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Not all social entertainment behaviour is created equal
Audience deep dive

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Hanna Kahlert
Social is an integral part of entertainment consumption This report presents key data and insights about the advanced overlaps between social behaviour (both on digital platforms and in real life) and entertainment consumption. It looks at data from nine markets, featuring segments of social platform users and the audiences of different forms of entertainment, as well as fandom behaviours and monetisation opportunities.
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Radio WAUs
Blurring broadcast lines

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Annie Langston
The radio industry has traditionally thought in terms of monthly audiences and reach rather than engagement. It is time for the radio industry to start thinking in terms of weekly engagement so that it can better benchmark itself against the wider picture of digital entertainment It is time for radio to think in terms of weekly active users (WAUs) As radio consumption steadily declines over time, it is imperative to understand the current userbases Globally, radio WAUs skew older, making the transition into digital platforms such as podcasting more challenging.
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MIDiA Research 2023-2030 global music forecasts
Speed bump

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Mark Mulligan
2022 was a tumultuous year for the global economy, with factors such as high rates of inflation, rising interest rates, a growing cost-of-living crisis, post-Covid supply chain issues, and the Russo-Ukrainian war causing economic dislocation.While the recorded music business was far less affected than many other industries, it was impacted, especially in ad-supported formats, due to the softening of the digital ad market.
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Data briefing
South Korea music market

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Mark Mulligan
This report presents key music market metrics for South Korea. All data is domestic SouthKorean data unless otherwise stated below. The datasets leveraged for this report include: Music company financials and market shares. This data refers to revenue generated by South Korean companies and thus includes both domestic and international revenue MIDiA Research music subscriber market shares MIDiA Research music market forecasts MIDiA Research consumer survey Q4 2022 (fieldedDecember 2022).
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Livestreaming strategy in a social-video world
Work with UGC, not against it

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Tatiana Cirisano
Livestreamed concerts are establishing themselves as complementary experiences, rather than replacements for in-person gigs. A picture of the average livestreamer — older millennials who are entertainment super-consumers — is coming into focus. Now, as the rise of social video coincides with the return of in-person concerts and festivals, user-generated content (UGC) at shows is joining the digital concert mix.
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Podcasts and gamers
How audio can propel the gaming universe

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Annie Langston and Kazia Rothwell
The rise of games-inspired content is taking entertainment by storm. This illustrates the power of not only games content itself, but the fandoms that keep it alive, revealing an audience for other entertainment formats to tap into. As games aficionados over-index for a variety of podcasting behaviours, podcasts are an opportunity for games companies to turn many of the adverse effects of attention inflation into opportunities to drive fandom, engagement, and revenue along the way.
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Pre-empting video piracy in the streaming TV era

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Tim Mulligan
Video piracy had been downgraded as a significant disruptive risk in the era of subscription video on demand (SVOD) and free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST). While peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing piracy is a declining niche activity at 7% penetration, streaming piracy is has slightly increased to 10% as the cost-of living crisis and recessionary fears increase the use case for piracy among digital entertainment consumers.
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AI and the future of music
The future is already here

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Mark Mulligan, Hanna Kahlert and Tatiana Cirisano
Unlike most new technology hype cycles, the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) has on the world is already surpassing expectations. Within the music industry, AI will largely be an enabler and accelerant of already-existing trends and market shifts: the growth of self-releasing artists, the consumerisation of music-making, and the resulting oversaturation and hyper-fragmentation of the market.
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Artists direct
Focus on passion, not professionalism

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Tatiana Cirisano
All eyes of the music business are on artists direct, the fastest-growing segment of the industry. But the 6.4 million artists in this segment are far from a unified group, and have varied aspirations, challenges, and needs. MIDiA’s 2023 creator survey reflects that the two largest sub-segments of artists direct are those who seek full-time music careers; and those who are passionate about music, but not seeking a full-time career.
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