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Taylor Swift, The Black Dog, and the fan frenzy flywheel

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Kriss Thakrar

25 Apr 2024

A new Taylor Swift album is almost guaranteed to start a fan frenzy - the question is, what form will it take? Breaking Spotify records is a given, but digital consumption is not enough to satiate super...

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Why Netflix will no longer publicly report subscribers

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Tim Mulligan

23 Apr 2024

Netflix’s Q1 2024 numbers are impressive: revenues are up 15% Year on Year (YoY), operating income is up 54%, and operating margin increased by seven percentage points to 28%. The numbers were so impressive,...

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Inverse incentives: the implications of Spotify’s Substack integration for podcasts

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Rutger Rosenborg

19 Apr 2024

As platform decay seeps into major tech platforms and microcultures proliferate across the internet, feature development becomes less about building native tools and more about third-party integrations...

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Collector’s editions are becoming a backdoor for monetising early access

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Rhys Elliott

17 Apr 2024

Since publishers first increased AAA game prices from $60 to $70 in 2020, many people have asked MIDiA if publishers will raise that price further. Our answer: they already have – sort of, anyway. Via...

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Litigation versus innovation-treading the IP tightrope in the AI era

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Tim Mulligan

17 Apr 2024

The year so far has been largely shaped by AI and perception of just how much it is poised to transform consumer lives. The primary focus has been on the technology and how it may be applied. However,...

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Game budgets have gone out of control – let's shrink the scope

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Rhys Elliott

11 Apr 2024

PlayStation Productions

AAA game development budgets and timelines for single-player games are getting out of hand. This was not always the case, but there has been an insidious creep over the past 20 years. While the cost of...

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What podcast slowdown? 1.2 billion people will be listening by 2030

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Rutger Rosenborg

11 Apr 2024

spotify podcasts

Is podcasting slowing or growing? Both, as it turns out. With marketing and advertising budget cuts contributing to layoffs and cancellations at major podcasting players like Spotify and NPR, 2023 was...

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The rise of the IP bank

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Tim Mulligan

10 Apr 2024

Post-lockdown saw the rise of media fusion into mainstream media formats, with games titles such as The Last of Us being made into episodic TV series. This followed the metaverse V1 experiences of live...

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Steam is the unlikely winner of the modern console wars – for now

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Rhys Elliott

4 Apr 2024

Thanks to console manufacturers and third-party publishers moving content to Steam, Valve now boasts one of the most diverse AAA offerings on the market, benefitting from new strategies adopted by Xbox...

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Spotify wants to make podcasts a marketing driver for music

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Rutger Rosenborg

4 Apr 2024

Music streaming

Last summer, Variety published an article about the effect Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast has on boosting the streams of her musician guests . According to Spotify, Anitta’s streams increased...

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Disney’s IP bank is its ultimate superpower which it needs to double down on investing in hybrid IRL success

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Tim Mulligan

4 Apr 2024

Disney’s annual shareholder meeting has confirmed that its management team, led by streaming and IP visionary Bob Iger, remains firmly in control of the media major’s destiny by thwarting Nelson Peltz’s...

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Take-Two acquires Gearbox as cross entertainment synergies ramp up

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Karol Severin

28 Mar 2024

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We have barely made it to the end of the first calendar quarter of 2024 and MIDiA’s prediction about a $100 million+ acquisition in the games industry has panned out. Take-Two Interactive (Take-Two)...

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AI could enable a golden age of audio piracy

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Rutger Rosenborg

28 Mar 2024

Everyone knows the story: In the early 2000s, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing platforms like Napster, Kazaa, and LimeWire helped digital music piracy proliferate, ultimately decimating recorded music revenue...

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As Spotify corners audiobooks, Audible eyes functional audio

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Rutger Rosenborg

22 Mar 2024

Over the course of 30 years, Audible’s catalogue has grown to include more than 470,000 audiobooks, at least according to their own ads . In less than a year, Spotify’s catalogue has grown to include...

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What would a post-TikTok (US) future look like?

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Hanna Kahlert

14 Mar 2024

The US House of Representatives has just passed a bill, with bipartisan support, which would make TikTok break with parent company Bytedance or be banned from app stores. Based on current discourse, it...

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BarbenHeimer needs to usher in media fusion to fully revitalise cinema

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Tim Mulligan

13 Mar 2024

In many ways the 96th Academy Awards was positioned as the critical confirmation of last year’s double blockbuster performances of Oppenheimer and Barbie . Collectively, these titles generated $2.4 billion...

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New audiobook pricing gives Spotify the best of both worlds

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Rutger Rosenborg

6 Mar 2024

In late 2023, Spotify slowly started rolling out audiobooks to Premium subscribers in select markets . In contrast with Spotify’s unlimited supply of music, Premium subscribers were allotted 15 hours...

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Is BritBox International the missing commercial streaming catalyst for the BBC?

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Tim Mulligan

4 Mar 2024

Business Strategy

Last Friday, ITV announced the sale of its entire 50% interest subscription video on demand (SVOD) service to its partner and fellow shareholder, BBC Studios (the commercial arm of the BBC). BritBox was...

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Why don’t we hear popular music on popular podcasts?

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Rutger Rosenborg

29 Feb 2024

There are a number of popular podcasts that dissect popular music. One is called, well, Dissect . Others are Popcast , Song Exploder , and Switched on Pop . Podcasts like these usually play extended sections...

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Paramount is on the right track but does it have enough time?

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Tim Mulligan

29 Feb 2024

Yesterday, Paramount announced its full year 2023 financial results. The numbers were stark, with revenues down 2% to $29.7 billion and an operating loss of $451 million. The stock price declined at the...

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