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Demand Creation: What’s the Next Big Growth Curve for Music?

Keith Jopling

11 Dec 2019

At Spotify’s last quarterly reporting session, CEO Daniel Ek talked about the company’s creator strategy, as part of the wider development of becoming a “2-sided marketplace”: “The strategy has...

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Post-Peak Attention and the Case for Micropayments

Zach Fuller

9 Dec 2019

Success in new business paradigms involves wasting what is abundant to capture what is scarce. The Industrial Revolution did this by taking advantage of technologies that used the finite resource of human...

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Universal Search – The Gaping Hole in Streaming Video

Amanda Stears

5 Dec 2019

The day is done and you are slouched on the sofa, ready for some binge watching. But how often have you found yourself aimlessly scrolling through Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV etc. not knowing exactly...

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Music Subscriber Market Shares H1 2019

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Mark Mulligan

5 Dec 2019

The global streaming market continues to grow at pace. At the end of June 2019 there were 304.9 million music subscribers globally. That was up 34 million on the end of 2018, while the June 2018 to June...

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Streaming Is Finally Beginning to Turn the German Market

Zach Fuller

4 Dec 2019

german music market

Still the fourth-largest market by revenue after the US, UK and Japan, Germany has been comparatively slow to make the digital transition while remaining a key territory for record labels due to its scale,...

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Why the Music Industry Needs Bytedance to Disrupt It

Mark Mulligan

18 Nov 2019

Back in September 2018 I suggested that Spotify faced a Tencent risk, with the potential of Tencent launching a competitive offering in markets that Spotify is not yet in. This would effectively divide...

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Seven Developments in Recorded Music in the 2010s (and the Songs that Defined them)

Zach Fuller

6 Nov 2019

cultural insight

Decade retrospectives are almost doomed to fail. Assess the 60s in 1969 and you would have likely overweighed the influence of Grand Funk Railroad compared to The Velvet Underground. When it comes to the...

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Creators Versus Distributors: What Happens When Brands Can No Longer Rely on Their Content?

Hanna Kahlert

4 Nov 2019

Colin Kaepernick

digital behaviour

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, technology is completely altering the relationship between ‘creators’ and distributors – and it is doing so in a way which is empowering the independent...

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Fortnite’s Black Hole: A Fandom Play for Peak Attention

Hanna Kahlert

14 Oct 2019

One would think that, in a highly competitive market where every entertainment proposition is now increasingly struggling to maintain engaged audience share, the ideal strategy would not be to obliterate...

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Abbey Road 50 Years On: The Two Worlds of Music Listening

Mark Mulligan

7 Oct 2019

artist audiences

artist fanbases

Half a century after it first after it first topped the charts, the Beatles’ Abbey Road is back at the summit of the UK charts. With the anniversary editions retailing for between $20 and $100, the impact...

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YouTube Returns to Its Roots by Making Originals Free

Amanda Stears

30 Aug 2019

ad supported strategy

YouTube is shifting its original programming strategy by lifting the paywall for all of its original content. Since the rebranding of YouTube Premium in 2018, viewers can opt to pay for a monthly subscription...

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The Frank Ocean Days May Be Gone, but Streaming Disintermediation Is Just Getting Going

Mark Mulligan

24 Jul 2019

Music Business Worldwide recently ran a story highlighting that both Spotify and Apple Music were backing independent artist (i.e. independent of record label rather than an indie label artist) Aaron Smith,...

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Independent Artists: The Age of Empowerment

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Mark Mulligan

11 Jul 2019

MIDiA is proud to announce an exclusive new report in conjunction with Amuse – Independent Artists: The Age of Empowerment . The report is based on a global survey of independent artists that we conducted...

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Big Machine (Inadvertently) Just Did a Promo Ad for Label Services Deals

Mark Mulligan

1 Jul 2019

The sales of Taylor Swift’s former label Big Machine Records to Scooter Braun has resulted in an ugly spat that has been played out very publicly. First Braun enthused about acquiring a ‘brilliant’...

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The Classical Music Market - Streaming's Next Genre?

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Dara Jegede

19 Jun 2019

classical music

Music Subscriptions

When IDAGIO commissioned MIDiA to explore the classical music audience globally, we were excited to validate the hypothesis that a classical music resurgence was possible in today’s on-demand music streaming...

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Here’s Why Apple Just Killed Off iTunes

Mark Mulligan

4 Jun 2019

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, U.S. June 3, 2019. REUTERS/Mason Trinca Apple has announced that it is closing iTunes and replacing...

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Quick Take: The Bull Argument for Music Publishing Acquisitions

Zach Fuller

30 May 2019

The music rights landgrab continues. This past week alone has seen Primary Wave take a stake in rights to Culture Club, having already inked a deal with the Whitney Houston Estate. Meanwhile, Hipgnosis...

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Quick Take: Spotify, Stories and Music – the Social Media Divide

Zach Fuller

16 May 2019

The story of a song’s creation is one of the great mysteries of music. Regularly are we regaled with anecdotes of a song emerging fully formed in a 15-minute flurry of creative genius. However, while...

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PledgeMusic and Not-So-Glorious Failure

Mark Mulligan

10 May 2019

Pioneering fan funding platform PledgeMusic is now officially over, having entered administration (i.e. Chapter 11) in the UK reportedly owing its artists around $1 million and with little expectation...

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Spotify, the Decline of Playlists and the Rise of Podcasts

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Mark Mulligan

11 Apr 2019

curated playlists

The following is a small excerpt from MIDiA’s forthcoming third edition of its ‘landmark State of the Streaming Nation’ report. For more information about this report email stephen@midiaresearch.com...

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