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Soundcloud, Amazon, Tidal: Streaming’s Other Runners

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Mark Mulligan

16 Jun 2016

Music Streaming

Apple, Spotify and YouTube have all been grabbing the streaming headlines of late, albeit for different reasons. While these companies will continue to set the pace over the next couple of years (again,...

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Free Report - Cross Border Listening: Borderless Hits And Curated Playlists

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Mark Mulligan

7 Jun 2016

On Fridayat Midem we launched our new report ‘Cross Border Listening: Borderless Hits And Curated Playlists’. MIDiA produced this report in conjunction with Midem for the 50th anniversary event and...

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The 2 Spotify Charts You Need To See

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Mark Mulligan

25 May 2016

Music Streaming

Tuesday’s media scrum around Spotify’s financials illustrate that whatever ground Apple and Tidal may have made in recent months, Spotify clearly remains the poster child / bellwether for streaming....

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Chart Of The Week: Music Aficionados

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Mark Mulligan

16 May 2016

Chart Of The Week

consumer segmentation

Music Aficionados are consumers that spend above average time and money with music. They represent just 17% of all consumers but a whopping 61% of all recorded music spending. These consumers shape the...

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A High Tide Rises All Streaming Boats, For Now…

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Mark Mulligan

27 Apr 2016

Music Subscriptions

Against the backdrop of the first quarterly drop in revenue in 13 years and a sharp decline in China revenue, Apple Music at least had some good news in the shape of continued solid growth for Apple Music,...

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State Of The Streaming Nation

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Mark Mulligan

5 Apr 2016

emerging markets

We are proud to announce a landmark MIDiA report: State Of The Streaming Nation: A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market . If you are in any way involved with the streaming music...

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Don't Write Pandora Off Just Yet

Mark Mulligan

29 Mar 2016

Pandora has made the news again with founder Tim Westergren stepping up to the role of CEO, replacing Brain McAndrews. These are certainly uncertain times for Pandora, once the stand out success story...

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Chart Of The Week. Playlists 1, Albums 0 – How Streaming Is Changing Music Listening

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Mark Mulligan

21 Mar 2016

Chart Of The Week

Chart Of The Week

The album has been under assault ever since Napster first gave consumers the ability cherry pick their favourite tracks and leave the filler behind. Apple formalised the process with the iTunes Store and...

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Could Facebook Be About To Get Into Premium Video Content?

Tim Mulligan

9 Mar 2016

Last Thursday Variety reported that Facebook is considering bidding for the NFL streaming rights for Thursday night games. The National Football league is auctioning off the digital rights to stream 18...

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Quick Take: BBC Music App

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2016

The BBC has launched a music app called, well, BBC Music . Available only in the UK, this native music app is one step on a well considered path for the BBC as it tries to carve out a role for itself in...

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Chart Of The Week: Music Subscribers Vs Video Subscribers

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Mark Mulligan

29 Feb 2016

Chart Of The Week

music subscribers

2015 was a big year for streaming music but it was a bigger deal for streaming video, generating $16 billion in revenue compared to $4.5 billion for streaming music. (Both figures are retail values). The...

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Vevo Must Break The Mould When It Goes Premium

Mark Mulligan

18 Feb 2016

Vevo has long been in search of an identity. In fact you could make an argument that it has had an identity crisis since its inception as a music industry appendage/Trojan Horse superimposed on YouTube...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: The Steady Decline Of The CD Buyer

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Mark Mulligan

8 Feb 2016

Chart Of The Week

As much as we may be in the era of streaming, nearly half of recorded music revenue globally is still derived from physical sales, with the CD making up the vast majority of that. So, for all the understandable...

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YouTube Just Broke The Chart’s Back

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Mark Mulligan

3 Feb 2016

Or rather the music industry just broke the chart’s back with YouTube, although it doesn’t realise it yet. And here’s why… It is normal when switching between old and new worlds to use equivalents,...

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The Music Industry Is Forcing Consumers To Choose Between Buying a Lexus And Taking The Bus

Mark Mulligan

28 Jan 2016

It has been an eventful few days for the digital music market with developments such as the launch of a whole new breed of unlicensed Spotify clones using the APIs of Spotify and YouTub e, and with Spotify...

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Why Spotify Is Getting Into Video

Tim Mulligan

26 Jan 2016

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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Kakao Corp Turns MelOn Into A Full Stack Music Company

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Mark Mulligan

12 Jan 2016

Full Stack Music Company

Korean messaging app company Kakao Corp has acquired a 76.4% stake in South Korean entertainment company Loen Entertainment for $1.6 billion , valuing the company at $2 billion. Kakao operates the mobile...

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MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Download Buyers

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Mark Mulligan

16 Dec 2015

Data Point Of The Day

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 continues...

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

Mark Mulligan

8 Dec 2015

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...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Music Discovery

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Mark Mulligan

30 Nov 2015

Chart Of The Week

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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