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UK media consumption Q4 2024
A mature market with niche growth prospects

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Laura Fisher
This report presents MIDiA consumer entertainment data across media, music, audio, and games. Key data and insights: Time spent and weekly active users (by format and platform)for streaming music, podcasts, social media, games consoles and more. All data refers to the UK only (n = 1,000) except for ‘all-country average’ referring to the weighted average of all nine countries surveyed.
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Music streaming consumer profile Q4 2024
Stabilisation and fandom slowdown

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Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano
Consumer music behaviours are both stabilising and showing signs of coming change. Change that could be challenging for all music business stakeholders, especially with regards to fandom monetisation. This report presents data-focused visuals and impactful analysis of trends and anomalies that will inform your understanding of what is happening to today’s music consumer, why it is happening, and where these trends are heading.
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Podcasts Q2 2020
Spotify Takes an Early Lead

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Mark Mulligan
Podcasts have become the next battle front for audio. Spotify’s ambitious content and product strategy have enabled it to become an early leader, but the podcast market is still in its infancy, with adoption far lower than radio or streaming music. Podcasts have greater long-term market potential than music streaming but with many divergent objectives among key players, the interplay of product and content strategy will delineate the competitive marketplace.
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D2C 2020
Media, Tech and Communications Majors Go Head to Head

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Tim Mulligan
The current division between the new video D2C entrants of 2019/2020 has revealed a strategic split between those that are leveraging established distribution advantages versus those focused on monetising existing content assets. The current market distortions wrought by the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic have placed power firmly in the hands of services able to leverage zeitgeisty originals combined with libraries of proven content and brand assets.
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TV Network Rankings
Brand Equity and the Weaponisation of Originals

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Amanda Stears
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.
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SVOD Stacking
Direct to Consumer Services Set to Move the Needle

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Tim Mulligan
In the attention economy, everyone is your competitor – a point well made by Netflix’s Reed Hastings’ observation that the company is now vying for viewer time with the popular game Fortnite. Now that we are entering the post-peak phase of the attention economy, the focus for video is shifting to the overlap between subscription video on demand (SVOD) users and the additional services they use.
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