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Beyond the obvious
Building future-focused strategy

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Mark Mulligan, Keith Jopling and Kriss Thakrar

February 2024

Business strategy has long been demarcated across sustaining and disruptive innovation. In the digital realm the latter has had the upper hand, but as digital enters a slower growth phase, sustaining innovation...

Social landscape
Mapping the balance of platforms’ audience, features, and strategy

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Hanna Kahlert

February 2024

Audience Insight

This report maps how social platforms are used by consumers, looking at behaviours such as talking to friends, shopping / browsing, and creating content. It further looks at how this differs with age....

Superstars and their superfans
Turning point

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Tatiana Cirisano

February 2024

Audience Insight

Key data and insights included in this report: Consumer awareness, listenership, and fandom rates of music stars including Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Drake, Billie Eilish, Post Malone, The...

Optimising the monetisation opportunities for TV and film fandom in the TV-streaming era

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Tim Mulligan

February 2024

In an increasingly saturated entertainment landscape, understanding the fandom overlaps between previously distinct media formats is more important than ever. This is especially important for video as...

Music subscriber market shares Q3 2023
New momentum

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Mark Mulligan

January 2024

This report presents MIDiA’s music subscriber market shares report and various MIDiA consumer surveys. All music subscriber data in this report refers to third quarters of each respective year. Numbers...

Bundling 2.0
Pivoting the cost-of-living crisis into a cross-entertainment growth opportunity

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Tim Mulligan and Ben Woods

January 2024

Business Strategy

Bundling can ease pressures caused by the cost-of-living crisis by delivering consumer choice and stable recurring revenues for TV-streaming services. This is not a return to the pay TV model of old, but...

Independent label survey
Playing the volume game

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Mark Mulligan, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

January 2024

This report presents data from the 2023 MIDiA Research Independent Record Label survey The survey was fielded across three months in H1 2023, closing in May2023, with a sample size of 142 Topics covered...

MIDiA's 2024 predictions webinar
The algorithm is not listening

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Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Kriss Thakrar, Tatiana Cirisano, Perry Gresham, Kazia Rothwell, Ben Woods and Ashleigh Millar

January 2024

MIDiA analysts dive into our 2024 predictions, and why we believe the algorithm isn't listening. Watch the webinareither on YouTube or LinkedIn ....

Profiling gamers by platform

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Karol Severin

December 2023

Audience Insight

This report presents key metrics and consumer insights regarding mobile gamers, console gamers, and computer gamers. It is targeted to help investors, distributors, developers, and publishers understand...

Music and AI
Beyond the hype cycle

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Tatiana Cirisano

December 2023

Business Strategy

As with any emerging technology, recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have set in motion a flurry of excitement and investment, as well as fear and litigation. In this environment, it is...

The future revenue roadmap for ‘social’ platforms
Ads, subscriptions, and creator tools

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Hanna Kahlert

December 2023

As social platforms take a prominent role in the businesses of both professional creators and entertainment companies, and user creativity expands, social platforms have an opportunity to diversify their...

MIDiA’s 2024 predictions report
The algorithm is not listening

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Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Kriss Thakrar, Ashleigh Millar, Tatiana Cirisano, Perry Gresham, Kazia Rothwell and Ben Woods

December 2023

Business Strategy

2023 was another year of change and disruption. 2024 will be even more defined by change than the years that preceded it. But much of this change will be defined by reaction more than action. The unintended...

State of the music creator economy
The consumer era

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Mark Mulligan

December 2023

The pandemic triggered a surge in the music creator economy, which brought with it an influx of external interest and investment. 2022 saw growth moderate, but the long-term outlook is not only strong,...

Music x Climate

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Hanna Kahlert

December 2023

Audience Insight

Introduction As 2023 draws to a close, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place for the 28th year, it is an important time for the music industry to reflect on our impact on the environment...

The coming sports monetisation revolution

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Tim Mulligan

December 2023

Audience Insight

Despite recent sports rights hikes (driven by tech major interventions, such as Amazon’s NFL Thursday Night Football 2021 rights agreement), sports as a broadcast asset is under increased scrutiny. An...

Immersive video fandom
The rise of the centralised interactive fan world

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Ben Woods

November 2023

Product Strategy

Video IP holders could extract more value from superfans by deploying monetisation strategies used by social video platforms and virtual gaming universes. The music industry has already shown how, through...

Music industry earnings H1 2023
Dawn of the post-streaming era

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Tatiana Cirisano

November 2023

The post-pandemic revenue bump is settling and challenges, including the cost-of-living crisis and a Russo-Ukrainian war, continue to complicate the global economic climate. This report considers the impact...

Solid progress
German music consumer user profile

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Mark Mulligan

October 2023

Audience Insight

This report presents MIDiA consumer data for key music behaviours of German consumers All data is for Germany except when ‘all country average’ is referred to. This is the weighted average of all countries...

Radio future vision
Build the new and transform the old

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Annie Langston

October 2023

Business Strategy

Despite extensive efforts by radio broadcasters to redress the digital shift with offerings like podcasts and streaming apps, radio’s audience continues to fall. The fundamental question is: how does...

MIDiA Research 2023-2030 global games industry forecasts
Life post-peak

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Karol Severin and Perry Gresham

October 2023

Business Strategy

About this report This report discusses key drivers, inhibitors, and developments that will affect the games industry throughout the remainder of the decade. It offers investors, rightsholders, and distributors...

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