streaming Reports from MIDiA Research

State Of The Streaming Nation 2.1 (Mid-Year 2017 Update)
The Definitive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market

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Report by Mark Mulligan

30 Oct 2017

2016 was the year that streaming turned the recorded music business into a good news story, with revenue growth so strong that it drove nearly a billion dollars of total growth. Leading streaming services...

Streaming Services Market Shares
Spotify Leads Across Most Markets

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Report by Mark Mulligan

16 Oct 2017

streaming

music streaming

subscriptions

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...

Amazon Music
The Dark Horse Comes Out Of The Shadows

Report by Mark Mulligan

25 Sep 2017

£1,500.00 excl. VAT

Amazon

streaming music

streaming

Back in the days when online music meant online CD sales, Amazon was the king. Then, along came Apple with iTunes music store and Amazon saw the throne snatched from its hands. No sooner had Apple started...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends
Q2 2017

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Report by Mark Mulligan

31 Aug 2017

£1,160.26 excl. VAT

streaming

streaming video

streaming music

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...

TV Show Fandom Q2 2017
Measuring The Impact Of US TV

Report by Mark Mulligan

15 Aug 2017

£3,000.00 excl. VAT

tv show fans

scripted drama

tv

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...

Content Piracy
Piracy Reinvented In The Streaming Era

Report by Mark Mulligan

3 Aug 2017

£3,000.00 excl. VAT

piracy

p2p

peer to peer

Piracy was one of the original driving forces behind the digital content marketplace. Without Peer-to-peer (P2P) we may never have had Spotify, iPlayer or Netflix, all of which were direct responses to...

TV Show Fandom
Measuring TV Shows’ Real Appeal

Report by Mark Mulligan

21 Jul 2017

scripted drama

tv shows

tv

The TV industry is in a measurement crisis. Ever more, viewing is shifting from the linear schedule and leading streaming services are heavily guarded about their data, creating a measurement blind spot....

Spotify Earnings
Growth Still Comes At A Cost

Report by Mark Mulligan

19 Jun 2017

streaming

streaming music

Streaming economics

Spotify’s 2016 accounts reveal strong growth in both revenue and user, as well as improved conversion to paid. But they also show growing losses (both in absolute and relative terms) for streaming music’s...

Brazil Streaming Music Market
Breaking The Mould

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Report by Mark Mulligan

12 Jun 2017

£750.00 excl. VAT

streaming music

streaming subscriptions

ayce

The successful markets in the traditional music industry were those with highest levels of consumer spending. It was an industry biased towards North America and Europe. Part of the transformative potential...

State Of The Streaming Nation 2
The Definitive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market

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Report by Mark Mulligan

31 May 2017

streaming

music streaming

subscriptions

2016 was the year that streaming turned the recorded music business into a good news story, with revenue growth so strong that it drove nearly a billion dollars of total growth. Leading streaming services...

Major Label Results Q1 2017
Full Stream Ahead

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Report by Mark Mulligan

17 May 2017

recorded music

record labels

label market shares

2016 was the turnaround year for the global recorded music business. The prevailing sentiment among battle-scarred label executives was one of cautious optimism. The first quarter results for 2017 suggest...

Streaming Music Growth
How The S-Curve Will Determine Growth

Report by Mark Mulligan

24 Apr 2017

streaming music

streaming subscriptions

streaming

Streaming music drove trade revenues of $5.4 billion in 2016, up 57% from $3.5 billion in 2015 while music subscribers grew from 68.5 million to 106.3 million over the same period. The rate at which the...

Q4: 2016 Streaming Music Market Update
Competition Is Hotting Up

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Report by Mark Mulligan

4 Apr 2017

Music

streaming

music streaming

2015 was the year in which streaming music came of age but 2016 was the year when it hit the long anticipated milestone of 100 million subscribers, transforming the global recorded music business. 2016...

The Experience Economy
The Value Shift In Media Assets

Report by Zach Fuller

22 Mar 2017

experiential economy

streaming

messaging apps

With content now a more difficult proposition in itself to sell directly, the overall experience becomes, for many, their central core monetisable proposition. We have already seen this development in...

Streaming Music Pricing
Inelastic Stretching

Report by Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2017

£1,000.00 excl. VAT

streaming music

streaming subscriptions

ayce

Pricing has long been an issue for streaming music subscriptions, with the $9.99 price point having the double challenge of reducing the spending of the most valuable music buyers and being higher than...

Overcoming VR Adoption Hurdles

Report by Zach Fuller

16 Jan 2017

proprietary media

playback devices

media consumption

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...

MIDiA Research Predictions 2017
The Year Of The Platform

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Report by Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

30 Nov 2016

VR

virtual reality

streaming

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...

Paid Content Consumer Deep Dive
The Emergence Of A Sophisticated Audience

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Report by Zach Fuller

29 Nov 2016

Freemium

adblocking

proprietary media

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...

Spotify User Profile
An Increasingly Mainstream Yet Digitally Sophisticated Audience

Report by Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2016

Spotify

spotoify users

Spotify users

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...

Soundcloud User Profile
Male Dominated Music Sophisticates

Report by Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2016

Soundcloud

sound cloud

soundclud

20,000 Foot View SoundCloud is in many respects the odd one out in the audio streaming landscape. While the market is dominated by major label orientated subscription services like Spotify, Apple Music,...

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