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Quick Take: Believe Digital Licenses QQ Music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Dec 2015

Following hot on the heals of last week’s Yonder Celcom deal in Malaysia , indie label distributor Believe Digital announced a licensing deal with Chinese telco Tencent’s QQ Music service. Although…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Music Discovery

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

30 Nov 2015

Chart Of The Week

discovery

free Streaming

When YouTube first starting rising to prominence streaming music was still in its infancy. Thus even though royalty payments were far form setting the world alight, there was a clear case for YouTube…

Yonder And The Next 100 Million

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

25 Nov 2015

Beyond Oblivion

celcom

Mobile content

Yonder’s partnership with Celcom Axciata in Malayisa is a deal that you might have missed . But you should pay attention because it points to the huge emerging market opportunity for music that is…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: How Music Measures Up Against Video

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

23 Nov 2015

Chart Of The Week

Music

music streaming

The music industry has long been viewed as a canary in the mine for how media industries transition into the digital era. In many respects that role has now been outlived. Book publishers quickly realised…

Consumer Spending On Digital Music Fell In 2014 [Yes You Read That Right]

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2015

Ad Supported

B2b

b2c

Spending money on recorded music has become a lifestyle choice, an honesty box for the conscientious consumer. No one really needs to pay for music anymore. That much is familiar to most, but what…

Quick Take: Apple Music Comes To Android

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Nov 2015

android

Apple

apple music

As long anticipated Apple has launched the Android edition of Apple Music. I t is a non-typical move for Apple but not one without precedent, not least of which the Windows edition of iTunes which was…

Quick Take: Facebook Music Stories

Blog post by Karol Severin

6 Nov 2015

Amazon

Apple

digital content

Facebook launched ‘Music Stories’ for iPhone users who use Spotify or Apple Music with more hardware and listening options to follow. Music Stories let’s you share 30 second music snippets from…

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Shazam

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Nov 2015

Data Point Of The Day

Mobile content

Music

Shazam has become part of the digital music marketplace furniture but is seeking out a new business model now as there's no money in the affiliate sales model for streams, not that there was ever that…

Pandora’s Serial Deal Shows That Music Alone Is No Longer Enough

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Nov 2015

Deezer

licensing

Mobile content

Pandora this week announced that it signed a deal to become the exclusive streaming partner for hugely successful podcast Serial. The move is interesting on many fronts, not least what impact having near-on-demand…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Listening Habits Of Streaming Music Consumers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

2 Nov 2015

albums

Chart Of The Week

Deezer

Although the relatively early stage of development of the streaming market means that most listening habits are not yet being changed, there are fundamental shifts emerging among streamers and subscribers…

Will Adele Be The Last Hurrah Of The Album Era?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

23 Oct 2015

adele

adele '25'

The much anticipated Adele album ‘25’ will go on sale on November 20 th and its lead single ‘Hello’ hit the airwaves and Vevo today , with Adele doing an impressive number of near-simultaneous…

First Take: Electric Jukebox Aims To Take Digital Music To The Mainstream

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Oct 2015

Apple

awakening

awakening the music industry in the digital age

Back in 2009 I wrote a report at Forrester entitled ' Taking Digital Music To The Mainstream: The Music Product Features For The Living Room’ . In it I outlined a vision for a standalone, affordable…

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: CD Buyers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

12 Oct 2015

cd buyers

Data Point Of The Day

The CD is not dead, the walking dead perhaps, but far from finished. In fact more people buy CDs (41% consumers) than any other recorded music product.The music buyer market is now firmly multi-speed,…

Welcome To The New Look MIDiA Research

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 Oct 2015

free music report

free report

midia

Over the past 6 months we’ve been busy working on a set of new features and content for MIDiA Research and today we finally get to tell you all about them! When we started MIDiA Research back in July…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Oct 2015

Apple

apple app store

apps

Piracy used to be the dominant narrative of the music industry in the digital era with companies like Napster and Kazaa becoming the cartoon villains. Many industry execs now pride themselves on having…

How Game Apps Will Benefit From Amazon's Entry Into The Merch Market

Blog post by Karol Severin

2 Oct 2015

Amazon

app publishers

Content Creators

After the launch of Amazon Underground, Amazon continues its strategy to actively support the long tail of more budget-constrained developers and content creators. Merch by Amazon, launched yesterday,…

The Digitally Native Music Consumer

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Aug 2015

digital music

digital natives

free music

MIDiA Research has published a new report looking at the music attitudes and behavior of Digital Natives. The report “The Digitally Native Music Consumer: A Digital Native Music Behaviour Deep Dive”…

Amazon Prime Music Shows Us Why Catalogue Size Doesn't Matter

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Jul 2015

Amazon

amazon music

Music

This week Amazon launches its streaming music service Amazon Prime Music in the UK. Amazon has long been the sleeping giant of digital music. In the days of CD ecommerce it ruled the roost, the dominant…

Apple Music, Pharrell Williams And The Exclusives Wars

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

24 Jun 2015

apple beats

apple music

exclusive content

Apple’s forthcoming streaming service Apple Music has been making no end of headlines . So far Apple is coming out on top and the latest development shows just how Apple intends to fully use its power…

Fighting Free With Free: How Youtube Usurped BitTorrent

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 May 2015

bittorrent

free music

Freemium

MIDiA Research has published a new report: 'Fighting Free With Free: How YouTube Usurped BitTorrent'. What follows are a few highlights from it. The full report and its accompanying datasets are available…

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