Video Reports from MIDiA Research

Next Generation TV Operators
Reconsolidation Is A-Coming

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Report by Tim Mulligan

31 Oct 2016

Next Generation TV Operators: Reconsolidation Is A-Coming Nearly a decade has passed since Netflix launched its subscription video service in 2007, and the intervening nine years have seen an explosion...

Music in Virtual Reality
An Opportunity To Fill The Content Void

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Report by Zach Fuller

30 Sep 2016

£750.00 excl. VAT

virtual reality

VR hardware

music industry

A transformational technology in need of a meaningful content offering meets a wounded industry looking to new revenue streams. Despite their obvious differences, music (as one of the first and most vigorously...

Video Consumer Trends In The UK
An Increasingly Diverse Consumer Landscape

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Report by Tim Mulligan

30 Sep 2016

UK Video Market

uk video consumer trends

UK consumer september survey

UK consumers are becoming increasingly sophisticated online video users. This, though, is not entirely their choice, but it is instead a reflection of the increasingly complex services landscape. Messaging...

Brazil Video Market Country Profile
Social Video and Pay-TV Vie for Dominance

Report by Leo Morel

24 Aug 2016

£750.00 excl. VAT

brazil

Online video

SVOD

Brazil Video Market Country Profile: Social Video And Pay-TV Vie For Dominance Despite the current period of economic and political crises, Brazil has become one of the main digital video consumption...

Virtual Reality
The Content Conundrum

Report by Tim Mulligan

22 Aug 2016

£1,000.00 excl. VAT

virtual reality

VR

VR content

20,000 Foot View At the start of 2016 the tech hype machine was going into overdrive over the potential for Virtual Reality to finally break through to the mainstream. January’s CES in Las Vegas featured...

VR Vendor Landscape
Virtual Reality’s Path to Mainstream Entertainment

Report by Zach Fuller

31 Jul 2016

£1,000.00 excl. VAT

virtual reality

VR

vr gaming

VR’s renaissance has an edge on other technologies: romance. Experiences in virtual reality are being evangelised less as entertainment than as a new era of humanity, giving users previously inconceivable...

Australia Video Market Country Profile
A Sophisticated Market With Strong Growth To Come

Report by Tim Mulligan

27 Jul 2016

£750.00 excl. VAT

SVOD

australia

Pay-TV

Ranked as the 15th richest country globally by GDP per capita and with the world’s second highest smartphone penetration rate, Australia is a developed market poised at the forefront of the mobile transition....

Video And Messaging Apps
Engaging Tomorrow’s Audiences On Today’s Platforms

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Report by Tim Mulligan

30 Jun 2016

messaging apps

Online video

emerging markets

With two of the top ten largest global online video service providers now focusing on messaging services as a way to deliver video content to their highly-engaged user-base, mobile messaging services...

Brexit Implications
How the UK's EU Exit Could Impact Media and Tech

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

28 Jun 2016

brexit

EU

Europe

The 20,000 Foot View The UK’s vote to leave the European Union sent shockwaves that will continue to reverberate across the globe for years to come. While the potential geopolitical permutations may...

Online Video Vendor Landscape
Key Players in the Online Video Value Chain

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Report by Tim Mulligan

31 May 2016

online video vendor landscape

messaging apps

Online video

20,000 Foot View 2016 is the year that online video moves to the centre of the digital economy. Any content based digital business has to adapt to demand for video among its user base and find ways of...

State Of The YouTube Nation
A Definitive Assessment Of The Global Youtube Economy

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Report by Tim Mulligan

28 Apr 2016

£1,000.00 excl. VAT

YouTube

YouTube Channels

video streaming

The 20,000 Foot View The YouTube landscape is changing. While North America still dominates in terms of channel subscribers and views, the second places for these metrics are now held by Latin America...

YouTubers Go Mainstream
How YouTubers Are Spreading Their Social Wings

Report by Tim Mulligan

31 Mar 2016

YouTube

YouTubers

Content Creators

The 20,000 Foot View Views of the top 100 YouTube channels doubled from 184 billion in February 2015 to 372 billion in October 2015. At the same time, the number of subscribers to the top 100 channels...

US PAY-TV Disruption And Consolidation
How Streaming Video And Cord Cutting Are Re-Shaping US Pay-TV

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Report by Tim Mulligan

29 Feb 2016

SVOD Linear TV

US pay-TV

Pay-TV

The 20,000 Foot View 2015 was a year of unparalleled transition for US pay-TV. AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV catapulted the communications company to the front of the pack with a combined subscriber...

P2P In The Age Of SVOD
Rights Fragmentation Gives Piracy A Free Pass

Report by Mark Mulligan

5 Feb 2016

SVOD

video streaming

video subscriptions

The 20,000 Foot View Ever since the advent of Napster media industries have been locked in a war against free. Learning from the lessons of the music business, TV companies nipped much of the P2P demand...

Next Steps For Music Video
How Music Videos Miss Much Of The YouTube Opportunity

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Report by Tim Mulligan

21 Jan 2016

music video

youtube music

YouTube

The 20,000 Foot View The music video has undergone a major transformation since its original conceptualization in the 1970s and commercialization in the 1980s. Originally a tool to drive sales, MTV transformed...

MIDiA Research Predictions, 2016
Video Eats The World

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Report by Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan and Tim Mulligan

15 Dec 2015

Online video

Mobile content

digital music

The 20,000 Foot View This decade has been defined by accelerating innovation and disruption. With the majority of consumers now digitally connected in one way or another, new technologies have the ability...

The TV App Revolution
Authenticated Channel Apps And TVE Strategy

Report by Tim Mulligan

4 Dec 2015

Authenticated channel apps online video

mobile video Short Form

TV Everywhere

The 20,000 Foot View Pay-TV is under assault from a pincer movement, on the one hand losing subscribers to cord cutting and on the other growth slowing due to cord-nevers (Digital Natives with no interest...

Short Form Video Growth
The Rise Of Social Video

Report by Tim Mulligan

16 Nov 2015

Facebook

snapchat

vessel

The 20,000 Foot View Since its launch back in 2005, YouTube has dominated online video with an audience winning combination of user generated content and corporate short form content. While YouTube is...

User Generated Broadcast
Live Streaming Video And The Mainstream Consumer

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Report by Tim Mulligan

30 Oct 2015

Live video streaming

User Generated Broadcast

Online video

The 20,000 Foot View The early adopter buzz around the launches of the live video streaming apps Meerkat and Twitter-acquired Persicope have so far failed to translate into meaningful real world adoption....

Variable Programming
How Online Video Is Shaking Off The Schedule Straightjacket

Report by Tim Mulligan

21 Sep 2015

SVOD Linear TV

Amazon Instant Video

Netflix

The 20,000 Foot View The advent of Video On Demand transformed the business models of the broadcast and pay-TV industries. Now it is set to have an equally disruptive impact on the nature of video content...

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