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Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q4 2017

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Mark Mulligan

January 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker. The survey is fielded in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour evolved between Q4 2016 and Q3 2017 across music, video, games and social.

Playlisting and the Demographic Destiny of Streaming

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Zach Fuller

January 2018

Streaming

Spotify

YouTube

With playlists representing streaming’s lingua franca, the dramatic shifts in consumption they are powering are rewriting the rule books on music marketing, music formats and revenue generation, all in one swoop. Though the rate of change is partially offset by the grandfathering of the download format and, in certain cases, the resistance of phy...

Streaming Peaks
What Playlist And Binge-Watching Trends Signify For Streaming

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Mark Mulligan

December 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

YouTube

Streaming is transforming music and video consumption, creating new business models and behaviours. 2017 was a strong year for both sectors but growth is not uniformly distributed. Video subscriptions are set to see much wider adoption than music subscriptions and across both sectors, leading behaviours are slowing.

Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q3 2017

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Mark Mulligan

December 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker. The survey is fielded in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour evolved between Q4 2016 and Q3 2017 across music, video, games and social.

YouTube State Of The Nation

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Tim Mulligan

November 2017

YouTube

YouTube

Amazon

As the TV viewing experience becomes increasingly YouTube continues to expand as the world’s default video destination, with a 46% increase in year-on-year views for the top 100 YouTube channels. This is in spite of the company’s ongoing crack down to remove inactive subscribers on the platform.

YouTube State Of The Nation

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Tim Mulligan

November 2017

YouTube

YouTube

Amazon

As the TV viewing experience becomes increasingly YouTube continues to expand as the world’s default video destination, with a 46% increase in year-on-year views for the top 100 YouTube channels. This is in spite of the company’s ongoing crack down to remove inactive subscribers on the platform.

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

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Mark Mulligan

October 2017

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

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 spent the year competing with ever more impressive metric, while playlisting and streaming exclusives became cornerstones of the wider music mark...

The Digital News Consumer

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Zach Fuller

October 2017

YouTube

Facebook

buzzfeed

As the publishing industry’s issues regarding monetisation move front and centre in the political debate over Facebook’s media influence, the way consumers discover and interact with news content stands at a tipping point. With increasing diversity in consumption patterns across geographical markets and age groups, understanding the digital pub...

Social TV Show Fandom
Nuances In Engagement Among SVOD Subscribers

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Tim Mulligan

October 2017

US

UK

Australia

As the TV viewing experience becomes increasingly fragmented across the digital sphere, TV show fandom is becoming ever more nuanced. Across the five largest social apps by weekly usage, TV brand engagement varies considerably. Facebook and YouTube are both mainstream social apps by engagement and exhibit the highest levels of TV fandom among SVOD ...

Social TV Show Fandom
Nuances In Engagement Among SVOD Subscribers

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Tim Mulligan

October 2017

US

UK

Australia

As the TV viewing experience becomes increasingly fragmented across the digital sphere, TV show fandom is becoming ever more nuanced. Across the five largest social apps by weekly usage, TV brand engagement varies considerably. Facebook and YouTube are both mainstream social apps by engagement and exhibit the highest levels of TV fandom among SVOD ...

The Emerging Video Content Bubble

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Tim Mulligan

September 2017

Apple

YouTube

Amazon

Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) services like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have spurred a scripted drama renaissance and, in doing, so have trigged a content licensing arms race. Traditional TV networks have had to increase their spending to compete with these new streaming TV networks.

Quarterly Digital Content Trends
Q2 2017

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Mark Mulligan

August 2017

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 Q2 2017 across music, video, games and social.

Music Rights Disruption
The Transparency Agenda

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Mark Mulligan

August 2017

music publishers

Apple

Spotify

Music rights have never been simple but now the complexity is reaching such a level that the digital music marketplace is beginning to buckle under the strain. With growing demand across the board for increased transparency, effectiveness and speed, the music rights landscape is facing an unprecedented period of innovation and disruption.

Content Piracy
Piracy Reinvented In The Streaming Era

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Mark Mulligan

August 2017

Streaming

Spotify

YouTube

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 the demand and behaviours created by piracy. Now as streaming drives both music and video revenues, P2P is less central a force than it once was.

YouTube Q2 2017
Quietly Bigger And Better Than Ever

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Tim Mulligan

July 2017

YouTube

YouTube

Google

The announcement in June 2017 that YouTube had 1.5 billion monthly logged-in users was the first official user number since the 2013 tally of One billion unique monthly users. This metrics reticence stands in stark contrast to rivals in the attention economy, such as Facebook, which provides quarterly updates on its continued growth in active users.

YouTube Q2 2017
Quietly Bigger And Better Than Ever

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Tim Mulligan

July 2017

YouTube

YouTube

Google

The announcement in June 2017 that YouTube had 1.5 billion monthly logged-in users was the first official user number since the 2013 tally of One billion unique monthly users. This metrics reticence stands in stark contrast to rivals in the attention economy, such as Facebook, which provides quarterly updates on its continued growth in active users.

Brazil Streaming Music Market
Breaking The Mould

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Mark Mulligan

June 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

music bundles

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 of streaming is that it can monetize consumption rather than just spending, making a country’s population size as important as its spending p...

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

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Mark Mulligan

May 2017

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

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 spent the year competing with ever more impressive metrics while playlisting and streaming exclusives became cornerstones of the wider music mark...

Grand Theft Auto Fan Profile
The Mainstream Hardcore Gamers

Karol Severin

May 2017

YouTube

Deezer

Apple Music

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is among the most popular console game title franchises in the market. Despite the controversy, the brand has managed to establish a solid fan foothold across genders and ages. GTA fans are digitally sophisticated and engaged users (albeit under-indexing in messaging app usage) with a strong affinity for online video and for ...

Streaming Music Growth
How The S-Curve Will Determine Growth

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Mark Mulligan

April 2017

Consumer behaviour

Streaming

Streaming Music

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 streaming music market will grow, and the level at which it will peak, is determined not just by industry strategy but also by the underlying laws ...

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