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Killing Eve – A Case Study in Analysing Show Fandom

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Tim Mulligan

September 2020

BBC

Fandom

AMC

Killing Eve season three was released in April 2020, the third instalment of a critically acclaimed genre-hopping comedy/drama spy thriller about a female intelligence operative obsessively hunting a female assassin. Defying conventional four-quadrant programming, the franchise has stood out amidst a bevy of more conventional competitors.

Music Subscriber Market Shares 4.0
Subscriptions Decouple from Revenue

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Mark Mulligan

September 2020

Subscriptions

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

This report presents key figures from MIDiA’s global music subscriber market shares model. The full dataset is published alongside this report with quarterly data from Q4 2015 to Q1 2020 and annual label trade revenue from full year 2015 to full year 2019 for 27 streaming services across 34 different markets.

MIDiA Research Artist Survey Q2 2020

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Mark Mulligan and Keith Jopling

September 2020

Independent artists

charts

music artists

This deck presents findings from MIDiA's Q2 2020 survey of music artists, assessing the impact on their careers in the wake of the coronavirus. It consists of 13 charts / graphs / table slides. The full report will be available in October 2020....

Snapshot
UK Q1 2020 Consumer Engagement for MMA and Boxing

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Tim Mulligan and Alistair Taylor

September 2020

Audience Insight

Methodology This mini report is a review of trends and data established on MMA and boxing engagement from Q3 2019 to Q1 2020 in the leading English-speaking markets of the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. MIDiA Research fields quarterly brand tracker consumer surveys in key countries for insight data and aggregates 3rd party indicator data to track d...

Post-Pandemic Programming
Surviving and Thriving in the Recession

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Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Alistair Taylor, Keith Jopling and Hanna Kahlert

September 2020

Apple

Apple

live

COVID-19 caused dislocation and disruption to the global entertainment business. Now, the recession and the prospect of further pandemic peaks have created an unprecedented outlook for entertainment companies. Many of the shifts that occurred during lockdown will define the new market dynamics.

Recovery Economics
Post-Lockdown Sports

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Alistair Taylor

August 2020

Disney

Comcast

Sky

As live sports resume following the coronavirus crisis lockdowns, the long-term impact of sports’ mass hiatus will be substantial. An activity gap created a void state for consumers, freeing up previously allocated attention and causing them to reconsider retaining subscriptions with diluted service offerings.

The Esports Viewer Dossier
Q2 2020

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Karol Severin

August 2020

Games

esports

Audience Insight

The Esports Viewer DossierQ2 2020 covers: Demographics and penetration Genre and sports preferences Time and money spent Service usage Entertainment behaviours

Music Discovery
Streaming’s Growing Role

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Mark Mulligan

August 2020

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify

Radio has long led music discovery and continues to do so today. However, streaming – both audio and video – are making up ground fast, especially among more engaged and younger music fans. These shifts in discovery come as music marketing strategy is placing an ever-greater emphasis on streaming.

Music Marketing
The Velocity Game

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Mark Mulligan

August 2020

Spotify

Spotify

YouTube

Music streaming has become so central to the functioning of the record label business model that labels are becoming beholden to streaming service optimisation. A shift towards ever-larger numbers of new releases targeted at streaming success threatens to dislocate the underlying business model of bigger record labels and cause a disconnect between...

Q2 2020 UK Video Consumer Deep Dive

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Tim Mulligan

August 2020

Apple

YouTube

YouTube

UK video engagement in Q2 2020 remains primarily a two-horse race between subscription-based Netflix and ad-supported YouTube, which returned to dominance with 55% weekly average user penetration – three percentage points higher than Netflix. Against this trend new streaming entrant Disney+ has achieved 16% weekly average user penetration, underl...

Spotify Q2 2020 Earnings
In the Shadow of COVID

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Mark Mulligan

August 2020

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify’s share price grew strongly in June 2020, with the markets responding positively to its podcast investments. However, while that increase was sustained throughout July, by mid-August the share price was heading back down to late-June levels.

Profiling Esports Viewers
The Synergy of Spend, Ad Receptiveness and Engagement

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Karol Severin

August 2020

Consumer behaviour

Spotify

Spotify

As live events have halted, attracting non-endemic brands to esports via digital content has moved to the forefront for esports companies. But attracting the largest brands often requires close-to-mainstream demographic reach and a similar socioeconomic make-up.

Attention Economy
Media Consumption Q2 2020

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Mark Mulligan

July 2020

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

US

This report presents MIDiA’s Q2 2020 media consumption data, exploring time and money spent by consumers during the quarter. As such, it presents a snapshot of consumer behaviour that reflects both the impact of longer-term shifts and the shorter-term COVID-19 effect for the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France and Germany.

MIDiA Research 2020-2027 Global Music Forecasts
Volume Trumps Value as Emerging Markets Dominate Growth

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Mark Mulligan

July 2020

Music revenue

Spotify

YouTube

This report presents the key figures, trends and drivers of MIDiA’s music forecast model. The figures presented in this report are retail values and in billions of US dollars unless otherwise stated. An Excel file posted alongside this report provides complete country-level data, including DSP market shares and a detailed methodology statement.

D2C Big Bang Impact, H1 2020
English-speaking Markets

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Tim Mulligan

July 2020

Apple

Amazon

Apple TV

With HBO Max and Peacock just coming into market, the key challengers for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video’s current SVOD dominance are Disney+ and Apple TV+, which both launched midway through Q4 2019. Disney+ rapidly moved into a strong third position in all four markets (US, UK, Canada, Australia), while Apple TV+’s lack of content depth is fl...

Sports Consumption
Measuring COVID-19’s Impact

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Alistair Taylor

July 2020

Apple

Discovery

Amazon

With the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports creating an entertainment void for sports fans, understanding COVID-19’s impact on overall sports consumption and where audiences are substituting their finite attention is paramount for sports distributors and rights holders.

Recovery Economics
Post-Lockdown TV

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Tim Mulligan

July 2020

Apple

Amazon

Streaming video

As society emerges from the COVID-19 imposed lockdown, the ongoing impact on TV production will be significant; returning to normal means adapting to the constraints of social distancing. The increased use of sound stages and green screen facilities will become the norm in the absence of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Recession Impact
Music Industry 2020 Growth Scenarios

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Mark Mulligan

June 2020

live music

Music publishing

Record labels

As part of MIDiA’s research stream focused on how COVID-19 is impacting the entertainment industries, this report explores how the combination of lockdown measures and the coming recession will impact music industry revenues in 2020.

Recovery Economics
Outlook for Music, Games, Video & Sports

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Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin and Alistair Taylor

June 2020

Video

Recorded music

Music streaming

MIDiA analysts present in this webinar report how the entertainment industries can plan not to simply bounce back, but to rebuild their value propositions and supply chains to adjust to the realities of the new normal and flourish in the post-lockdown era.

Q2 2020 TV Show Demand
Latin America

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Tim Mulligan

June 2020

This slide deck highlights consumer demand indicators for TV shows, with details for titles and genres for Wikipedia page views across seven Latin America countries for June 11, 2020. Wikipedia page views are strong indicators of incipient viewing as unlike a Google search, a viewer has made an active decision to find out more about a show.

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