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MIDiA Research 2024-2031 global music forecasts
Rise of the Global South

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Mark Mulligan, Tatiana Cirisano and Perry Gresham

May 2024

Business Strategy

The 2024 edition of MIDiA’s global music forecast captures a market at a crossroads. With limited streaming user growth remaining in the West, revenue growth will be fuelled by price rises and ARPU increases, as well as expansion in emerging markets, albeit at lower ARPU.

State of the music video economy
Balancing act

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Tatiana Cirisano and Fernanda Balzaretti

April 2024

Consumer behaviour

music industry

Music publishing

The rise of short-form video, and the resulting shift in value from music videos to music in videos, have upended the music video space. This report unpacks the growth of short-form, the resulting decline in YouTube weekly active user penetration, and the impact on both artist marketing and advertising revenue.

Niche is mainstream
How scenes, niche aggregators, and creators will reshape entertainment

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Hanna Kahlert

April 2024

Audience Insight

As niche officially becomes mainstream, the entertainment industry faces a delicate balance. Audiences are losing interest in broad, mainstream propositions, but hyper-personalised niches are inherently difficult to scale and monetise while retaining what made them special to fans in the first place.

Bifurcation theory
How today’s music business will become two

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Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

April 2024

Business Strategy

The music business is bifurcating, with streaming emerging as the place for mainstream music and lean-back consumption, and social as the spiritual home of fandom and the creator economy. In this report we will explore how today’s music business challenges are setting in motion a new, bifurcated business.

Gamers' time
Where it is and how to get it

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Karol Severin

April 2024

Business Strategy

Product Strategy

With the attention economy saturated, there is next to no incremental entertainment time up for grabs. This comes precisely at a time when more games depend on growing time spent. As games are only the fifth most consumed entertainment activity among PC and console gamers, the path for games to meaningfully grow time spent is to absorb consumers’...

Mainstreaming the metaverse
The Apple Vision Pro and entertainment’s opportunity

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Tim Mulligan

April 2024

Business Strategy

The Q1 2024 US launch of the Apple Vision Pro virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR) device has reignited interest in the metaverse, a bus that has so far stubbornly refused to arrive. Apple’s intent is to deliver at-home immersive VR and AR experiences for affluent but mainstream consumers.

MIDiA Research 2024–2030 global podcast forecasts
Road to a $10 billion business

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Mark Qi and Rutger Rosenborg

March 2024

Business Strategy

The temporary digital consumption boom of the pandemic gave way to an inflationary landscape fuelled by global supply chain issues and geopolitical crises. While inflation levelled out in 2023, the residual effects of post-pandemic economics continued to reverberate throughout media and tech.

Virtual influencers
The opportunity for brands and creative agencies

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Ben Woods

March 2024

Business Strategy

Creator economy

Brands and creative agencies can claim a larger slice of the creative economy as adoption of virtual influencer content accelerates. Cheaper to run, with higher productivity rates and more monetisation options, virtual influencers provide an opportunity for brands to secure a greater return on their marketing investment.

MIDiA Research Panel Creator Survey
2023

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Kazia Rothwell

March 2024

Audience Insight

Key data and insights included in this report: Analysis of MIDIA Research’s creator panel, including age, gender, and region Type of creative content produced by panel creators Time, money, and, earnings of creators Analysis of drivers and major inhibitors...

Recorded music market 2023
Back to life

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Mark Mulligan

March 2024

Business Strategy

After a slower 2022, the global recorded music market returned to strong growth in 2023. It was, however, also the first year that the artists direct segment lost market share, with changes to the streaming ecosystem already beginning to take effect. This report presents recorded music market revenues by format as well as market shares for key labe...

BE THE CHANGE
Gender equity in music

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Hanna Kahlert, Tatiana Cirisano, Sophia Oleksiyenko, Ashleigh Millar, Samuel Griffin and Kazia Rothwell

March 2024

Business Strategy

Audience Insight

In many ways, women ruled the music industry in 2023. Women swept the 2024 Grammy Awards, winning all the “big four” categories. Taylor Swift and Beyoncé completed record-breaking tours and, according to the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, the share of women artists on Billboard’s US Hot 100 year-end chart reached a 12-year high of 35%.

Pluto TV Q4 2023 consumer deep dive

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Tim Mulligan

March 2024

Audience Insight

This slide deck presents a snapshot of Pluto TV users across video, games, and music. It includes age breakdowns, time spent on video, money spent on video, video, games, music, multimedia subscription penetration, and likeliness to savvy switch. Key data and insights included in this report: Penetration of Pluto TV users in US, UK, Canada, Germany...

Paramount+ Q4 2023 consumer deep dive

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Tim Mulligan

March 2024

Audience Insight

This slide deck presents a snapshot of Paramount+ users across video, games, and music. It includes age breakdowns, time spent on video, money spent on video, video, games, music, multimedia subscription penetration, and likeliness to savvy switch. Key data and insights included in this report: Penetration of Paramount+ users in US, UK, Canada, Ger...

Audiobook consumer profile
A focused, engaged niche

Kazia Rothwell

February 2024

Audience Insight

Key data and insights included in this report: Audiobook user snapshot, behaviours and demographics compared to the average consumer Change in time spent and listenership of audiobooks compared to other audio streams Audio behaviours, including multitasking, background and focused listening, time of day and location of listening Year-on-year analys...

Games subscription user deep dive
More is more

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Karol Severin

February 2024

Audience Insight

Games subscriptions are playing an increasingly important role in the distribution section of the games industry’s value chain. A growing number of developers, therefore, must think through whether to partner with subscription services and, if so, which ones.

Audio substitute threat
Measuring consumer time allocation

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Rutger Rosenborg

February 2024

Streaming

cannibalization

Radio

All forms of entertainment compete not only for the same time, but increasingly for the same digital real estate. As audio streaming platforms move towards all-in-one access to multiple formats, both platforms and content providers must understand the threats of substitution and cannibalisation from within.

Beyond the obvious
Building future-focused strategy

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Mark Mulligan, Keith Jopling and Kriss Thakrar

February 2024

Product Strategy

Business strategy has long been demarcated across sustaining and disruptive innovation. In the digital realm the latter has had the upper hand, but as digital enters a slower growth phase, sustaining innovation is back in favour. Yet this is also a period of dramatic value chain shifts and is thus exactly the period when companies should instead be...

Social landscape
Mapping the balance of platforms’ audience, features, and strategy

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Hanna Kahlert

February 2024

Audience Insight

This report maps how social platforms are used by consumers, looking at behaviours such as talking to friends, shopping / browsing, and creating content. It further looks at how this differs with age. The current marketplace is maturing, with platforms now either pursuing a “do everything well” or a “do one thing the best” approach.

Superstars and their superfans
Turning point

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Tatiana Cirisano

February 2024

Audience Insight

Key data and insights included in this report: Consumer awareness, listenership, and fandom rates of music stars including Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Drake, Billie Eilish, Post Malone, The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, and Bad Bunny Analysis of these artists’ super fans by proportion of total fans, age and propensity to buy merc...

Optimising the monetisation opportunities for TV and film fandom in the TV-streaming era

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Tim Mulligan

February 2024

Audience Insight

In an increasingly saturated entertainment landscape, understanding the fandom overlaps between previously distinct media formats is more important than ever. This is especially important for video as TV and film still retain their role as the central hub of mainstream entertainment.

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