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MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Download Buyers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Dec 2015

The standout sales success of Adele over recent week has many permutations, not least of which is the keen reminder that many millions of people still buy downloads and CDs. The streaming transition…

Quick Take: Taylor Swift, Apple Music And The Search For Exclusives

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2015

adele

apple music

BBC

Taylor Swift just announced that Apple Music will be the exclusive streaming partner of her latest live film ‘The 1989 World Tour Live’ which includes alongside footage of the performances, back stage…

Quick Take: Vevo Buys ShowYou But Will It Seize The Opportunity?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Dec 2015

Freemium

Music

music streaming

Vevo has acquired video curation/discovery platform ShowYou . There’s a lot of talk about how this could preface a move into subscriptions for Vevo, given that ShowYou launched subscription functionality…

MIDiA Datapoint Of The Day: Mobile Music Piracy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2015

app stores

Apple

Data Point Of The Day

One thing you'll often hear cited in defence of streaming is that it has helped kill piracy. On the surface that might be seem to be true given that music P2P penetration is down. But all is not as it…

Quick Take: Believe Digital Licenses QQ Music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Dec 2015

Believe Digital

celcom

emerging markets

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,…

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