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Global Music Forecasts 2015-2020
Declining Legacy Formats Cancel Out Streaming Growth

Mark Mulligan

23 Oct 2015

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In a few short years streaming has gone from being an interesting sideshow to the most important component of the recorded music market in terms of impact, innovation and disruption, though not in revenue terms. Indeed streaming still only represents 16% of all recorded music revenue but its growth is directly impacting virtually every other aspect...

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App Whales And Minnows
Segmenting Mobile App Buyers

Karol Severin

23 Sep 2015

ARPU mobile app economy app buyers

Despite being small in number, app buyers are the bread and butter of the current mobile app economy, accounting for the majority of global app revenue. But their behaviour is too often simply benchmarked against that of free app users. However, it is not a binary equation.

Music Market Country Profile: Mexico
How Streaming Is Unlocking Latent Opportunity

Leo Morel

21 Sep 2015

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The Mexican music market is one with huge potential despite two consecutive years of recorded music revenue decline. With a population of 122 million and growing internet and smartphone penetration, Mexico has the foundations for becoming a key digital music market.

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Variable Programming
How Online Video Is Shaking Off The Schedule Straightjacket

Tim Mulligan

21 Sep 2015

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The advent of Video On Demand transformed the business models of the broadcast and pay-TV industries. Now it is set to have an equally disruptive impact on the nature of video content itself as the old analogue limits of linear TV programming no longer apply.

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Connected Home Audio Forecasts, 2015 to 2020
The Reinvention Of Hi-Fi

Mark Mulligan

25 Aug 2015

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While the home hi-fi market was fading into irrelevance Sonos quietly set about reimagining the whole concept of in-home audio. Now connected home audio is coming of age, with Sonos the dominant player in the multi-room audio segment. Consequently incumbents of all shapes and sizes are rising themselves from their slumbers and entering the market i...

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The Mainstreaming Of SVOD
How Apple Can Make Video Subscriptions Ready For Primetime

Tim Mulligan

13 Aug 2015

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The digital revolution has created an increasingly fragmented TV landscape. Traditional Pay TV still clings to its old business model whilst Netflix and Amazon hammer on its door, wooing audiences and tempting both cord cutters and cord nevers with its headline grabbing content budgets and original commissioning.

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Streaming Music Discovery
When The Journey Becomes The Destination

Mark Mulligan

31 Jul 2015

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When YouTube first starting rising to prominence streaming music was still in its infancy. Thus even though royalty payments were far from setting the world alight, there was a clear case for YouTube views driving discovery which then led to sales. Fast forward to 2015 and digital sales are rapidly losing ground to streaming which in turn throws in...

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Facebook Video
Not The Real Deal Yet But Could Still Unseat YouTube

Mark Mulligan

23 Jul 2015

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Facebook is emerging as a serious challenger to YouTube and is building clear momentum that is giving the incumbent cause for concern in a way that few other short form challengers have yet managed to do. The total number of videos viewed by Facebook users was 4 billion a day in April 2015, up from 3 billion only three months earlier.

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Global Video Forecast 2015-2020
Subscriptions Come Of Age

Tim Mulligan

23 Jul 2015

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2015 to 2020 will be a transformational period for the video sector. Accessing TV content online will become mainstream as video penetration reaches 50% by 2019. Despite solid adoption of subscription and video sharing services, it will be the migration of mass-market TV online that will drive the explosive growth.

Mobile Market Country Profile: Germany
A Maturing App Superpower

Karol Severin

2 Jul 2015

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The mobile market in Germany is in the middle of a consumer behavior shift. Smartphone penetration and app usage have entered the mainstream and digital content consumption on mobile is on the rise, but app payment remains niche. Consumers switching from traditional phone calls and texting to internet voice communication and messaging contribute to...

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Ownership to Access, And Back
Physical Ownership Acquires A New Value In The Digital Era

Tim Mulligan

2 Jul 2015

US UK Sweden

It seems counter intuitive to suggest the physical ownership of content has an addressable market in the digital era. Despite the ubiquity of digital delivery mechanisms for premium content, the desire for physical possession has not gone away. A market opportunity exists to provide complementary physical products both as reassurance for older gene...

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On Demand In Demand
Meeting The Needs Of The On Demand Fan

Mark Mulligan

26 Jun 2015

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2014 was undoubtedly streaming’s biggest year yet, growing by 39% and accounting for nearly a third of all digital revenues. But the market is a long distance yet from being in a position where it can be considered established. While free streaming, YouTube in particular, is booming, subscriptions remain confined to niche audiences.

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Music Publishing At A Cross Roads
How Streaming Is Transforming The Outlook For Music Publishers

Mark Mulligan

19 Jun 2015

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Everything starts with the song yet music publishers have often been the last part of the digital equation. Relative insulation from the effects of declining music sales have enabled publishers to have a far less digital centric worldview than record labels.

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Mobile App Economy Forecast 2015-2020
The Emergence Of A Mature Market

Karol Severin

12 Jun 2015

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The global app economy is maturing. This transformation will bring a multitude of headline-worthy power shifts in the next five years. At the top, the share of global revenue will shift significantly between regions, as well as between platforms. Furthermore, the revenue mix will become more even between spend segments, as whales approach their ful...

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Mobile App Payments
Fishing For Whales And Minnows

Karol Severin

12 Jun 2015

Freemium app economy in app purchase

78% of mobile app revenue is concentrated in 26% of app buyers with the majority of that revenue driven by in-app purchases. These ‘whales’ are the beating heart of the mobile app economy but their small number means that they make precarious foundations for the market.

Mobile Market Country Profile: Sweden
Sophisticated Swedes Set The Pace

Karol Severin

20 May 2015

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Sweden embraced the smartphone revolution like few other markets. Heavy investments in mobile and internet infrastructure led to one of the highest app user penetration rates in the world. As its mature app market approaches saturation, increasing ARPU will become the core focal point of future growth strategy.

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The Netflix Effect
How Netflix Is Changing The Rules For TV

Tim Mulligan

12 May 2015

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Since reinventing itself as an online video subscription platform Netflix has transformed the paid video market. By delivering its online offering into consumers’ living rooms through connected TVs it removed the barrier between the TV and the internet.

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The Brazilian Music Consumer
Tentative Steps In An Emerging Digital Market

Leo Morel

8 May 2015

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The Brazilian digital music market is still in a formative stage in contrast to developed markets such as the USA and the UK. Apple’s iTunes store only started to operate in Brazil in 2012 and music streaming service Spotify only began its Brazilian activities in 2014.

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The Mobile App Funnel
Benchmarking The Mobile App Customer Lifecycle

Karol Severin

7 May 2015

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App companies lose users and revenue right across the user acquisition and retention process. Thus as the global app market grows the amount of lost revenue accelerates also. MIDiA’s app funnel analysis reveals just where on the customer life cycle users are lost, why they go and provides industry averages to benchmark against for freemium apps ...

Video Market Country Profile: UK
Catch-Up TV Supercharges The Market

Tim Mulligan

20 Apr 2015

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Online TV viewing in the UK is now a mainstream consumer activity. This has been facilitated by near universal levels of internet connectivity and smartphone adoption and driven by the unique role played by national broadcaster the BBC. However while the UK is in the vanguard of video viewing, the dominant position of BBC’s iPlayer ad-free OTT (O...

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