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2024 audio consumer profile
Habits, platforms, and personas

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Laura Fisher
Apple
Spotify
YouTube
This report presents MIDiA’s audio consumer survey data with a view to understand the global audio consumer.This report is a compilation of the most recent MIDiA audio data. Key data in this report: Platforms that podcast monthly listeners use to access their podcasts, Q4 2024, global Podcast monthly listeners main ways of discovering podcasts, Q3 2024, global Total number of audio subscriptions paid for per consumer, Q4 2024, global Average weekly hours spent listening to audiobooks vs.
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The audio creator opportunity
Audio creator behaviours and monetisation potential

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Rutger Rosenborg
Creators
Subscriptions
Spotify
Historically, YouTubers and TikTok influencers have received the lion’s share of mainstream attention as a creator class – but audio creators are increasingly active on the same digital platforms and operating within the same formats. As a result, the audio creator has become a jack of all trades, moving between copyediting, audio editing, and video editing.
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MIDiA’s 2025 predictions
It’s social’s stage now

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Mark Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Tatiana Cirisano, Ben Woods, Rutger Rosenborg, Rhys Elliott and Olivia Jones
Apple
Spotify
YouTube
The creator economy reshaped entertainment in the first half of the 2020s and social wasthe big winner, now positioned at the centre of the entertainment economy. In 2025 wewill see the second-order effects begin to play out, set against the backdrop of attentionsaturation, content commodification, and increased focus on profit.
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MIDiA Research 2024-2031 global social forecasts
New frontiers and strong growth ahead

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Hanna Kahlert and Mark Qi
YouTube
Facebook
Instagram
More than ever, social platforms are the de facto way that consumers interact not only with entertainment but with the internet itself. As internet access expands in emerging markets and social platforms continue to eat up digital entertainment consumption in developed ones, further growth is inevitable because the market has: The ability to grow user numbers The ability to grow time spent by those users The ability to make more money from that time spent, both from ads and increasingly from new subscription offerings Social as it was in the 2000s and 2010s has matured.
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Not all social entertainment behaviour is created equal
Audience deep dive

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Hanna Kahlert
Spotify
YouTube
Xbox
Social is an integral part of entertainment consumption This report presents key data and insights about the advanced overlaps between social behaviour (both on digital platforms and in real life) and entertainment consumption. It looks at data from nine markets, featuring segments of social platform users and the audiences of different forms of entertainment, as well as fandom behaviours and monetisation opportunities.
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Livestreaming strategy in a social-video world
Work with UGC, not against it

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Tatiana Cirisano
live
Amazon Prime
gigs
Livestreamed concerts are establishing themselves as complementary experiences, rather than replacements for in-person gigs. A picture of the average livestreamer — older millennials who are entertainment super-consumers — is coming into focus. Now, as the rise of social video coincides with the return of in-person concerts and festivals, user-generated content (UGC) at shows is joining the digital concert mix.
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