Reports: YouTube

Mobile Gamer User Profile
Mobile Is The Unifying Factor For Gamers

Karol Severin

February 2017

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

Whatever your digital content proposition, mobile gamers comprise a significant share of your user base. The segment is not only important due to its sheer size and app economy value, but also because it straddles otherwise diverse components of the digital entertainment landscape, be it video, music, or messaging.

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State Of The YouTube Music Economy
Growing Tensions As Worldviews Collide

Mark Mulligan

July 2016

Streaming

Streaming Music

YouTube

YouTube is the music platform of choice for Millennials and Gen Z and is by far the most widely used streaming service on the planet. But YouTube and music rights holders have never been the closest of partners and intensive lobbying and counter lobbying in 2016 turned up the heat.

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

Tim Mulligan

April 2016

YouTube

emerging markets

Latin America

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 and Asia respectively. Both emerging regions show diverging consumption patterns, with Latin America over indexing on the proportion of subscribers-to-views, and Asia ove...

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YouTubers Go Mainstream
How YouTubers Are Spreading Their Social Wings

Tim Mulligan

March 2016

YouTube

YouTube Channels

short form video

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 doubled to 1.4 billion. Despite Google sticking with its 2013 official statement of one billion monthly unique users for YouTube, it is clear that it is exploding in popu...

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

Tim Mulligan

January 2016

YouTube

Twitter

music video

The music video has undergone a major transformation since its original conceptualisation in the 1970s and commercialisation in the 1980s. Originally a tool to drive sales, MTV transformed it into a product in its own right and then YouTube did the same thing for the digital era.

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Short Form Video Growth
The Rise Of Social Video

Tim Mulligan

November 2015

YouTube

Online video

Facebook

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 more successful in terms of brand recognition and video views than it has ever been, it now faces real competition from video newcomers Facebook and Snapchat.

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Facebook Video
Not The Real Deal Yet But Could Still Unseat YouTube

Mark Mulligan

July 2015

YouTube

Online video

Facebook

Facebook is emerging as a serious challenger to YouTube and is building clear momentum that is giving the incumbent cause for concern in a way that few other short form challengers have yet managed to do. The total number of videos viewed by Facebook users was 4 billion a day in April 2015, up from 3 billion only three months earlier.

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On Demand In Demand
Meeting The Needs Of The On Demand Fan

Mark Mulligan

June 2015

Subscriptions

Streaming

US

2014 was undoubtedly streaming’s biggest year yet, growing by 39% and accounting for nearly a third of all digital revenues. But the market is a long distance yet from being in a position where it can be considered established. While free streaming, YouTube in particular, is booming, subscriptions remain confined to niche audiences.

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Video Market Country Profile: UK
Catch-Up TV Supercharges The Market

Tim Mulligan

April 2015

US

Apple

YouTube

Online TV viewing in the UK is now a mainstream consumer activity. This has been facilitated by near universal levels of internet connectivity and smartphone adoption and driven by the unique role played by national broadcaster the BBC. However while the UK is in the vanguard of video viewing, the dominant position of BBC’s iPlayer ad-free OTT (O...

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YouTube Disruptors
The Companies That Aim To Challenge YouTube In Its Second Decade

Tim Mulligan

March 2015

YouTube

Taylor Swift

traditional media content producers

YouTube’s supercharged success over the last decade shows signs of having created a monopolistic mindset in the company that leaves it ripe for disruption. Its runaway success as both a content discovery platform and an end destination for video consumption, paradoxically also means it is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success.

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YouTube Channel Growth
How Native Content Strategies Will Underpin Success

Tim Mulligan

March 2015

YouTube

10th anniversary viral stars

traditional media content producers

YouTube’s first decade established the video category that is still widely referred to as short form video, even though it is only music videos that any longer cling religiously to the few minutes format. Ten years on, YouTube’s channel hierarchy is emerging not just as the key navigation interface but also the foundation of a new content creat...

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YouTube Channels
How YouTube Stars Build Engaged Audiences

Tim Mulligan

March 2015

YouTube

traditional media content producers

YouTube Channels

With 1 billion monthly users, YouTube is the third most popular online destination globally making it the world’s de facto pure play video destination. A whole generation has grown up with YouTube as their preferred video content destination, most often bypassing traditional TV brands.

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Unlocking YouTube
How YouTube’s Music Key Will Impact Subscriptions

Mark Mulligan

October 2014

consumer behavior

Consumer behaviour

Subscriptions

YouTube is the globe’s leading digital music service but it delivers comparatively little back to the music industry in direct revenue. Even the one billion dollars paid out in Content ID revenues only represents $0.14 for each of its one billion users per year, since the launch of Content ID in 2007.

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Global Digital Music Services Benchmark
The Digital Music Marketplace

Mark Mulligan

September 2014

Subscriptions

Streaming Music

Music Subscriptions

The global digital music industry may only be growing steadily (5% in 2013) but beneath the headline number is a richly varied picture of different services, diverse regional growth rates and competing business models. To better understand this marketplace, MIDiA Research conducted a Global Music Services Tracker.

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The Streaming Effect
Assessing The Impact Of Streaming Music Behaviour

Mark Mulligan

August 2014

Subscriptions

Streaming Music

Music Subscriptions

Streaming has arrived and is here to stay, that much is clear. What is not is how it will impact existing music revenue streams. Though neither a business model nor a product, streaming is the lens through which the irresistible force of the shift from ownership to access is best understood.

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Content Connectors
How the Coming Digital Content Revolution Will Change Everything

Mark Mulligan

August 2014

Subscriptions

Apple

Spotify

Content Connectors, devices such as Apple TV, Google’s Chromecast, Amazon Kindle Fire TV and Roku, are set to transform the way in which mainstream consumers interact with digital content. Current adopters of these devices are the most valuable paid content consumers across all content genres, not just the video for which Content Connectors are b...

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The Digitally Native Music Consumer
A Digital Native Music Behaviour Deep Dive

Mark Mulligan

July 2014

Consumer behaviour

Streaming

Streaming Music

Natives and Immigrants demarcate the digital world. While Digital Immigrants bear the baggage of their analogue era past, Digital Natives have only ever know ubiquitous connectivity and content availability. Consequently the digital music behaviour of Digital Natives evolves at a dramatic pace and markedly over indexes against the Digital Immigrant...

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