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UGC is the next music industry growth driver and the short-term opportunity is worth $6 billion

Blog post by Dara Jegede

26 Oct 2020

User-generated content will contribute a significant proportion of the growth in music consumption over the next two years in an opportunity that is worth circa. $6 billion to the music industry value…

Why DAZN is adapting to German consumer nuances with linear and digital bets

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

22 Oct 2020

AZN

sport-centric

SVOD

DAZN’s recently-established position as the ‘Netflix of sport’ has been a hard fought one, requiring extensive rights investment in order to carve out a compelling proposition. In the markets where…

Blurred lines: UGC is bringing creators and users closer, and blurring promotion with consumption

Blog post by Keith Jopling

21 Oct 2020

Video

Music

Games

Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 hit ‘Dreams’ is the latest ‘legacy hit’ to have also become the latest viral phenomenon, thanks to a skateboarder with a thirst for cranberry juice. In just one week, streams…

Live streaming and the role of music artist empowerment in the digital era

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

19 Oct 2020

music streaming

live streaming

coronavirus

As the coronavirus lockdowns have forced venues to close and people indoors, artists have been unevenly impacted across the music industry. While many bigger studios were forced to cease operations,…

HomePod Mini: Apple’s pandemic-era product

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Oct 2020

Music

Apple’s Tuesday product announcement showcased its 5G iPhones, but also included the launch of the new $99 HomePod Mini. Though it might have looked like a supporting act for the launch, its strategic…

Spotify is pushing podcasts beyond adolescence

Blog post by Keith Jopling

8 Oct 2020

Music

The correct move Spotify has made in podcasts is to recognise that an industry over a decade old is still in its infancy (well, at 16 years since the podcast’s ‘birth’ let’s call it adolescence).…

Why Rishi Sunak is both wrong and right

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Oct 2020

Music

Earlier this week the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak suggested that creatives such as musicians who had seen income dry up during COVID-19 should consider retraining for the new ‘opportunities’…

Independent artist creativity and innovation in the age of COVID-19

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

30 Sep 2020

Music

independent artists

indie artists

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the music industry upside down in many ways but among the direct artists community there have also been signs of resilience and creativity in the face of adversity. For…

Why Kanye West is the modern-day Prince

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2020

Music

Not ‘prince’ in the Machiavellian sense of the term – though there is an argument for that too – but as in the artist formerly known as. Back in 1992, Prince fought his label Warner Bros to…

Quick Take: Apple One – Recession Buster

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Sep 2020

Video

Music

Games

Apple officially announced its long anticipated all-in-one content bundle: Apple One. $14.95 gets you Apple Music, Arcade, Apple TV+ and 50GB of iCloud storage. A family plan retails at $19.95 and a premier…

Is it time for the music industry to rethink how it wants to participate in the gaming opportunity?

Blog post by Karol Severin

4 Sep 2020

music industry

gaming

cross-entertainment strategy

Music consumption, particularly in the West, is commoditised. Transforming from the economies of ownership to access and the removal of production and distribution barriers led to the devaluation of, not…

What AWAL’s $100k artists mean for the streaming economy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Aug 2020

Music

Kobalt’s AWAL division announced that ‘hundreds of its artists have reached [the] annual streaming revenue threshold [of $100,000]’ . Make no mistake, this is major milestone for a record label…

The Song Economy Part 3 – creating in the song economy

Blog post by Keith Jopling

13 Aug 2020

Music

Strategy

Spotify

In ‘ The Song Economy is just getting started ’ I looked at how major catalogue songs such as Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’, Toto’s Africa and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is…

Apple to launch subscription bundle – we called it!

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Aug 2020

Video

Music

Games

In MIDiA’s 2020 Predictions report published in December 2019 we predicted that tech majors would start creating subscription bundles, with Apple leading the fray. Lo and behold, news has just come…

Streaming’s remuneration model cannot be ‘fixed’

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

12 Aug 2020

Music

streaming

remuneration

The #brokenrecord debate continues to build momentum and new models such as user-centric are getting increased attention, including at governmental level in the UK. But as Mat Dryhurst correctly observes…

Newsflash: UMG, WMG and Spotify may have a problem with Tencent

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Aug 2020

Music

tencent

Tencent Music Entertainment

UPDATE: A White House official confirmed to the LA Times that the announcement, at this stage, will not affect Tencent shareholdings of companies and clarified that the order only refers to transactions…

The MIDiA Research Podcast: Episode 1 – What Next for Tencent?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Aug 2020

Video

Music

Media & Marketing

We are excited to announce the first episode of the MIDiA Research podcast: What Next for Tencent? President Trump's executive orders concerning Bytedance and Tencent set the cat among the pigeons. In…

COVID-19 hit major labels much harder than it did Spotify

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Aug 2020

Music

streaming revenue

major label streaming revenue

COVID-19 was always going to have a significant impact on the music business, and with the Q2 results for all of the major music companies now in we can start to look at just how big that impact has been…

We are at a turning point for social music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Aug 2020

Music

Snap

snapchat

In recent days we have seen three major developments that, collectively, are a potential pivot point for social music: 1. TikTok close to a US-entity buyout by Microsoft to avoid potential…

Why Spotify needs Russia

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Jul 2020

Music

Spotify

Russia

Spotify’s delayed Russia launch finally happened this week . While it did not drive a stock price growth like the Josh Rogan deal did (the stock closed just 1 cent higher than the previous day’s close)…

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