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Defining entertainment superfans
Characteristics, categories, and commercial impact

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Olivia Jones and Laura Fisher

September 2025

France

Australia

Spotify

Superfans represent a highly valuable yet consistently underleveraged audience segment for the entertainment industry. What drives this disconnect is the fact that – despite frequent anecdotal use of the term – a standardised, empirical definition remains absent, preventing companies from systematically identifying, nurturing, and monetising th...

MIDiA’s 2025 independent label survey

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Mark Mulligan

28 Aug 2025

Business Strategy

It’s that time of year again, MIDiA’s independent label and distributor survey is now live and waiting for your contributions! Click here to take the survey. The annual survey is an opportunity for the global independent community to have its voice heard – and this year is one of the most impo...

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Gamescom 2025: The top three trends from the games industry’s biggest event

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Brandon Sutton

28 Aug 2025

Business Strategy

The gaming industry’s largest showcase, Gamescom, wrapped up on Sunday 24 August, and with over 350,000 attendees, it broke records to become the most attended event in its history. Serving as an annual barometer for the industry, Gamescom helps set expectations for the upcoming holiday season, wh...

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The new Hollywood
Tactics for YouTube’s TV takeover

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Ben Woods

August 2025

Creators

Streaming

YouTube

YouTube is consolidating its takeover of the living room TV set. What began in the US is now becoming a global phenomenon. With younger audiences increasingly spending more time watching social video on the TV, broadcasters and streaming TV services must find a way to respond.

Why WEBTOON’s short-form video drive is a lesson in format flexibility

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Ben Woods

22 Aug 2025

Business Strategy

In June 2025, MIDiA made a call that WEBTOON , the vertical scrolling digital comic app, could pose a greater challenge to anime’s leading subscription streaming service, Crunchyroll. The conclusion was made based on the potential for WEBTOON to deliver a more compelling in-app offer around video.

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The unflattening of streaming

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Mark Mulligan

21 Aug 2025

Business Strategy

This post builds on our January 2025 post ‘The unflattening of music’ which itself built on two previous pieces (you can find links to both in that post). Industries arrive at pivot points when an accumulation of fissures coalesce into one big crack.

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MIDiA Research 2025-2032 global music publishing forecasts
A changing market

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Mark Mulligan

August 2025

Music creators

Music creators

Music publishing

Throughout the 2020s the music publishing market has outperformed that of the labels, though total revenues remain significantly smaller. The origins of this disparity lie in streaming royalty splits but publishers and CMOs have fought hard to increase their share and to start from a better position with the emerging formats that will shape tomorro...

More than a lineup: The importance of bold curation

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Laura Fisher

14 Aug 2025

Business Strategy

Have you noticed how many festival lineups this summer feature the same handful of artists? I have, and, crucially, fans are noticing it too. Where festival billings once offered a window into a distinctive scene, today’s lineups are merging into a wave of homogenised big-name experiences.

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Instagram Maps: Feature or future?

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Hanna Kahlert

14 Aug 2025

Meta’s Instagram has begun rolling out a new ‘Maps’ feature, similar to Snapchat’s (but with added privacy concerns). It has also rolled out a new ‘friends’ tab on the Reels page, allowing users to see videos already liked by others they follow, seemingly weighted by the friends they int...

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Streaming strongholds
High-potential markets for global music players

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Perry Gresham

August 2025

ARPU

Labels

Streaming

While the balance of music streamers continues to tip towards global south markets, their smaller ARPU rates limit their revenues. Meanwhile, periodic price-rises and the advent of supremium will reinforce the contributions from the West. This report highlights streaming strongholds, those markets which, underscored by high music engagement and his...

Netflix ramps up games spending: A strategic bet on the future of streaming

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Brandon Sutton

7 Aug 2025

Business Strategy

During its Q2 FY2025 earnings call, Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters announced plans to increase investment into its gaming division (via GameSpot ). At first glance, this move may seem surprising, given the company’s rocky experience in the gaming space so far.

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The late-night dilemma: Balancing tradition and disruption

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Laura Fisher

31 Jul 2025

Business Strategy

Two competing opinions landed in my inbox recently, both signalling a shift in late-night entertainment, but from entirely different perspectives. The first, from RainNews , argued that podcasts were replacing traditional late-night TV.

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The music business is splitting in two. Here’s why songwriters are reinventing their role

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Tatiana Cirisano

24 Jul 2025

Business Strategy

When systems fail, there are two options: try to fix what is broken, or build something new. In our ’s landmark ‘bifurcation theory’ report , MIDiA pinpointed a new class of music creators taking the latter path.

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Why legacy media should use creators as curators and content providers

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Ben Woods

23 Jul 2025

Business Strategy

Much of the traditional entertainment world is now working with creators. In fact, many of these companies have long-standing creator strategies when it comes to marketing. Whether it is a movie launch, a new TV series, video game, or album release, these businesses have a strong handle on which cre...

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What to do when the medium loses meaning

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Laura Fisher

17 Jul 2025

Business Strategy

We are living through a peculiar moment in media evolution, where the traditional categories used to organising content – TV, radio, podcast, film – are collapsing under their own weight. Not because they are obsolete, but because they do not reflect how audiences are consuming media.

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YouTube, AI, and the social content balancing act

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Ben Woods

16 Jul 2025

Business Strategy

How are social platforms coping as the AI floodgates open? For some time now, MIDiA has been advocating for social platforms to provide some protections to human creators from the increase in AI content.

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YouTubers want greater government support – and British broadcasters could help

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Ben Woods

8 Jul 2025

Business Strategy

Creator economy

Governments often struggle to keep pace with technological change. This can be frustrating for young but growing industries that need ministerial support to unlock the next stages of their economic potential.

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Beyond the hype
AI music creation in 2025

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Ben Woods

July 2025

Creators

France

Australia

Generative AI tools are forging a new type of creator and shifting music creator workflows. While creators and consumers alike are interested in AI tools as they emerge, converting users is still an evident challenge. Music fandom has its foot in the door to increasing AI-assisted consumer creation and could pave the way for niche AI tools.

MIDiA Research 2025-2032 global music forecasts | Recalibration

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Mark Mulligan

1 Jul 2025

Business Strategy

We are pleased to announce the release of MIDiA’s annual music forecasts report. This is always a labour of love and takes a bit longer than some other entities’ forecasts as our approach is more Etsy than Amazon, with every single line of data (and there are thousands of them) being hand crafte...

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MIDiA Research 2025-2032 global music forecasts
Recalibration

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Mark Mulligan, Tatiana Cirisano, Perry Gresham and Mark Qi

June 2025

Global

Business Strategy

global music forecasts

This report presents the key figures, trends, and drivers of MIDiA’s music forecast model. The figures presented in this report are both retail and label trade values, and they are in billions of US dollars – unless otherwise stated. An Excel file posted alongside this report provides complete country-level data, including DSP market shares and...

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