Blog: Streaming economics

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Music creator economy: recalibration

Mark Mulligan

26 Sep 2024

Music creators

Creator Economy

music creator tools

The music creator economy has been long in the making but was thrust into the wider music industry’s limelight with the Covid lockdowns triggering a surge in new creators. As with any bubble, many creator...

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The state of the attention economy: why don’t fan-first platforms work?

Hanna Kahlert

5 Jun 2024

Fandom

taylor swift

Fans

The music industry is increasingly looking to fan-first solutions to drive its next era of growth (and solve artists’ financial woes), with all eyes towards the Taylor Swift model of fan frenzy. At the...

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Expect Warner Bros. Discovery’s forthcoming full year 2023 results to open up vital strategic choices

Tim Mulligan

20 Feb 2024

Warner Bros. Discovery

d2c

DTC

On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) will announce its full year 2023 financial results to investors in its fourth quarter 2023 earnings call . It is going to make for hard reading by both investors...

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Everyone hurts – the problem with ‘fixing’ streaming

Mark Mulligan

6 Feb 2023

Streaming Royalties

Streaming economics

Streaming Music

Everyone hurts – the problem with ‘fixing’ streaming Apple’s Q4 2022 revenue fall was further illustration that the global economic environment is affecting everyone. During such times, companies...

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Changing streaming’s royalty model will unlock a new music economy

Kriss Thakrar

12 Jul 2022

Music streaming

Streaming Royalties

SoundCloud

It has been an excellent year for the music industry as it enters a new era of growth . While streaming has been at the heart of this growth, there is an underlying tension between platforms and the artists...

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Music Catalogue and Streaming

Zach Fuller

18 May 2018

music catalogue

rhino entertainment

When it comes to the music industry’s transition towards streaming, how the model has worked in the past requires a reconsideration of perspective. This is because throughout the business’s entire...

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What Spotify Can Learn From The Roman Slave Trade

Mark Mulligan

13 Oct 2017

age of enlightenment

AWAL

Believe Digital

OK, you’re going to have to bearwith me on this one, but let me take you back to 2nd century Rome… The Roman Empire was at the peak of its powers. Its borders stretched from Scotland down to Syria...

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Spotify Earnings: Growth Comes At A Cost

Mark Mulligan

18 Jun 2017

Spotify earnings

Spotify financials

Spotify report

Spotify has published its much anticipated 2016 revenues. Because the company is under so much analytical scrutiny, there is little that is particularly surprising but there is still plenty we can learn...

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Why Netflix Can Turn A Profit But Spotify Cannot (Yet)

Mark Mulligan

19 Jan 2017

Content strategy

Netflix

Netflix originals

Having just celebrated its 10 th (streaming) birthday, Netflix followed up with a strong earnings release, announcing 5.8 million net new paid subscribers in Q4 , sending its share price up by 9%. This...

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Guvera's IPO Raises More Questions Than It Answers

Mark Mulligan

1 Jun 2016

Ad Supported

AMMA

Australia

Australian streaming music service Guvera has announced its long-anticipated IPO on Australia’s ASX exchange in July. Guvera has always been an intriguing component of the digital music landscape. On...

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