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Why Spotify Is Getting Into Video

Tim Mulligan

26 Jan 2016

Online video

short form video

This week looks set to herald the launch of video content on Spotify’s Android app with a video enabling update coming to the service’s iOS app coming later. Initially the video viewing functionality...

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Why P2P Is Still The Big Deal For TV That It Used To Be For Music

Mark Mulligan

6 Jan 2016

Amazon Prime

bittorrent

HBO

Piracy tracking website Torrent Freak released the chart of the 10 most downloaded TV shows on BitTorrent in 2015 . There are few surprises. The most successful TVs shows are also the most pirated TV shows....

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MIDiA Datapoint Of The Day: Mobile Music Piracy

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...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Music Discovery

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 views...

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Quick Take: Apple Music Comes To Android

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...

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Quick Take: Facebook Music Stories

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 Spotify...

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Pandora’s Serial Deal Shows That Music Alone Is No Longer Enough

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...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Listening Habits Of Streaming Music Consumers

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...

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Sonos, Google And The Outlook For Connected Home Audio

Mark Mulligan

29 Sep 2015

chromecast

Chromecast Audio

connected home audio

There were two big announcements today in the connected home audio space. Sonos announced its new flagship Play5 speaker while Google launched its Chromecast audio , a streaming audio dongle that plugs...

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Fighting Free With Free: How Youtube Usurped BitTorrent

Mark Mulligan

13 May 2015

bittorrent

free music

Freemium

MIDiA Research has published a new report: 'Fighting Free With Free: How YouTube Usurped BitTorrent'. What follows are a few highlights from it. The full report and its accompanying datasets are available...

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