The Emergence Of The Always On Gamer
Profiling Console Owners

Karol Severin

March 2017

Apple

Google

Apple TV

The game console owner segment is evolving fast. Still relatively young for now, console game fans are both aging and heading towards truly mainstream demographic distribution. Simultaneously, console subscription models are gaining traction, migrating premium physical software budgets into digital spend.

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Mobile Gamer User Profile
Mobile Is The Unifying Factor For Gamers

Karol Severin

February 2017

Spotify

YouTube

Deezer

Whatever your digital content proposition, mobile gamers comprise a significant share of your user base. The segment is not only important due to its sheer size and app economy value, but also because it straddles otherwise diverse components of the digital entertainment landscape, be it video, music, or messaging.

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Mobile App Cross Usage
Music

Karol Severin

February 2017

Streaming Music

streaming subscriptions

value proposition

Mobile app usage is defined by consumers engaging with a multitude of propositions, even when they serve a very similar purpose. Consumers often use multiple different messaging apps, video apps and music apps. Mobile was the catalyst for streaming music’s growth and now accounts for 80% of all streaming activity.

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Fake News 2017
Social Media’s Coming of Age

Zach Fuller

January 2017

Facebook

Social media

new media

By reaching the apex of cultural ubiquity, social media is being forced to answer questions it never imagined it would need to. Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Co.’s original missions could not have comprehended the way in which their communications tools would construct world-views.

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US Video Market Overview
SVOD Grows The Pay-TV Market

Tim Mulligan

January 2017

US

Streaming video

SVOD

The US continues to dominate global video trends as the world’s most valuable online video market. The video audience continues to experience strong growth fueled by a combination of increased technological sophistication of the addressable market and increased engagement of existing users.

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Over 50 And Mobile
Profiling The Underserved Older Mobile Consumer

Karol Severin

December 2016

mobile behaviour

50+ segment

50 year old

The over 50 segment has been one of the most neglected during the rise of mobile platforms, social media and digital entertainment. The neglect is understandable considering their well-earned reputation for being more tech cautious. This will all change, though not overnight, as younger digitally savvy consumers age.

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Facebook Messenger User Profile
Streaming Savvy Mainstream Messaging App Users

Karol Severin

December 2016

Facebook messenger

Mobile messaging

Messaging apps

Facebook Messenger has caught up with WhatsApp, boasting more than 1 billion Monthly Active Users (MAUs). Along with WhatsApp and Instagram, Messenger is part of Facebook’s bet on the future of audiences as they migrate away from social networks. Facebook’s messaging apps are the company’s gateway to owning as much as possible of consumers’...

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Paid Content Consumer Deep Dive
The Emergence Of A Sophisticated Audience

Zach Fuller

November 2016

Subscriptions

Streaming

Online video

In the old world, there were clear demarcations between media types, bordered with proprietary media and playback devices. However, different entertainment forms now exist in more interdependent ecosystems than they did in the analogue era, with all-in-one app stores blurring the boundaries and turning media consumption into an amorphous whole wher...

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Netflix User Profile
Mass Market Streaming Video Users

Tim Mulligan

November 2016

Streaming video

Netflix

Video subscriptions

Netflix is the poster child of Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) services with a rollout in 2016 to 130 territories worldwide and international subscribers accounting for 45% of users. A 2016 $1 billion bond issuance to fund increased content spend to $6 billion for 2017 underlines both the ambition and the resources being deployed by the company...

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Snapchat User Profile
Valuable, Digitally Savvy Millennials

Mark Mulligan

November 2016

digital natives

apps

mobile apps

Snapchat represents the Millennial zeitgeist more than any other single app. It continues to engage digitally native young audiences just as much as it appeals to traditional media brands, such as Viacom and CBS, desperate to reach young audiences on their own turf.

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Spotify User Profile
An Increasingly Mainstream Yet Digitally Sophisticated Audience

Mark Mulligan

November 2016

Subscriptions

Streaming

Spotify

Spotify is the poster child of streaming music, having done more than any other company to grow the segment and to prove the freemium business model at scale. It has built an active user base that outshines any other freemium music service, and through tactics such as telco bundles and pricing discounts continues to squeeze every last drop of oppor...

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Soundcloud User Profile
Male Dominated Music Sophisticates

Mark Mulligan

November 2016

Streaming

Streaming Music

SoundCloud

SoundCloud is in many respects the odd one out in the audio streaming landscape. While the market is dominated by major label orientated subscription services like Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Napster, SoundCloud has plotted a different path – one centred around independent content, creator uploads and free access.

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Instagram User Profile
Edging Towards Mainstream

Zach Fuller

November 2016

Facebook

Mobile messaging

Instagram

Instagram was far from the first image-centric service to gain prominence, but something about its simple interface, filtering capabilities and ease of sharing saw the platform become something of a visual lingua franca for the selfie-generation. Now part of Facebook and boasting impressive growth figures, it surprised many with its longevity and c...

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How Consumers Adopt Technology
Why The S-Curve Rules

Mark Mulligan

November 2016

consumer behavior

early adopters

mainstream

Consumers adopt technology in predictable ways, and even though technology adoption is far faster now than it has ever been, it continues to follow traditional growth patterns. Mobile app stores are enabling technologies to reach global scale and mainstream adoption within their addressable audiences at a far faster rate than ever before.

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Adblocker User Deep Dive
High Value Users that Cannot Be Ignored

Karol Severin

October 2016

adblocking

mobile advertising

adblockers

Adblocking is arguably the single biggest disruptive threat digital media businesses have faced. But it is the users of adblockers and their motivations rather than the technology itself that matter most. Adblocker users comprise a segment that advertisers are no longer reaching online and on mobile.

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Music in Virtual Reality
An Opportunity To Fill The Content Void

Zach Fuller

September 2016

music industry

music videos

virtual reality

A transformational technology in need of a meaningful content offering meets a wounded industry looking to new revenue streams. Despite their obvious differences, music (as one of the first and most vigorously disrupted mediums by the internet), and Virtual Reality (as a poster-child of technology’s brave new world), could yet prove natural allie...

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Pokémon Go User Deep Dive
Life After The Hype

Karol Severin

September 2016

pokemon go

pokemon

niantic

With over 100 million downloads and 20 million daily active users, Pokémon Go has taken the digital world by storm. Although the initial hype is inevitably becoming grounded by reality, Pokémon Go is still performing strongly. Although niche by overall digital measures, the Pokémon Go player user base has a sizeable foothold, and behavioural tra...

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Video Consumer Trends In The UK
An Increasingly Diverse Consumer Landscape

Tim Mulligan

September 2016

SVOD

TVOD

Messaging apps

UK consumers are becoming increasingly sophisticated online video users. This, though, is not entirely their choice, but it is instead a reflection of the increasingly complex services landscape. Messaging platforms are also playing a bigger role than ever.

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Music Messaging Apps Vendor Landscape
Music Consumption Will Never Quite Be The Same Again

Mark Mulligan

August 2016

music apps

youth

generation edge

Music messaging apps are one of the most exciting and disruptive music consumer behaviours to emerge since file sharing first raised its head in the late 1990s. Apps like Musical.ly and Dubsmash have catalyzed entirely new ways for young music fans to engage with music, blurring the lines between creator and audience.

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Brazil Video Market Country Profile
Social Video and Pay-TV Vie for Dominance

Leo Morel

August 2016

Brazil

Online video

video consumers

Despite the current period of economic and political crises, Brazil has become one of the main digital video consumption markets globally on account of smartphone and YouTube proliferation. Nevertheless, traditional media such as free-to-air and pay-TV still have a major presence among Brazil’s cultural habits.

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