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Why Spotify cannot afford to make it three out of three with podcasts

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Mark Mulligan

10 Feb 2022

It has been a couple of weeks that Spotify would be glad to forget – if it could. Although many of the arguments have been emotionally charged and the debate says as much about people’s political beliefs...

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Climate crisis awareness is entwined with entertainment behaviour

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Hanna Kahlert

2 Feb 2022

Media and Marketing

Audience Insight

Despite the barrage of high-profile news items featuring so far in 2022, the climate crisis remains the high-stakes backdrop to our global future. MIDiA Research recently fielded a survey asking about...

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Spotify chose audio over music, but bigger decisions lie ahead

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Mark Mulligan

27 Jan 2022

The symbolism behind Spotify’s support of Neil Young removing his music from the platform, rather than Joe Rogan’s podcast being removed for peddling vaccine misinformation was inescapable. For many,...

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Music and podcasts are competing for the same time

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Mark Mulligan

28 May 2021

Streaming Music

media consumption

The pandemic changed media consumption. Consumers acquired an extra 12% of entertainment time and though everything was up, some categories grew much faster than others. One of the biggest gainers was...

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The COVID bounce and the coming attention recession

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Mark Mulligan

19 Feb 2021

media consumption

entertainment consumption

2020 was by any measure a unique year in modern times. While the societal impact of the pandemic was, and continues to be, horrific, for the entertainment industries it was a year of plenty. At the start...

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Recovery Economics | Bounce Forward not Back

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Mark Mulligan

28 May 2020

COVID-19 social distancing measures caused unprecedented dislocation to the entertainment economy. With a recession now a question of ‘how bad’ rather than ‘if’, entertainment companies have to...

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The COVID Bounce: How COVID-19 is Reshaping Entertainment Demand

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Mark Mulligan

27 Mar 2020

The economic disruption and social dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is not evenly distributed. Some business face catastrophe, while others thrive. Across the entertainment industries the same...

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MIDiA’s Podcast Research – A Response

Mark Mulligan

15 Jan 2020

midia podcast data

midia podcast tracker

Last week we published a blog post highlighting some initial findings from our inaugural quarterly podcast tracking data. The results show Spotify in a leading position as a standalone platform, Apple...

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Spotify AND Apple Lead Podcasts – It’s All Down to How You Measure It

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Mark Mulligan

10 Jan 2020

midia podcast data

midia podcast tracker

The podcast platform data from MIDiA’s Q4 tracker is in. These are the high-level findings (you can read more about our methodology here ): Apple still leads overall: A recent report showed that...

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Disney+ Recovers From Initial Blunder to Surpass 10 Million Sign Ups on Debut!

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Alistair Taylor

14 Nov 2019

21st Century Fox

all-encompassing offering

AppleTV+. Market saturation

Disney claims unexpected traffic on its newly-launched service was at fault for the buffering and technical issues of Disney+’s launch Tuesday . The issues highlight just how difficult it is transitioning...

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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) November 4th 2019

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Mark Mulligan

4 Nov 2019

Game of Thrones

Music manager shift: A new ‘Managing Expectations’ report from the MMF indicates the role of music managers is transforming. Headline: music managers are doing an ever wider and more complex range...

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Spotify Podcasts Q3 2019: Solid Start

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Mark Mulligan

29 Oct 2019

Word count is always a useful guide for how important something is to a company’s ambitions. It is therefore no small detail that Spotify’s Q3 2019 earnings release mentioned the word ‘podcast’...

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

Mark Mulligan

28 Oct 2019

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...

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The State of the Podcast Nation

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Hanna Kahlert

12 Aug 2019

Podcasts are an overnight success many years in the making. Even when taking a more cautious view, there are signs of a vibrant ecosystem emerging that is arguably the first entirely new media sector since...

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Spotify Takes Aim at Radio, Again

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Mark Mulligan

13 Jun 2019

ad supported streaming

ad supported streaming audio

Spotify has launched a radio-like feature set for premium subscribers in the US called Your Daily Drive. Although it is only positioned as a playlist, the content mix includes podcast news content...

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Luminary Media Bets Big on Ad-Free Podcasts

Georgia Meyer

24 Apr 2019

The long-awaited podcast subscription service, Luminary Media, went live on 23rd April 2019. The service has raised $100 million from investors with the aim of distributing ad-free exclusive podcast content...

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Spotify, the Decline of Playlists and the Rise of Podcasts

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Mark Mulligan

11 Apr 2019

curated playlists

The following is a small excerpt from MIDiA’s forthcoming third edition of its ‘landmark State of the Streaming Nation’ report. For more information about this report email stephen@midiaresearch.com...

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10 Trends That Will Reshape the Music Industry

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Mark Mulligan

3 Apr 2019

The IFPI has reported that global recorded music revenues have hit $19.1 billion, which means that MIDiA’sownestimatespublished in Marchwere within 1.6% of the actual results . This revenue growth story...

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Is Spotify’s Acquisition of Gimlet (the ‘HBO for audio’) the Beginning of the Audio Influencer Boom?

Georgia Meyer

7 Feb 2019

Audio ad engagement

Following six days of speculation, Spotify announced yesterdaythat it is acquiring Gimlet Media (comprising Gimlet – the production house, and Anchor – the production, distribution and monetisation...

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Podcasts: a Netflix Moment for Radio But Perhaps not the Future of Spotify

Mark Mulligan

6 Feb 2019

Wednesday was a busy day for Spotify: it reported above-expected subscriber growth, hitting 96 million paid subscribers, strong total user growth reaching207 million MAUs , improved margins and its first...

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