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Paid Versus Free
Monetisation In The Post-Sales World

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Zach Fuller
Apple
Apple
Spotify
As the app economy matures into an amorphous content landscape, a picture emerges of how free and pure subscription models impact the bottom-line of the creative industries across music, online video, publishing and gaming. In one corner, freemium has been accused of devaluing content as a product, yet it is also credited with driving higher revenues from super-fans who previously had their spending capped by blanket pricing, at least in sectors like games (music still caps spending).
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Streaming Music Pricing
Inelastic Stretching

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Mark Mulligan
Streaming
Streaming Music
streaming subscriptions
Pricing has long been an issue for streaming music subscriptions, with the $9.99 price point having the double challenge of reducing the spending of the most valuable music buyers and being higher than the average spend of most music buyers. Streaming services have worked around the issue with a combination of telco music bundles and aggressive price discounts.
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Overcoming VR Adoption Hurdles

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Zach Fuller
Streaming
Radio
Paid Content
When it comes to disruptive technology, emerging formats such as Virtual Reality have been here before. The part about innovation that can so often omitted by uplifting TED lectures is that whilst these technologies present incredible opportunities, amongst the hype and excitement are often serious debates on how differently various contributors within the technology ultimately view the world and the value that they contribute.
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Next Steps For Telco Music
The Revenue Or User Dilemma

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Mark Mulligan
Streaming Music
Music Subscriptions
music bundles
Streaming’s early fortunes were intimately tied to telco music strategy, with the streaming services eager to piggy back telcos’ much larger marketing budgets and telcos equally keen to pursue marketplace differentiation and brand kudos. Telco music bundles are delivering more revenue and users than ever before but their relative role in the streaming economy has lessened.
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Facebook Messenger User Profile
Streaming Savvy Mainstream Messaging App Users

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Karol Severin
Facebook messenger
Mobile messaging
Messaging apps
Facebook Messenger has caught up with WhatsApp, boasting more than 1 billion Monthly Active Users (MAUs). Along with WhatsApp and Instagram, Messenger is part of Facebook’s bet on the future of audiences as they migrate away from social networks. Facebook’s messaging apps are the company’s gateway to owning as much as possible of consumers’ mobile life.
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MIDiA Research Predictions 2017
The Year Of The Platform

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Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller
Streaming
Streaming Music
Paid Content
As we correctly predicted, 2016 was the year video ate the world. 2017 is going to be shaped by the battle for consumer attention through formatting and distribution wars. VR is likely to cede further ground to AR, bots will become established, while messaging apps add to their dominant position (even though user growth will slow).
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Paid Content Consumer Deep Dive
The Emergence Of A Sophisticated Audience

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Zach Fuller
Subscriptions
Streaming
Online video
In the old world, there were clear demarcations between media types, bordered with proprietary media and playback devices. However, different entertainment forms now exist in more interdependent ecosystems than they did in the analogue era, with all-in-one app stores blurring the boundaries and turning media consumption into an amorphous whole where content types compete directly with each another for both time and money.
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Netflix User Profile
Mass Market Streaming Video Users

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Tim Mulligan
Streaming video
Netflix
Video subscriptions
Netflix is the poster child of Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) services with a rollout in 2016 to 130 territories worldwide and international subscribers accounting for 45% of users. A 2016 $1 billion bond issuance to fund increased content spend to $6 billion for 2017 underlines both the ambition and the resources being deployed by the company in its bid to grow into a mainstream international video provider.
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Instagram User Profile
Edging Towards Mainstream

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Zach Fuller
Facebook
Mobile messaging
Instagram
Instagram was far from the first image-centric service to gain prominence, but something about its simple interface, filtering capabilities and ease of sharing saw the platform become something of a visual lingua franca for the selfie-generation. Now part of Facebook and boasting impressive growth figures, it surprised many with its longevity and continues to embellish its established position as the premier destination for photographic content in the digital era.
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