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Sports SVOD Services Deep Dive

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Alistair Taylor

May 2019

Apple

Spotify

Video

Sports-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) services have entered international markets, looking to capture digital-native audiences from pay-TV and other established SVOD services. Eleven Sports’...

Music Marketing
Niche is the New Mainstream

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Mark Mulligan

May 2019

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify

Streaming personalisation and falling radio audiences are combining to rewrite the music marketing rulebook, ushering in a whole new marketing paradigm. Hits used to be cultural moments; artist brands...

US Cord Cutting Full Year 2018
Streaming Transition Picks Up Pace

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Tim Mulligan

April 2019

US

YouTube

Streaming video

Cord cutting is now an established component of the US pay-TV landscape, reinforcing the role of the US as the canary in the mine for the global pay-TV business. Cord cutting accelerated in 2018, highlighting...

One Billion-Plus YouTube Music Videos
Latin Takeover

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Mark Mulligan

April 2019

Spotify

YouTube

YouTube

While rightsholders and YouTube fought a bitter war of words around Article 13 in 2018, the platform further underscored its importance for creating global superstars. With audiences fragmenting...

Profiling the Live Music Consumer
How Streaming Behaviours are Changing the Face of the Live Music Business

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Zach Fuller

April 2019

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

Live music revenues grew dramatically throughout the piracy years of the 2000s and early 2010s, with festivals in particular gaining popularity while the recorded music industry grappled with the existential...

El mercado latinoamericano de transmisión de música
YouTube y Spotify se consolidan

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Leo Morel

April 2019

Streaming

Streaming Music

Latin America

Una imagen a 20.000 pies: Latinoamérica se ha convertido rápidamente en uno de los más importantes mercados de transmisión de música, debido a la acelerada adopción de los consumidores, creciente...

Youtube e Spotify tomam conta do mercado latino-americano de streaming de música

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Leo Morel

April 2019

Streaming

Streaming Music

Latin America

Visão Geral: A América Latina tornou-se um dos mais importantes mercados de streaming de música devido a fatores como a acelerada adoção por parte do consumidor, a crescente proliferação de smartphones,...

E-sports
An Alternative Future for Televised Sports?

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Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

April 2019

Video

YouTube

Amazon

E-sports continue to gain attention, with more brands seeking to enter the space populated as it is by a succession of new leagues, competitions and teams. But for all the hype, e-sports has not yet managed...

SVOD Stacking
Direct to Consumer Services Set to Move the Needle

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Tim Mulligan

March 2019

Streaming

US

UK

In the attention economy, everyone is your competitor – a point well made by Netflix’s Reed Hastings’ observation that the company is now vying for viewer time with the popular game Fortnite....

Four Marketing Principles for the Digital Economy
1.0

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Georgia Meyer

March 2019

digital content

context

amazon studios

The ascent of the digital economy has resulted in a radical change of marketing principles, the consequences of which have not yet been sufficiently understood. This report outlines four marketing principles...

Latin America Streaming Music Market
YouTube and Spotify Take Hold

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Leo Morel

March 2019

Streaming

Streaming Music

iTunes

Latin America has fast become one of the most important streaming music markets due to accelerating consumer adoption, growing smartphone ownership, strong streaming service availability and fast-growing...

The Voice Market and Behaviour Trends Overview

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Karol Severin

March 2019

Facebook

Twitter

iPhone

Despite being far from the mainstream at 9% penetration, voice control activity has established itself firmly in certain pockets of the digital entertainment landscape, be it among music subscribers in...

Recorded Music Market 2018
Stream Engine

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Mark Mulligan

March 2019

music sales

Streaming

Streaming Music

For the fourth consecutive year, recorded music revenues grew again in 2018 with streaming revenue the engine room of growth. For the first time, streaming became the majority of label revenue and...

Games Streaming
Tech Major Disruption is Coming

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Karol Severin

February 2019

tech majors

Attention economy

cross-platform gaming

Streaming is about to take the gaming world by storm. With new entrants including Google, Amazon, and Verizon, and others to come in the future, the traditionally siloed gaming model is becoming part of...

Spotify Q4 2018 Earnings
Strong Subscriber Growth With a Hint of Profitability but Long-Term ARPU Deflation

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Mark Mulligan

February 2019

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify finished 2018 strongly, over performing in both subscriber and ad-supported MAU additions. This was accompanied by Spotify’s first ever profitable quarter and two major podcast acquisitions...

Streaming Video Consumer Trends Q4 2018
Reaching The Post-Peak Attention Economy

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Alistair Taylor

February 2019

Apple

YouTube

Netflix

With streaming video subscriptions surpassing that of pay-TV in Q1 2018, traditional linear providers are under growing pressure to better understand consumer consumption habits. Pay-TV failed to entice...

Music Publishing Acquisitions
Bubble Business or Sustainable Market?

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Zach Fuller

February 2019

Apple

Spotify

Warner Chappel

Music publishing mergers and acquisitions have boomed in recent years, invigorated by streaming’s user growth and the multitude of revenue options becoming available outside of music sales, such as micro...

MIDiA Research Music Forecasts 2018–2026

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Mark Mulligan

February 2019

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....

Digital Consumer Ad Profiles
Targeting Music and Video Streamers

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Georgia Meyer

January 2019

Spotify

Radio

YouTube

Digital music and video consumers navigate an increasingly nuanced landscape of content formats, from paywalled to ad-supported to social. Levels of engagement with new social formats vary considerably...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends Q4 2018

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Tim Mulligan

January 2019

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

In this report, we present highlights of content trends from MIDiA’s Quarterly Brand Tracker, a survey fielded each quarter in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This report explores how consumer behaviour...

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