MIDiA Reports

Apple Q4 (Calendar Q3) 2017
Quarterly Revenue Growth Underpins 2017 Revenue Revival

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Tunde Sowande

November 2017

Apple

Video

Apple continued its sales momentum this quarter with the launch of hardware products such as iPhone 8 and 8 Plus models in September. Both smartphones have incorporated new features, such as augmented...

UK Digital Publishing Subscriptions
Niche Audiences And High ARPU Opportunity

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Zach Fuller

November 2017

Subscriptions

publishing

digital advertising

The current post-social media landscape has facilitated unprecedented global distribution of news while irrevocably shifting their value proposition. UK news entities have begun to discover that they are...

YouTube State Of The Nation

Tim Mulligan

November 2017

YouTube

Amazon

As the TV viewing experience becomes increasingly YouTube continues to expand as the world’s default video destination, with a 46% increase in year-on-year views for the top 100 YouTube channels. This...

State Of The Streaming Nation 2.1 (Mid-Year 2017 Update)
The Definitive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market

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Mark Mulligan

October 2017

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

2016 was the year that streaming turned the recorded music business into a good news story, with revenue growth so strong that it drove nearly a billion dollars of total growth. Leading streaming services...

The Digital News Consumer

Zach Fuller

October 2017

YouTube

Facebook

buzzfeed

As the publishing industry’s issues regarding monetisation move front and centre in the political debate over Facebook’s media influence, the way consumers discover and interact with news content stands...

Social TV Show Fandom
Nuances In Engagement Among SVOD Subscribers

Tim Mulligan

October 2017

US

UK

australia

As the TV viewing experience becomes increasingly fragmented across the digital sphere, TV show fandom is becoming ever more nuanced. Across the five largest social apps by weekly usage, TV brand engagement...

Netflix Q3 2017
Netflix Gains 100 Million-plus Paid Subscribers

Tunde Sowande

October 2017

SVOD

Netflix consumer trends

financial statements

Netflix has achieved a commercial milestone in becoming the first Subscriber Video On Demand (SVOD) service company to have over 100 million paying streaming subscribers. Netflix has managed to attract...

Rovio’s Pre-IPO Health Check

Karol Severin

October 2017

rovio

Angry Birds

Angry Birds 2

Rovio, the publisher of Angry Birds, announced it would go public in October 2017 via NASDAQ Helsinki. The company is beyond its user growth peak, but is midway through a company turn around in terms of...

Streaming Services Market Shares
Spotify Leads Across Most Markets

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Mark Mulligan

October 2017

Subscriptions

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

This report includes the key findings of MIDiA’s Global Music Subscriber Market Share Model in which we present the subscribers, revenues and market shares of streaming services in more than 20 different...

Media Company Strategy
How Legacy Format Audiences Can Fund Digital Transition

Zach Fuller

September 2017

publishing

physical books

mass media

Media’s well documented struggles of balancing the decline of ad revenue with building digital subscriber bases has resulted in surprising strategic actions by some of its largest entities. As the tech...

The Emerging Video Content Bubble

Tim Mulligan

September 2017

Apple

YouTube

Amazon

Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) services like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have spurred a scripted drama renaissance and, in doing, so have trigged a content licensing arms race. Traditional TV networks...

Amazon Music
The Dark Horse Comes Out Of The Shadows

Mark Mulligan

September 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

Music Subscriptions

Back in the days when online music meant online CD sales, Amazon was the king. Then, along came Apple with iTunes music store and Amazon saw the throne snatched from its hands. No sooner had Apple started...

Going Beyond Sync
Mutually Beneficial Opportunities in Music And Games

Karol Severin

September 2017

music behaviour

music services

playlisting

There is a significant behavioural and demographic overlap between gamers and music consumers. An affinity for music, adoption of subscription services, attendance of live music events, merchandise sales...

Quarterly Digital Content Trends
Q2 2017

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Mark Mulligan

August 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

US

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

Snap Inc Q2 2017
Diminishing User Growth Dwarfs Revenue Increase

Tunde Sowande

August 2017

Snap Inc

earnings

results

Snap Inc’s release of its second quarter earnings has been met with negative reception from the financial sector, as the company’s Q2 2017 financial results, which was below analyst revenue projections,...

Mobile App Discovery
Targeting Gamers With Word Of Mouth

Karol Severin

August 2017

ASO

app store optimization

app discovery

App discovery has come a long way since the rise of mobile app stores. What were once relatively simple app marketplaces are evolving into more carefully curated experiences, in a bid to showcase effectively...

Music Rights Disruption
The Transparency Agenda

Mark Mulligan

August 2017

music publishers

Apple

Spotify

Music rights have never been simple but now the complexity is reaching such a level that the digital music marketplace is beginning to buckle under the strain. With growing demand across the board for...

TV Show Fandom Q2 2017
Measuring The Impact Of US TV

Mark Mulligan

August 2017

Streaming

US

UK

In our July report, TV Show Fandom: Measuring TV Shows’ Real Appeal, we introduced MIDiA’s quarterly Paid Content Brand Tracker by revealing a sneak peek of the data we track for more than 50 TV shows...

Content Piracy
Piracy Reinvented In The Streaming Era

Mark Mulligan

August 2017

Streaming

Spotify

YouTube

Piracy was one of the original driving forces behind the digital content marketplace. Without Peer-to-peer (P2P) we may never have had Spotify, iPlayer or Netflix, all of which were direct responses to...

YouTube Q2 2017
Quietly Bigger And Better Than Ever

Tim Mulligan

July 2017

Video

YouTube

The announcement in June 2017 that YouTube had 1.5 billion monthly logged-in users was the first official user number since the 2013 tally of One billion unique monthly users. This metrics reticence stands...