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A High Tide Rises All Streaming Boats, For Now…

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

27 Apr 2016

Against the backdrop of the first quarterly drop in revenue in 13 years and a sharp decline in China revenue, Apple Music at least had some good news in the shape of continued solid growth for Apple Music,…

State Of The Streaming Nation

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Apr 2016

apple music

Deezer

emerging markets

We are proud to announce a landmark MIDiA report: State Of The Streaming Nation: A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market . If you are in any way involved with the streaming music…

Don't Write Pandora Off Just Yet

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Mar 2016

apple music

iHeart Media

Music

Pandora has made the news again with founder Tim Westergren stepping up to the role of CEO, replacing Brain McAndrews. These are certainly uncertain times for Pandora, once the stand out success story…

Chart Of The Week. Playlists 1, Albums 0 – How Streaming Is Changing Music Listening

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

21 Mar 2016

albums

Chart Of The Week

The album has been under assault ever since Napster first gave consumers the ability cherry pick their favourite tracks and leave the filler behind. Apple formalised the process with the iTunes Store and…

Bad Data Is The Worm In The Apple For Streaming Music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2016

7Digital

Bad Data

data

2016 is proving to be tricky year for streaming rights. No sooner did it start to look like artists and labels were beginning to feel comfortable with streaming then along come a veritable flood of songwriter…

Music Piracy Hasn't Gone, It Has Merely Changed Its Spots

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2016

Chart Of The Week

mobile piracy

While the music industry slowly got its head around the brave new world of digital in the 2000’s piracy used to be the dominant focus of record labels and their trade associations. Now, with so much…

Quick Take: MTV Trax EE SIM Bundle

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Mar 2016

mtv trax

Music

There are two gaping holes in the digital music landscape: 1) a wide range of products for mass market consumers, 2) telco music bundles for pre-pay mobile customers. MusicQubed has just taken a stab at…

What Sony Music's Purchase Of Essential Music Says About The Future Of The Music Industry

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

2 Mar 2016

AWAL

Blockchain

consolidation

Independent label services company Essential Music & Marketing is no longer independent, having just been acquired by Sony Musi c and merged with Sony’s label services division Red to create a new…

Quick Take: BBC Music App

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2016

BBC

BBC Music

BBC Music App

The BBC has launched a music app called, well, BBC Music . Available only in the UK, this native music app is one step on a well considered path for the BBC as it tries to carve out a role for itself in…

Chart Of The Week: Music Subscribers Vs Video Subscribers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Feb 2016

Chart Of The Week

Music

music subscribers

2015 was a big year for streaming music but it was a bigger deal for streaming video, generating $16 billion in revenue compared to $4.5 billion for streaming music. (Both figures are retail values). The…

How Free Is Defining Digital Content Strategy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

24 Feb 2016

Add Revenue

buzzfeed

free

The internet’s ‘gift’ to media companies was free. And it’s the gift that just keeps giving. Record labels, newspapers, online publishers, TV companies, games publishers continue to grapple with…

Vevo Must Break The Mould When It Goes Premium

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Feb 2016

Erik Huggers

Freemium

Music

Vevo has long been in search of an identity. In fact you could make an argument that it has had an identity crisis since its inception as a music industry appendage/Trojan Horse superimposed on YouTube…

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2015

Innovation

midia predictions 2016

mobile apps

With 2015 rapidly drawing to a close we have taken the opportunity to present the big trends that MIDiA Research believes will shape digital content and media in 2016. The entire findings are available…

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