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Recorded Music Market 2017
Streaming Accelerating Growth

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Mark Mulligan

April 2018

music sales

Streaming

Streaming Music

Recorded music revenues are booming and the distribution end of the value chain is both vibrant and competitive. This has not been the case for many, many years. Streaming is on course to become the main...

Making and Marketing an Artist
Streaming Rewrites the Rules, Again

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Mark Mulligan

April 2018

labels

Streaming

Streaming Music

Marketing is one of the core competencies of record labels. The rise of the internet and social media transformed label marketing strategies. Now streaming is turning everything upside down again. The...

Voice Control Devices
Early Audience Behaviours and Adoption

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Zach Fuller

March 2018

Consumer Behaviour

Apple

Spotify

Connected voice-control devices epitomised by the Amazon Echo have transformed from being mere curiosities of consumer electronic R&D divisions, into becoming positioned as the next hardware paradigm....

Discovery and Measurement
Challenges For Content Producers In The SVOD Era

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Tim Mulligan

March 2018

Streaming

Apple

Amazon

Streaming video consumption continues to accelerate, still adding users in more mature markets and expanding at pace in emerging markets. Though the mix of value propositions and business models is diverse,...

Spotify by the Numbers
Trials, Churn and Margin

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Mark Mulligan

March 2018

Apple

Apple

Spotify

This report presents analysis of Spotify’s key performance metrics as presented in the F1 filing in advance of its direct listing. The report focuses on business performance metrics, such as user acquisition...

Home Entertainment
Streaming is Eclipsing Legacy Behaviour of Consumers

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Tim Mulligan

February 2018

Streaming

bluray

viacom

Home entertainment primarily consisting of DVD, Blu-ray and Electronic sell-through (EST) was a necessary content delivery experience. It enabled the movie business to participate in the first stages of...

Binge-viewing Gamers
Competition Spikes As Peak Attention Nears

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Karol Severin

February 2018

Netflix

Amazon Prime Video

Activision

Binge watching is mainstream among console owners. It increased slightly during 2017 among SVOD subscribers, while the consumer average remained unchanged. As the attention economy peaks, with consumers...

Most Streamed Versus All Time Sellers
The Internationalisation Myth

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Zach Fuller

February 2018

Apple

Spotify

Deezer

As the music industry becomes a streaming industry in all but name, Spotify’s 100 most streamed tracks provide a window into how the overall industry has changed since the advent of access over...

Content Bubbles and Streaming Peaks
Media And Tech Trends That Will Shape 2018 And Beyond

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Mark Mulligan

February 2018

Innovation

Streaming

Apple

This report is a write up of key themes from one of MIDiA’s 2018 keynotes looking at the key trends, innovations and disruptions that will shape media and technology over the coming years. The full presentation...

Snap Inc Q4 Quarterly Results
Much Improved Yet Still Fundamentally Challenged

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Tim Mulligan

February 2018

Facebook

twitter

Snapchat

Snap Inc’s Q4 results bookend the company’s dramatic first year of being a publicly listed company. 2017 was the year Snap has had to effectively admit that its rebranding as “a camera company”...

Facebook’s Instagram Problem
Building Media Strategy In A Fragmented Audience World

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Mark Mulligan

February 2018

YouTube

Facebook

Facebook

In December 2016 Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was embarking on a path to become a media company, but a media company unlike any other. More than one year on, Facebook’s metrics are revealing...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends: Q4 2017

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Mark Mulligan

January 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

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

Playlisting and the Demographic Destiny of Streaming

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Zach Fuller

January 2018

Streaming

Spotify

YouTube

With playlists representing streaming’s lingua franca, the dramatic shifts in consumption they are powering are rewriting the rule books on music marketing, music formats and revenue generation, all...

The Sports Rights Bubble
Reaching The Tipping Point

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Tim Mulligan

January 2018

UK

australia

Video

The broadcasting of live sport has been a key part of TV’s appeal and underpins the pay-TV ecosystem. However, a combination of entrenched cord-cutting and an ageing audience means that revenues are...

Awakening
The Music Industry in the Digital Age

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Mark Mulligan

January 2018

music industry

digital age

In June 1999 a software programme developed by a college dropout changed the music industry forever. It triggered a transformation that threw decades’ worth of accepted wisdom out of the window and sent...

UK Ad Trends 2017
Digital Goes Mainstream As TV Declines

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Zach Fuller

December 2017

digital advertising

uk ad market

tv ad decline

2017 proved to be a tipping point for the UK’s advertising industry, with annual digital advertising revenue overtaking TV for the first time. Not only did digital’s share of total ad spend in H1 grow...

Gaming And Video Fandom Overlap
Cannibalisation Risks For Games And SVOD Releases

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Karol Severin

December 2017

Games

Stranger Things

mobile gamers

Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD), binge-watching and weekly usage of Netflix have penetrated the mainstream among gamers. Behind these propositions are companies with large marketing budgets and effective...

Streaming Peaks
What Playlist And Binge-Watching Trends Signify For Streaming

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Mark Mulligan

December 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

YouTube

Streaming is transforming music and video consumption, creating new business models and behaviours. 2017 was a strong year for both sectors but growth is not uniformly distributed. Video subscriptions...

MIDiA Research Music Market Metrics

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Mark Mulligan

December 2017

Streaming

streaming market shares

Music Metrics

In the Excel spreadsheet published here we have brought together all of MIDiA’s main music datasets into one place for convenient access and reference. The document includes more than 20 country pages,...

The Top TV Shows Of 2017
Netflix Steals A March

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Tim Mulligan

December 2017

Streaming

US

UK

With TV content audiences becoming ever more fragmented and streaming services guarded with their metrics, understanding the appeal of TV shows has never been more complicated. In this report, we present...

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