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Brazil music market
Ready for prime time

Tatiana Cirisano and Leo Morel

19 Sep 2024

Business Strategy

Brazil’s large, youthful population has fully embraced streaming. It is now the country’s top consumption format and the source of 82% of its recorded music revenue. This is helping Brazilians’ strong connection to music reach across borders, with the Brazilian funk genre and artists like Anitta becoming global sensations.

Brazil climbs the global top 10: a new era for the music market

Leo Morel

3 Oct 2024

brazil music market LATAM Music streaming

In recent years, Brazil’s music market has transformed, echoing the nation’s broader economic and cultural dynamics. After facing a severe economic crisis that began in 2017, Brazil is now experiencing a resurgence which has propelled it to the ninth largest global economy, according to the Inte...

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BlueSky benefits from X’s Brazil ban: a fragmenting social ecosystem is shaky ground for incumbents

Hanna Kahlert

10 Sep 2024

market Brazil Bluesky

X has long been the social platform of ‘on the pulse’ news updates and cultural happenings. Its users over-index for using social platforms to keep up with news and culture (as outlined in our social platform user behaviour report ), and its high-profile posts often make it into the broader news...

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From ubiquitous bird app to banned in Brazil: what happened to X (and will it happen to others)?

Hanna Kahlert

4 Sep 2024

X TikTok Twitter

Early in August, Elon Musk was vaguely threatened with extradition to the UK for his role in spreading misinformation that resulted in riots. Three weeks later, X was banned in Brazil, following unpaid fines and allegations that the app was being used to spread politically threatening misinformation.

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Brasil ingressa no top 10 global: uma nova era para o mercado brasileiro de música

Leo Morel

3 Oct 2024

brazil music market LATAM Music streaming

O mercado musical brasileiro se desenvolveu significativamente nos últimos anos em decorrência de uma ampla dinâmica econômica, cultural e tecnológica no país. Depois de enfrentar uma grave crise econômica que começou em 2017, o Brasil agora está retornando ao crescimento, com um produto in...

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As Spotify cuts back on podcast creation, opportunities arise for competitors in Latin America

Rutger Rosenborg

21 Aug 2024

Audio Business Strategy Spotify

In an early 2024 editorial for media and marketing publication Campaign, we declared, “ It is time for the podcast industry to think global and act local ”. Geared towards helping advertisers better optimise their content for international success, the larger context of this declaration was the ...

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Ofcom, Elon Musk, and the future of the social platform marketplace

Hanna Kahlert

30 Oct 2024

regulation Social platforms TikTok

Earlier this year, riots broke out across the UK, fuelled largely by misinformation and inflammatory discourse on social media. At the time, it was unclear who bore responsibility: did the brunt of the blame fall on certain accounts and creators, or do social platforms need to take a firmer approach...

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State of the music creator economy
AI’s growing reach

Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

21 Jan 2025

Innovation Creators revenue

Still recovering from post-pandemic aftershocks, the music creator economy now faces unprecedented disruption from generative AI. More people are creating than ever before (both as creators and consumers) and sounds, services, and software revenue is growing well (the latter boosted by generative AI).

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Pixels to playlists
Music preferences and behaviours of gamers

Rhys Elliott

28 Mar 2025

Innovation Labels US

The global games industry is a $236.9 billion behemoth. It now rivals film, television, and music combined in terms of revenues and is a cultural driver. Yet, for music companies, labels, and platforms, gaming represents more than a parallel market: it is agateway to the world’s most engaged, tech-savvy, and monetisable audience.

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International success for local language artists
A strategic playbook

Laura Fisher

24 Jun 2025

UK France Spotify

The music industry is undergoing a paradigm shift. Success once required artists to fit the traditional industry model where anglicisation and relocation to traditional hubs like Los Angeles, New York, or London were prerequisites. Streaming platforms have democratised access, enabling artists to achieve international fame while remaining culturall...

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Ad-supported video consumer snapshot Q4 2022
US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, and Brazil

Tim Mulligan

1 Apr 2023

Audience Insight

This report presents a snapshot of ad-supported video users, including age breakdowns, time spent on video (subscription video on demand (SVOD), ad-supported video on demand (AVOD), and pay-per-view), responsiveness to ads, devices used, and TV genre preferences.

Music streaming consumer profile Q4 2024
Stabilisation and fandom slowdown

Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

26 Feb 2025

Willingness to pay Music consumers Streaming

Consumer music behaviours are both stabilising and showing signs of coming change. Change that could be challenging for all music business stakeholders, especially with regards to fandom monetisation. This report presents data-focused visuals and impactful analysis of trends and anomalies that will inform your understanding of what is happening to ...

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Streaming strongholds
High-potential markets for global music players

Perry Gresham

11 Aug 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...

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Video consumer monetisation snapshot Q3 2022
US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, and Brazil

Tim Mulligan

1 Feb 2023

Online video Audience Insight video monetisation

This slide deck presents consumer demand for video subscription services, transactional video consumption, and advertising responsiveness. The data is pulled from MIDiA’s Q3 2022 consumer survey, fielded in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, South Korea, and Brazil.

Why 'Global South' is a limiting label for the music industry

Laura Fisher

20 Jun 2025

Business Strategy Music Artists

At MIDiA, we have started critically reassessing the use of the term‘ Global South’ , a phrase entrenched in industry and geopolitical discourse but increasingly unfit for purpose in today’s complex entertainment landscape.

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The BlueSky migration: How cultural shifts can disrupt even the most established social media platforms

Hanna Kahlert

19 Nov 2024

Bluesky mastodon Twitter

Twitter clones have proliferated since Elon Musk first bought and renamed the platform to X in 2022. Despite a lot of buzz around platforms like Mastodon and BlueSky, none have seemed to capture a significant audience, with X’s weekly active usage remaining consistent.

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Podcasts as a key information source
Implications for media companies

Rutger Rosenborg

11 Apr 2025

Media Podcasts Audience Insight

Podcasts have begun to rival traditional media as a key source of news and political information for podcast listeners, especially among millennials and Gen Z. To stay relevant, traditional media must innovate, while podcast companies can solidify their dominance.

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O mercado brasileiro de música
Rumo ao estrelato

Leo Morel and Tatiana Cirisano

19 Sep 2024

Business Strategy

Grande parte da população do Brasil adotou o streaming como formato de consumo musical. Atualmente, ele é o principal formato de consumo do país, correspondente a 82% de sua receita de música gravada. Isto, atrelada a forte conexão dos brasileiros com a música, está contribuindo para expandir as fronteiras da música local, com o funk brasi...

How a US TikTok ban could accelerate the rise of the Global South

Tatiana Cirisano

9 Jan 2025

Global South TikTok Music

Amid a flurry of year-end lists released last month, TikTok published a ranking of the platform’s most popular songs. While US music executives have been busy considering how a potential TikTok ban could impact their artists in the new year, the number one track on TikTok in 2024 was not by an Ame...

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UK media consumption Q4 2024
A mature market with niche growth prospects

Laura Fisher

23 Apr 2025

Streaming Streaming Music US

This report presents MIDiA consumer entertainment data across media, music, audio, and games. Key data and insights: Time spent and weekly active users (by format and platform)for streaming music, podcasts, social media, games consoles and more. All data refers to the UK only (n = 1,000) except for ‘all-country average’ referring to the weighte...

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