOM-FM, CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, CHFI-FM, CHUM-FM, Capital FM, D...

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Streaming Media Consumption
Video Leads The Way

Zach Fuller

22 Oct 2018

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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 Q2 2017 and Q2 2018 across music, video, games and social.

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Speaker Market Shares
Amazon Ahead in a Crowded Market

Mark Mulligan

16 Oct 2018

Subscriptions Streaming Music Subscriptions

Digital music pushed music out of the home speaker and into the earphone. Over recent years this has created a booming market for headphones but speakers are fighting back, driven in large part by tech majors using smart speakers as a Trojan horse for expanding into the home.

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Headphones Market Shares
Apple Takes the Lead

Mark Mulligan

15 Oct 2018

Subscriptions Streaming Music Subscriptions

Headphones are the physical manifestation of streaming music. With the focus of listening shifted from home speakers to smartphones, headphones have become ubiquitous. But, whereas convenience was unchallenged in the early years, consumers have started to place more importance on quality.

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MIDiA Data Spotlight: Podcasts
Riding Streaming’s Wave

Zach Fuller

3 Oct 2018

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This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: Podcasts are Gaining Real Traction, Particularly in More Developed Streaming Markets Percentage of Consumers that Listen to Podcasts, Q1 2018 Podcast listenership is growing and could prove an important growth vehicle for streaming services.

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Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q2 2018

Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2018

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 Q2 2017 and Q2 2018 across music, video, games and social.

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Music Streaming Services Market Shares
H1 2018 Subscriber Share Update

Mark Mulligan

13 Sep 2018

Subscriptions Streaming Music Subscriptions

This report provides a global level mid-year update to MIDiA’s Music Subscriber Market Shares report, presenting H1 2018 figures. Companies and brands mentioned in this report: Amazon, Amazon Prime Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, Apple, Apple Music,...

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Pandora
Mapping Its Place in the US Streaming Market

Mark Mulligan

7 Sep 2018

Streaming Streaming Music Apple

Pandora is the granddaddy of streaming music, clocking 10 million active users before Spotify had even gone into public beta. It remains the most widely used audio streaming service in the US, but is no longer the golden child of the space. Despite having been long positioned as the long-term future of radio, investors have become increasingly conc...

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Streaming Services Market Shares 2.0

Mark Mulligan

30 Aug 2018

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This report includes the key findings of MIDiA’s Global Music Subscriber Market Share Model in which we present the subscribers, revenues and market shares of streaming services in more than 20 different countries. This report contains charts and analysis for 11 countries including consumer survey data, while the complete excel model is posted al...

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State of the YouTube Music Economy 2.0
A Turning Point for All Parties

Mark Mulligan

14 Aug 2018

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This report is now into its second edition, updating the most comprehensive YouTube music dataset ever compiled in order to present all sides of the argument in an objective and impartial manner. The report provides an exhaustive view of the market for revenues, ad rates, stream rates, users, streams and subscribers.

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Spotify Q2 2018 Earnings
More Needed from Emerging Markets and Ad Supported

Mark Mulligan

30 Jul 2018

Subscriptions Streaming Streaming Music

Spotify’s Q2 2018 earnings show continued solid progress across most of its performance metrics. However, investor scrutiny is intensifying, especially with the growing subscriber arms race in the US becoming — albeit incorrectly — perceived as a litmus test for global success.

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Emerging Music Markets
Streaming’s Third Wave

Mark Mulligan

9 Jul 2018

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With streaming growth set to slow in mature western markets by 2019, the next wave of fast growth will come from a mixture of mid-tier markets such as Mexico, Brazil, Japan and Germany. Beyond that, the streaming market will need to look towards emerging markets for growth.

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Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q1 2018

Mark Mulligan

29 Jun 2018

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 Q1 2018 across music, video, games and social.

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Tech Majors Market Shares Q1 2018
Advertising and Subscriptions Power Growth

Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

7 Jun 2018

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In Q1 2018 advertising revenue and services revenue drove strong growth for the tech majors – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, with Alphabet and Apple retaining their respective leads in each of those revenue segments but losing market share. Subscriptions were also a big part of the Q1 narrative; Amazon and Apple highlighted significant subscr...

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Tencent Tech Investment
Pursuing Aggressive Growth in the West

Alistair Taylor

29 May 2018

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Tencent, currently the fifth most valuable public company in the world, saw income from ‘other gains’ increase in Q4 2017 by 800% on Q4 2016 figures, going $149.6 million to $1.2 billion. These other gains comprised one-off gains from IPOs, tax rebates and investment subsidies.

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India and China Media Trends 2018

Zach Fuller

18 May 2018

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China and India are undergoing significant change in their media industries. Both countries are viewed as two of the world’s potentially most lucrative economies for digital content, based upon their spectacular GDP per capita growth rate and their billion-plus respective populations.

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2018 India SVOD Consumer Deep Dive

Tim Mulligan

11 May 2018

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India has seen a dramatic rise in engagement with premium video services, fuelled by a combination of mass adoption of mobile technology and rapidly rising disposable incomes. However, India’s SVOD market still lags significantly behind the US and China in terms of revenues and subscribers.

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Spotify Q1 2018 Earnings
Steady Course But Is It Enough?

Mark Mulligan

7 May 2018

Subscriptions Streaming Streaming Music

On the 2 May 2018 Spotify released its first quarterly earnings. The results fundamentally represent a continuation of the figures presented in Spotify’s F1 filing and show strong results across most performance metrics. Nonetheless, investors were not satisfied (apparently spooked by growing losses), resulting in a dip in Spotify’s stock price.

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