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What the comedian lawsuits against Pandora could mean for podcasts

Blog post by Annie Langston

14 Sep 2022

The mountain of comedians who are suing Pandora over copyright infringement continues to grow. In February, the estates of both Robin Williams and George Carlin filed lawsuits against Pandora, claiming...

Music Subscriber Market Shares Q1 2020

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

23 Jun 2020

streaming

music subscribers

music subscriber market shares

WWDC would have been a perfect opportunity for Apple to announce another streaming milestone for Apple Music. It didn’t but the good news is that MIDiA already have a figure for Apple Music, as part...

The IFPI Confirms 2019 was the Independents' Year for Streaming

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 May 2020

independent labels

majors

record labels

UPDATE: this post has been updated to correct an erroneous data point. Previously it stated that independent market share was 41%. It has been corrected to 29% Recently I wrote about how a little-known...

Music Subscriber Market Shares H1 2019

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Dec 2019

amazon music

Deezer

google

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...

NFL Adding Music to Its Playbook

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

4 Nov 2019

archived footage

audio content

curated playlists

The NFL continues expanding its reach with the news that it is providing both video and audio content to global streaming services Spotify and Tidal. This follows the NFL’s recently- announced partnerships...

Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) October 28th 2019

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Oct 2019

Ad Supported

AVOD

bbc news

SiriusXM, podcast marvel: SiriusXM has struck a multiyear deal with Marvel to create exclusive podcasts , illustrating that traditional radio companies still have the potential to be the major players...

Just Who Would Buy Universal Music?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Jan 2019

Access Industries

artists direct

Bolloré Group

Vivendi continues to look for a buyer for a portion of Universal Music . Though the process has been running officially since May 2018 , the transaction (or transactions) may not close until 2020. In many...

How YouTube’s Domination of Streaming Clips the Market’s Wings

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Jan 2019

Ad Supported

ad supported arpu

ad supported streaming

Firstly, happy new year to you all. Now on to the first post of 2019. The Article 13 debate that shaped so much of the latter part of 2018 will continue to play an important role throughout 2019 while...

Sirius XM Acquires Pandora: Greater Than The Sum Of Their Parts?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

24 Sep 2018

amazon prime music

Deezer

media acquisitions

In the latest example of media acquisitions, though one less likely to flood the headlines as Comcast’s purchase of Sky, Sirius XM has announced it will be purchasing streaming service Pandora for $3.5...

Mid-Year 2018 Streaming Market Shares

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Sep 2018

amazon music unlimited

amazon prime music

google

Music subscribers grew by 16% in the first half of 2018 to reach 229.5 million, up from 198.6 million at the end of 2017. Year-on-year the global subscriber base increased by 38%, adding 62.8 million subscribers....

Quick Take: Pandora and Snapchat Take a Swipe at Facebook

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Jun 2018

Innovation

Pandora

snapchat

No sooner had the ink dried on Facebook’s new social music offering, that Snapchat fights back with a Pandora partnership built on its ‘unFacebook’ privacy centred app developer platform Snapkit....

Free Report: Digital Music Is Streaming Forward

Blog post by Dara Jegede

16 Apr 2018

amazon prime music

apple music

bodak yellow

MIDiA is proud to partner with DiMA on its inaugural Streaming Forward Report. Digital distribution, andstreaming in particular, has been transforming music business in recent years. Although digital business...

Quick Take: Is Pandora Too Big to Fail for the US Streaming Economy?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

5 Feb 2018

music industry

Pandora

Spotify

A quick appraisal of the US music streaming space reveals some surprising distinctions in the market, particularly when compared to global trends. The US Streaming market is disproportionately ad-supported:...

This Is What Post-IPO Life Will Look Like For Spotify

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2017

IPO

netflix

Netflix share price

With a fair wind, Spotify’s long-anticipated public offering should happen before the end of Q2 2018 (and yes, probably a direct listing rather than an IPO but 'IPO' worked better in the title!) . The...

Pandora’s Loss Is Sirius XM’s Gain

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 Nov 2017

apple music

interactive radio

liberty acquisition

Pandora is in trouble, as explained by the consistently excellent Tim Ingham at Music Business Worldwide , after losing a billion dollars over the last four years and monthly active users (MAU) fell to...

Announcing MIDiA’s Streaming Services Market Shares Report

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Nov 2017

7Digital

Amazon

amazon music unlimited

As the streaming music market matures, the bar is continually raised for the quality of data required, both in terms of granularity and accuracy. At MIDiA we have worked hard to earn a reputation for high-quality,...

Quick Take: Tesla’s Streaming Ambition

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

23 Jun 2017

auto

electric cars

elon musk

Reports have emerged that Tesla is looking to build its own streaming music service. In practice, this will most likely be a case of Tesla building a streaming service that operates solely for Tesla users,...

Announcing MIDiA’s State Of The Streaming Nation 2 Report

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Jun 2017

7Digital

Alibaba

Amazon

2016 was the year that streaming turned the recorded music business into a good news story, with revenue growth so strong that it drove nearly a billion dollars of total growth. Leading streaming services...

Facebook Is Finally Ready To Become A Media Company

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

10 Nov 2016

esports

facebook

Innovation

Facebook beat estimates with its latest earnings but announced that ad revenues would likely slow in 2017 as the digital ad market feels the pinch of advertiser budgets lagging the shift in user behaviour....

How Spotify Can Become A Next Generation “Label”

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

21 Oct 2016

Access Industries

Amazon

Apple

One of the themes my MIDiA colleague Tim Mulligan (the name’s no coincidence, he’s my brother too!) has been developing over in our online video research is that of next generation TV operators. With...

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