Blog: voice

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How Clubhouse missed its Twitter, erm X, Spaces opportunity

Annie Langston

13 Sep 2023

Clubhouse

Twitter

X

The gone and (almost) forgotten live audio app Clubhouse is trying for a revival. Clubhouse kicked off during the Covid-19 lockdowns, closing 2021 with a $4 billion valuation and inspiring major platforms,...

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Voice Control: Smartphones, In-Home Speakers, and the Digital Attention Economy

Hanna Kahlert

24 Apr 2019

Digital economy

in-home

Media

This article is derived from MIDiA’s Voice Market and Behaviour Trends Overview report. The use of voice command continues to be niche, with overall consumer penetration at a mere 9%. Predominantly that...

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The Meta Trends that Will Shape 2019

Mark Mulligan

16 Nov 2018

2019 forecast

2019 tech and media predictions

AI

MIDiA has just published its annual predictions report . Here are a few highlights. 2018 was another year of change, disruption and transformation across media and technology. Although hyped technologies...

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The Three Eras Of Paid Streaming

Mark Mulligan

28 Jul 2017

3 ages of streaming

3 eras of streaming

3 phases of streaming

Streaming has driven such a revenue renaissance within the major record labels that the financial markets are now falling over themselves to work out where they can invest in the market, and indeed whether...

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